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STAFF CONTACT INFORMATION

PUBLISHING & EDITORIAL STAFF

Bob Miodonski, publisher of PM Engineer and special projects director for BNP Media’s Plumbing Division, joined the staff in August 2007. He had been both publisher and editorial director of Contractor Magazine for the past five years, and chief editor since 1994.

At points in his journalistic career, Miodonski served as sister publication Supply House Times’ managing editor and then editorial director. He worked with George Zebrowski, Jim Olsztynski and Scott Franz at the former Horton Publishing Co., where both Supply House Times and Plumbing & Mechanical were started.

Miodonski is a graduate of Vanderbilt University. He also holds a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where he served on the graduate school faculty as a part-time instructor.

Bob Miodonski
Publisher & Special Projects Director
Michigan & Minnesota Advertising Sales
1050 IL Route 83, Suite 200
Bensenville, IL 60106-1096
Phone: 630/694-4007
Fax: 248/502-1023
E-mail: miodonskib@bnpmedia.com

Julius Ballanco, P.E., is editorial director of PM Engineer. He is also president of J.B. Engineering and Code Consulting, P.C., a firm specializing in code and standard consulting in the areas of life safety, fire protection, plumbing and mechanical engineering.

Before establishing his firm, he was head of plumbing and mechanical engineering for BOCA International. He is a well-known lecturer, having instructed at more than 1,000 seminars. He serves on many national standards committees, including ANSI/ASME, NSF and ASSE. Currently, he is the president of the American Society of Plumbing Engineers.

A graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology, he is both a Registered Professional Engineer and a Licensed Master Plumber.

Julius Ballanco
Editorial Director
Phone: 219/922-6171
E-mail: jbengineer@aol.com

Jim Olsztynski is PM Engineer’s consulting editor. He is the founding editor and editorial director of Plumbing & Mechanical, as well as winner of numerous awards for editorial excellence. He has been associated with the plumbing industry since 1977 and is a tireless crusader for the interests of plumbing contractors.

He was one of the industry spokesmen chosen to appear on the History Channel’s "Arteries of Civilization" program on plumbing history, adapted from Plumbing & Mechanical’s 10-year "History of Plumbing" serial features.

Olsztynski is also editor of Supply House Times.

Jim Olsztynski
Consulting Editor
1050 IL Route 83, Suite 200
Bensenville, IL 60106-1096
Phone: 630/694-4006
Fax: 248/502-1007
E-mail: olsztynskij@bnpmedia.com

Jim Camillo is PM Engineer’s editor. Before joining PME, Camillo was the editor of Milling Journal, a trade journal for flour millers. He has been with BNP Media since 2006.

Camillo also has held editorial positions with Putman Media, Hanley-Wood, Consumer’s Digest, and The National Provisioner.

He has an English degree from DePaul University.

Jim Camillo
Editor
1050 IL Route 83, Suite 200
Bensenville, IL 60106-1096
Phone: 630/694-4011
Fax: 248/283-6547
E-mail: camilloj@bnpmedia.com

Suzette Rubio is the online editor and new products editor for PM Engineer, Supply House Times and Plumbing & Mechanical. She joined the staff in the summer of 2005 as Supply House Times’ associate editor.

Her experience includes a stint as assistant editor at Mintel International, where she wrote and edited articles for New Product News and GNPD (Global New Products Database). She has also worked on In the Field, a publication of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

Suzette Rubio
Plumbing Group Online Editor & New Products Editor
1050 IL Route 83, Suite 200
Bensenville, IL 60106-1096
Phone: 630/694-4394
Fax: 248/502-1000
E-mail: rubios@bnpmedia.com

Mark Bromann is a contributing editor for PM Engineer.

Mark Bromann
Contributing Editor
Fire protection
Phone: 630/690-4200
Fax: 630/690-3966

John Siegenthaler is a contributing editor for PM Engineer.

John Siegenthaler
Contributing Editor
Hydronic heating
Phone: 315/865-8903
E-mail: john@hydronicpros.com

Scott Hilling is the senior art director for two BNP Media magazines: PM Engineer and Roofing Contractor. Before joining BNP, he worked for a production house in Troy, Mich., and several Michigan-based ad agencies that had accounts with K-Mart, Chevrolet and Pontiac.

Hilling graduated from the University of Michigan-Dearborn with a B.F.A. in design.

Scott Hilling
Senior Art Director
2401 W. Beaver Rd., Suite 700
Troy, MI 48084
Phone: 248/244-1276
Fax: 248/502-2055
E-mail: hillings@bnpmedia.com

Lisa Rahimpour is the senior production manager for PM Engineer, as well as its sister publication, Plumbing & Mechanical. She previously worked as the production manager for Service & Contracting, also published by BNP Media. She has been with BNP since 1991.

