Brad Lirette—Brad Lirette graduated from the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department in May, 2001. He started with BP at the Texas City Refinery as a Process Engineer. He has worked for three years on a Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit and then was sent to work for two months in the Netherlands. Brad is currently the lead recruiter for BP at the University of Houston. His position now is with the Economics and Scheduling Group. Brad’s job consists of scheduling and planning all refinery feed and product streams that are butane and lighter.
Brad’s son often accompanies him to UH events.

Isabel Cristina Abazajian—Cristina was hired at AMOCO and worked in technical services and operations at both the refinery and the chemical plant. She then worked at Sterling Chemical for a couple of years and later went back to Amoco into process controls. Cristina is now an Advanced Process Control Engineer with BP working mostly with Cracking and Alkylation Units in Dynamic Matrix Controllers.
Cristina graduated with her B.S. Degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Houston in December, 1988 as Cristina Parra. She married Armen Abazajian, who graduated in December, 1986 with a B.S. Degree in Chemical Engineering also at the University of Houston. They have three children.

Carlos Saldana—Carlos Saldana graduated from the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department in May, 1995. He began his career with DuPont in 1997 as an Assistant to Operations Engineer for the Benlate process. Carlos has held the roles of Process Supervisor and Fluorproducts Operations Engineer for the Benlate. He is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt.

Greg Rupert—After Greg graduated from the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department in 1989; he went to work for Professor Frank Worley’s son Frank Worley, junior. He is currently employed at the DuPont, La Porte Plant.

Philip Nguyen—Philip Nguyen left Vietnam in 1983 as a refugee. He arrived in Houston in 1984. Philip graduated from the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department in 1995. After graduation, he joined Fluor’s Process Engineering Group. He has worked on a number of world scale Upstream Oil & Gas projects covering Offshore/Onshore Production Facilities and Floating Production Storage Off-loading (FPSO) with Arctic condition designs.

Curll Dowden—Curll C. Dowden, born and raised in Grenada, West Indies recently graduated from the Chemical Engineering Department  in May, 2004. He is currently employed by Fluor as a Process Specialty Engineer. Curll started his professional development as an ISIP Intern with Fluor in June 2001. Curll also interned with a large upstream company in the Gulf of Mexico during the summer of 2003. Curll is working on the design of a parallel refinery to accompany an existing major Gulf Coast refinery. This project will add 150,000 barrels per day of refining capacity to the U.S. market. In addition Curll is working on a project to build a 600,000 barrel per day grass roots refinery in Kuwait.