Ray Cirimele (ray@circuittechnology.com) is an international speaker in electronics manufacturing, has published many articles, and has over twenty years experience in the industry performing electronics maintenance, manufacturing, PCB fabrication, rework and repair, sales and training. Ray has worked for the Department of Defense (DOD) at the China Lake Naval weapons Center. While there, Ray performed training, audits and reviews of military weapons systems. Ray is also the inventor of several solder rework products.

With a significant background in the DOD solder training programs, Ray subsequently became one of the first IPC Master Instructors. He is a Master Instructor for IPC A-610C, J-STD-001 and 7711/7721. Ray's previous jobs include Northrop/Grumman, U.S. Robotics/3Com, Electronics Manufacturing Productivity Facility (EMPF), Enthone-OMI, Diversified Systems, and BEST, Inc. Ray is an active member of the IPC and has received several awards for his involvement on IPC training videos as technical content advisor. He is also a committee member for the IPC A-610, IPC-7711/7721, and J-STD-001. Ray's educational background includes a Bachelor of Technical Education from National University in San Diego.