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The Team

Jim Howland,

Managing Director

Jim’s introduction to the RF test and measurement field began in high school, when he worked during summer vacations for his father’s engineering business. Ray Howland founded The Howland Company in 1975, and Jim’s first assignments included compiling path profile data for microwave point-to-point transmission networks and helping conduct EMI surveys at communication sites around the country. After a few years of college and grad school, he returned to The Howland Company in 1992 to assist with a technical consulting contract with Army Corps of Engineers legal staff at Redstone Arsenal. One thing led to another, and Jim remained at The Howland Company for 31 years.

As a resident project manager on a number of commercial and military facility projects, his responsibilities included harmonizing the work of installation technicians and subcontractors with the building trades working alongside us, keeping the client and the facility construction GC apprised of our progress, coordinating the delivery and on-site storage of system components and materials, and representing The Howland Company in project management meetings with the client and their other contractors.

He performed or supervised RF shield testing for many of our own turnkey Over-the-Air test systems as well as for architecturally integrated facility shielding and very large, welded steel chambers for DoD Installed System Test Facilities. He has built and operated an NRL arch measurement system used for 100% QA screening of absorber material for large anechoic chambers. He wrote or edited the shielding and anechoic sections of construction specifications for the ACETEF Large Anechoic Chamber at Patuxent River, the Army’s Electromagnetic Vulnerability Assessment Facility (EMVAF) at White Sands, and several other commercial, military, and government facilities. Other duties included technical writing, business development, and FARS/DFARS, ITAR, and export license compliance.

Ivan Brown,

Senior Site Supervisor, Operations & Logistics Manager

Mr. Brown attended the University of Georgia and is a US Army veteran. He has over fifteen years’ experience in local law enforcement, rising to the rank of Captain in a municipal police department in North Carolina. He deployed to Afghanistan under contract to the US State Department, and was an NRC-certified Nuclear Security Officer III, responsible for physical protection of nuclear materials and facilities. His experience and expertise in managing the smooth execution of complex and challenging tasks, under circumstances we certainly hope he will not encounter in his new role at Howland & Lawrence, will be a very significant addition to our capabilities as we continue to expand.

Lawrence Pihera,

Head of Operations

Lawrence has been working in the antenna measurement field for over fifteen years. He has supervised the installation of dozens of shielded anechoic chambers at sites across the USA as well as in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He also assembled, fine-tuned, and tested high-precision heavy-duty antenna positioners. He has designed and built custom fixtures and equipment for unique test & measurement requirements. He managed the on-site assembly of RF field probe systems at Radar Cross Section (RCS) measurement facilities in Fort Worth, Texas; Cameri, Italy; and Komaki, Japan. Lawrence also operated these systems in data acquisition mode to permit evaluation and comparison of RCS facilities used to measure the radar signature of the most advanced fighter aircraft flying today. And he assisted in the development of efficient procedures and techniques for evaluation of installed anechoic material at the Benefield Anechoic Facility (BAF) at Edwards AFB.

Before entering the RF test facility field, Lawrence worked many years as a land surveyor, a building and facility equipment maintenance technician, and electric motor repairman. He has owned a number of small business ventures. What these roles have in common is that they benefit from Lawrence’s capacity for keen attention to detail and his instinctive gift for precision, even when operating heavy equipment, and his personal investment of his own reputation in every job he takes on.

Stuart Kron,

Lead RF Engineer & West Coast Service Manager

Stu has been serving the antenna measurement community since the 1980s, performing design, production, test, integration, and engineering management roles at Antenna Research Associates, Sunol Sciences Corporation, SunAR RF Motion, and now Howland & Lawrence.

Stu brings not only years of hands-on experience to the team, he also brings a quick-response service and support capability to meet the needs of our West Coast customer base.

Stu may have only recently joined our team, but he's no stranger--for over a decade we have been using Stu's LPA design as a broadband calibration standard to allow users of our turnkey OTA test systems to complete an accurate, reliable system cal in a fraction of the time other methods require.

And after spending some time working alongside Stu at customer sites, we're confident the experience and expertise, the persistent focus on the customer's objectives, and his easygoing manner will be tremendous additions to the Howland & Lawrence team.

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