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Growth in traffic solutions [Gloucestershire Echo (England)](Gloucestershire Echo (England) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) CHELTENHAM engineering firm AGD Systems, which designs and manufactures intelligent radar detection systems for the global traffic management industry, has appointed four key new members of staff. The appointments are intended to strengthen its team as business continues to expand significantly. The firm, which continues to see its strategic business grow in areas of highways monitoring, speed enforcement and urban traffic control, predicts export revenue will rise by 20 per cent to 40 per cent in 2016 as overseas interest in its radar detection systems increases in the Middle East, South Korea, Taiwan and Brazil. In the commercial department, Stephen Trinder joins as AGD's new commercial manager, responsible for managing major clients in the core urban traffic control sector, including local and city authority partners. He has client-facing experience of delivering innovative solutions to strategic customers and is a qualified PRINCE2 (Projects in Controlled Environments) practitioner. He will work closely with fellow AGD commercial manager Greg Baker. Carl Jarvis has been appointed commercial engineer to provide technical installation and client training support for AGD's new range of highways monitoring and enforcement radars. Mr Jarvis has several years' experience working on projects for the Highways Agency to install above-ground radar solutions on the UK's motorway network. He will work closely with AGD's business development manager Oliver Bain and the engineering team to facilitate product trials and installations for highway monitoring and incident detection in the UK and inter nationally. Based in AGD's new, state-of-the-art Pounds 1 million research and development centre, which opened last year, will be two new appointees. Max Denning has joined AGD on a one-year engineering internship before studying computer science at the University of Reading and Anurag Lalithambikai will be responsible for systems requirement analysis, hardware design, firmware development and software design. He has a BEng in electronics and instrumentation engineering and an MSc in advanced IT from the University of South Wales. Pete Hutchinson, managing director of AGD Systems, said: "The strength of our business is down to the quality, talents and calibre of our staff. "We are committed to designing, developing and delivering the world's most advanced Intelligent radar detection systems from our base here in Gloucestershire and in order to do that, we need to work with the best people in the business. "That's why we are expanding our commercial and engineering teams so that we continue to stay at the very forefront of the worldwide traffic management industry." AGD Systems is an award-winning family-run business which has been operating for over 20 years. It has twice won the Queens Award for Enterprise for its innovation and was recently recognised with a Silver Award in the International Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Excellence Awards 2014. (c) 2014 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. |