Board Member Bios
Chair — Steve Rosenblum
Steve.Rosenblum@uop.com
Steve Rosenblum is a Senior Applications Specialist at UOP where he supports all simulation
products at UOP and creates tools to help UOP engineering with its work processes. He has
been a member of AIChE since 1977. He has been active in the Chicago section since 2005
where he took on the role as membership chairman. Steve has a Bachelor of Science degree in
Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and a Masters of Science degree in Chemical
Engineering from Northeastern University. Steve previously worked for Badger Engineering as a
design engineer, and ABB Simcon as a dynamic simulation and optimization engineer prior to
joining UOP in 1997.
Chair Elect — Steve Schade
sschade@ambitech.com
Steve Schade is a Senior Engineer at Ambitech Engineering, which he joined in 2005, working
primarily on projects for clients in the petroleum industry. Previously he was employed at UOP,
specializing in aromatics processes. Earlier in his career he was involved in process develop-
ment work with IGT, Searle, and USG. Steve has BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering
from the University of Missouri at Rolla (now Missouri University of Science & Technology). He
has been active on the AIChE section Student Outreach committee, giving presentations at
schools and helping prepare displays for Chemistry Day and Engineers Week.
Vice-Chair Program — Peter Hereña
peter.herena@kenexis.com
Mr. Hereña has ten years of experience in the design and installation of control systems and the implementation of safety instrumented systems for the process industries. Mr. Hereña is a Senior Engineer at Kenexis and responsible for facilitating HAZOP and SIL Selection. Additionally, he has extensive experience in engineered safeguard design basis development and verification/ validation projects. Kenexis is a consulting company that provides services for all phases of the safety lifecycle.
Mr. Hereña began his career with UOP, a licensor of process units to the petroleum and petrochemical industries, where he performed field verification of control systems at customer sites and designed and managed development of custom control projects. In 1997 he graduated with B.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.
Mr. Hereña is very involved in the International Society of Automation (ISA) and participates on ISA standards committees, including SP 84 for safety instrumented systems and SP 18 for alarm systems. He also serves as a co-chair in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) National Spring Meeting content coordinator.
Treasurer — Mike Buettner
Mike.Buettner@alfalaval.com
Mike Buettner is a Sales and Market Development Manager for the Midwest in Alfa Laval’s
Energy and Industrial group. He holds a BSChE from Michigan Technological University and an
MBA focused on Operations from the University of Minnesota. Mike has over 15 years of
experience in the process industry, 10 of those years have been in the oil refining industry. For
the past 5 years, he has brought engineered solutions to that same customer base.
Mike has been a member of AIChE in the past, and recently become active in the Chicago chapter. He looks forward to meeting all of the members and continuing the success this chapter has seen in recent years.
The majority of Mike’s free time is spent on the demands of trying to raise three very active children in Yorkville.
Secretary — Tom King
Stephen.King@UOP.com
Tom King has been with UOP since January 2007 and is currently working as a Design Engineer
in the Olefins, Detergents, and Alkylation Engineering Center at UOP/Honeywell (Des Plaines IL).
Tom previously worked as a Development Engineer in the Petrochemicals Operations Technical Support
Group at UOP.
Tom has a BS in Chemical Engineering, Molecular Biology, and Biochemistry from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. Tom also has an MS in Bioengineering and an MS in Chemical
Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Prior to attending graduate school, Tom worked as a Research Associate at Pierce Biotechnology,
Inc. (Rockford IL). While attending graduate school at UIC, Tom worked as a Research Assistant
for UIC Research Resources Center and Molecular Biology Consortium in the Chicago Technology Park.
Tom is an active member of AIChE and was previously Chair, Vice-Chair and Past Chair for the National Young Professionals Advisory Board of AIChE for 2006-2010. Tom was on the Founding Committee of the YPAB Chicago Group in 2004-2006 and was the Chicago Local Section Publicity Co-Chair for 2005-06.
Director at Large — Annette Johnston
Annette.Johnston@abbott.com
Director at Large — Dennis O’Brien
<Dennis.O’Brien@jacobs.com>
Dennis O’Brien is a Group Manager with Jacobs Consultancy in Chicago. He received a BS in
Chemical Engineering from Tulsa University and an MBA from Roosevelt University. Chicago
AIChE past activities include Secretary, Treasurer and Chair of the Chicago section He is also
has been involved in the planning of a number of the Spring and Fall section symposia. National activities include serving as a director of F&PD and he is currently Spring 2009 co-MPC
and treasurer of F&PD. He is a Fellow of the institute.
Director at Large — Bill Glogowski
glogowwk@middough.com
Bill Glogowski is a Process Engineer with Middough in Oak Brook, joining in 2006 soon after receiving a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago and passing the fundamentals of engineering exam. In his current position, he is involved in process design in industries such as refining, consumer products, and pharmaceuticals. He was an active member in the student AICHE chapter at UIC and is now an active participant in the Section’s Young Professional Advisory Board.
Past Chair — Reza Mostofi
Reza.Mostofi@uop.com
Reza Mostofi is a chemical engineer at UOP’s mechanical technology team where he is involved
in trouble shooting and new process development using computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
Before joining UOP, Reza has worked as a post-doc at Illinois Institute of Technology where he
also obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering 2002 and his MS in 1998.
He received his BS in ChE in 1989 from Tehran Polytechnic University, Iran. He is currently
teaching part time in one of the Chicago City Colleges.
Reza has been a member of AIChE since 1996 and has been an active member of the Chicago local section from 2005. He has served as AIChE national meeting’s session chair and he is recently elected as the vice chair of one of the AIChE particle technology forum subgroups.