Wheat Marketing Center Staff / Kin Wong, Laboratory Assistant
Kin Wong came back to WMC in June of 2017 as a Laboratory Assistant with responsibility for wheat flour milling, analytical testing, and TCK Testing. Kin held a similar position at WMC from 1997 to 2000. From WMC, he went to work for Intel as a manufacturing technician in Hillsboro, OR and retired from there in 2017.
Kin started his career at Sanwa Noodle in California as a machine operator and moved to Portland in 1980 to work for Hall Lab as a quality assurance technician. He attended Mount Hood Community College and graduated with an Associate’s Degree in Food Science with certification in Cannery Food Processing. He then attended Portland State University and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology. Kin speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and Vietnamese fluently. He also speaks limited Korean and Spanish.