News: XRF Systems, Applications, People

March, 2023 – Federico Mazzei, co-founder, with Pasquale Francella, of Bowman Europe, is now also Regional Product Manager for Europe and the UK. Working with Jeff Korpus, Kelly Jiang and the Applications Teams, the goal is to enable Bowman’s new Archer software with unique capabilities for solution analysis. The widely-anticipated software release is scheduled for late March.

When the teams complete their work, customers will not only be able to use one instrument for precise coating thickness and solution analysis, but will benefit as well from multiple element correction in each solution analysis – a capability unique in the industry. Most notably, the software will yield highly precise results regardless of the variable density that occurs during the bath’s service life. The feature is expected to provide a significant competitive advantage for P Series XRFs – the best-selling systems in Europe – as well as B and G Series instruments.

March, 2023 – Bowman CEO and partner Tom Leone (far left) and CTO and Partner Jun Choi (far right) congratulate three headquarters associates on their landmark anniversaries: Senior Support Engineer Raoul Motiu – 9 years; Manufacturing Engineer Hugo Garcia – 7 years, and Production Manager Xavier Rodriguez -14 years.

January, 2023 – During APEX, Kelly Scanlon, IPC’s Lead Sustainability Strategist, recognized Bowman’s “green practices,” which include AI/AR tools that allowed attendees to compare precision benchtop XRF systems without the environmental cost of shipping tons of equipment across the country. Ryan Ahern, Jeff Korpus, Rob Coleman and Tom Leone fielded questions and demo’d the technology at the Bowman booth, January 24-26 in San Diego.

November, 2022 – Bowman has announced Jeff Korpus as its new Global Product Manager.

The position has a broad portfolio, which includes research, development and marketing for the 8 XRF systems in the Bowman suite, as well as XRF reference standards. Korpus is uniquely qualified for the post, according to CTO Jun Choi, having been, most recently, Manager of Bowman’s Standards Business Unit.

Prior to that, Korpus was a Project Manager and Support Engineer, teaming with engineers and programmers to develop new hardware and software functionalities. Korpus also authored Bowman’s Quality System for ISO17025

November, 2022 – Bowman is pleased to announce the hiring of Daniel Gilmore as Software Developer. Gilmore is a graduate of Purdue University, with a B.S. in Computer Engineering.

His most recent work experience was software development for Epic Systems (Madison, WI) where he worked with machine learning, natural language processing, and NoSQL databases to better manage hospital administration and improve patient care.

At Bowman, he will team with Kelly Jiang to maximize the long-term stability of Bowman’s new software release and enable it to perform background calculations simultaneously with measurement tasks. He will also work on optimizing firmware and the development of new instrument functionalities.