Brad Buecker is president of Buecker & Associates LLC consulting and technical writing/marketing. Most recently he served as a senior technical publicist with ChemTreat Inc. He has many years of experience in or supporting the power industry, much of it in steam generation chemistry, water treatment, air quality control and results engineering positions with City Water, Light and Power (Springfield, Illinois) and Kansas City Power and Light Company's (now Evergy) La Cygne, Kansas station. His work has also included 11 years with two engineering firms, Burns and McDonnell and Kiewit, and he spent two years as acting water/wastewater supervisor at a chemical plant.