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The Bare (Board) Truth
Column from: Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson has been in the industry for 32 years. He started out in Stockton, California in 1980 as a driller and photo tech right out of high school. He moved to Santa Clara soon thereafter and worked for Multiplex, which became ACI West. In 1993, he relocated to the Pacific Northwest, where he worked for Pacific Circuits, which became TTM, and Praegitzer Industries. He worked with Prototron from 1996–2020 and is now a senior PCB technologist/ Engineering Manager at Out of the Box Manufacturing.
In his free time, Mark is an avid pilot, with a fondness for the aircraft of yesteryear. Mark says, "I have been privileged to fly many biplanes from the 1930s and 1940s, including Fleets, Stearmans, and N3Ns."