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May 24, 2017 | UyemuraEstimated reading time: Less than a minute
Jose Alonzo Garcia is Uyemura’s new technical service engineer for a key territory that includes Northern California, Washington, and Oregon. The appointment was formalized May 8th by Uyemura Vice President Don Gudeczauskas.
Garcia’s responsibilities include process troubleshooting, line audits, chemical installations and assisting customers with root cause analysis.
Garcia holds a Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering from San Jose State University. Most recently, he was with Streamline Circuits, a manufacturer of rigid, rigid-flex, and multilayer PCBs, where he applied SPC principles to optimize electroplating processes. In late 2016, Garcia helped qualify a new gold bath in the company’s ENIG line. The new line was TAM-55, an advanced, low-acidity immersion gold that protects the solderability of the electroless nickel in an ENIG deposit.
Garcia has a special interest in kinetics and reactor design, FMEA, and environmental management.
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