Rahimpour attended Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C.

Lisa Rahimpour
Senior Production Manager
891 Tyrone Ave.
Waterford, MI 48328
Phone: 248/683-2728
Fax: 248/244-3910
E-mail: rahimpourl@bnpmedia.com

ADVERTISING & SALES STAFF

George Zebrowski, group publisher of PM Engineer, is a 30+-year veteran of the plumbing-heating industry trade press. Zebrowski held several editorial positions on Contractor Magazine, becoming editor-in-chief in 1983. Soon thereafter he joined Horton Publishing and helped in the launch of PME’s sister publication, Plumbing & Mechanical, in 1984.

Zebrowski became the publisher of PME in January 1995 with its first issue. He was promoted to group publisher in 1998. He handles advertising sales for the Northeast.

He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts.

George Zebrowski
Group Publisher
Northeast Advertising Sales
P.O. Box 157
Windsor, MA 01270
Phone: 413/684-1447
Fax: 248/502-2119
E-mail: zebrowskig@bnpmedia.com

Paul DeGrandis is an advertising sales representative covering the West, Southwest and Western Canada for PM Engineer, Plumbing & Mechanical and Supply House Times.

Paul DeGrandis
Advertising Sales Representative
West, Southwest & Western Canada
1213 Wilmette Ave., Suite 210
Wilmette, IL 60091
Phone: 847/920-9510
Fax: 847/920-9206
E-mail: pauld@accelmediasolutions.com

Jean Eslick is the regional sales manager handling Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Eastern Canada for PM Engineer, Plumbing & Mechanical, and Supply House Times.

After receiving a bachelor’s degree from Elmhurst College, Eslick started her career at MTI Graphics, an advertising agency that specialized in industrial accounts. She was an account manager and media buyer for more than five years.

She had been a regional sales manager for METAL CENTER NEWS magazine — a monthly trade publication that reaches the metal service industry — for 10 years.

Jean Eslick
Regional Sales Manager
Illinois, Indiana, Southeast & Eastern Canada
1050 IL Route 83, Suite 200
Bensenville, IL 60106-1096
Phone: 630/694-4008
Fax: 248/786-1386
E-mail: eslickj@bnpmedia.com

Scott Franz is the regional sales manager for Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia, plus western New York and western Pennsylvania. He is also publisher of sister publication Supply House Times.

He is a 24-year veteran of the magazine business and has worked with Supply House Times for 18 years. He began his career in 1983 working for United Color Press, former printer of Supply House Times.

Scott Franz
Regional Sales Manager
Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia, Western New York & Western Pennsylvania
251 W. Central Ave. #279
Springboro, OH 45066
Phone: 937/748-9975
Fax: 248/502-2083
E-mail: franzs@bnpmedia.com

Roy Wagner Jr. is an advertising sales representative covering the Mid-Atlantic states for PM Engineer, Plumbing & Mechanical and Supply House Times.

Roy Wagner Jr.
Advertising Sales Representative
Mid-Atlantic
42 Port Circle
Warwick, RI 02889
Phone: 401/737-7871
Fax: 401/738-0086
E-mail: jrrl19@aol.com

Debora Reda is the national sales manager for classified ads and reprints for PM Engineer, Plumbing & Mechanical and Supply House Times.

Debora Reda
Classified & Reprints Manager
1050 IL Route 83, Suite 200
Bensenville, IL 60106-1096
Phone: 630/694-4389
Fax: 248/786-1382
E-mail: redad@bnpmedia.com

Beth Shor is the display sales assistant for PM Engineer, Plumbing & Mechanical and Supply House Times.

Shor, a long-time proofreader, has a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Beth Shor
Display Sales Assistant
1050 IL Route 83, Suite 200
Bensenville, IL 60106-1096
Phone: 630/694-4383
Fax: 248/502-1028
E-mail: shorb@bnpmedia.com

Stephanie Fiero is the marketing coordinator for PM Engineer, Plumbing & Mechanical and Supply House Times.

Stephanie Fiero
Marketing Coordinator
2401 W. Beaver Rd., Suite 700
Troy, MI 48084
Phone: 248/244-8261
Fax: 248/786-1388
E-mail: fieros@bnpmedia.com

CIRCULATION & LIST RENTAL

Kristine Klieman
Audience Development Assistant
2401 W. Beaver Rd., Suite 700
Troy, MI 48084
Phone: 248/786-1656
Fax: 248/283-6554

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