CEO/Founder
Muhammad Shahab, PE, MBA is an accomplished engineering leader and management professional with nearly two decades of experience leading engineering organizations, multidisciplinary teams, and complex industrial projects. Since 2006, he has built extensive experience across the oil and gas, energy, petrochemical, and industrial sectors, working with both domestic and international EPC contractors, OEMs, fabricators, and operating companies. Earlier in his career, he contributed to the design and construction of movable structures (bridges), establishing a strong foundation in engineering execution and project delivery.
Throughout his career, Mr. Shahab has held progressive engineering and leadership responsibilities, successfully building and managing multidisciplinary engineering teams, developing execution strategies, coordinating engineering across multiple disciplines, managing client and stakeholder relationships, and driving projects from concept through detailed engineering, procurement, fabrication, and project support. His numerous domestic and international assignments have further strengthened his ability to lead diverse teams, navigate complex project environments, and deliver practical engineering solutions across global markets.
A key strength of Mr. Shahab’s leadership approach is the combination of technical expertise, commercial awareness, and project execution experience. In addition to managing multidisciplinary engineering organizations, he is a recognized Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Static Equipment and Piping Systems. His technical background enables him to effectively guide engineering teams, challenge technical decisions, manage engineering risk, and provide senior-level oversight on critical project deliverables.
Through various Engineering, Procurement, and Fabrication (EPF) environments, Mr. Shahab has led and supported the engineering, design, procurement, and fabrication of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, piping systems, and other process equipment. His project experience also extends to emerging and sustainable energy technologies, including biomass-to-fuel, plastic-to-fuel conversion, renewable diesel, and hydrogen production facilities. He is proficient in industry-standard engineering tools, including Aspen EDR and COMPRESS, which complement his leadership and technical decision-making capabilities.
Mr. Shahab holds MBA/MSME/BSME in addition to his engineering qualifications, providing him with a strong combination of engineering leadership, business strategy, project execution, and commercial understanding. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in Alaska, California, Iowa, Nevada, Nebraska, Texas, and Washington, enabling him to provide engineering oversight and professional review and approval of applicable engineering deliverables in these jurisdictions. Additional state licensure can be pursued based on project and client requirements.
Today, Mr. Shahab’s focus is on building high-performing engineering teams, developing strategic client relationships, expanding engineering capabilities, and delivering technically sound and commercially practical solutions for complex industrial projects.
Process Engineering
Chemical Engineering Consultants
Joe Borg, PE is a highly experienced Professional Chemical Engineer with extensive expertise in the design, construction, and commissioning of modular chemical and industrial gas plants. His career includes senior engineering and leadership roles with major EPC and modular construction companies, including experience with hydrogen, syngas, methanol, ammonia, GTL, and industrial gas facilities.
In recent years, Joe has focused on renewable fuels and green hydrogen projects, including hydrogen production from biogas and other emerging technologies. His key strength is integrating complex process requirements into practical, efficient modular plant designs.
Tariq Al-Omari, Principal Process Engineer, is an accomplished Chemical Process Engineer with over 25 years of global experience across the oil & gas and renewable energy sectors. His career includes key roles at several organizations by leading FEED and EPC projects from concept through commissioning.
Tariq specializes in process simulation, modular refinery design, and renewable fuels, bringing a strong background in HYSYS, ProMax, HTRI, and hydraulic modeling.
Static Equipment Design/Engineering SME
Sean Cai, PhD is a Senior Mechanical Engineer with over 20 years of experience in oil & gas, modular processing facilities, renewable energy, and EPC project execution. His expertise includes the design and detailed engineering of ASME pressure vessels, heat exchangers, air coolers, storage tanks, and other process equipment.
Sean also leads Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) efforts for MISF Engineering, supporting complex structural, thermal, and fluid-flow applications. His broad experience spanning engineering design, fabrication, procurement, and advanced simulation makes him a key technical leader within the MISF team.
CAD Design/Project Management (Small caps project)/Construction Management
Kelvin Rice has extensive CAD design and drafting experience, supporting mechanical and piping engineering deliverables across oil & gas and industrial projects. His expertise includes:
- AutoCAD – 2D/3D modeling, drawing development, and revisions for piping, equipment layouts, and structural details.
- SolidWorks – creation of 3D part and assembly models, design modifications, and detailed fabrication drawings.
- MicroStation – preparation of plant layouts, general arrangements, and integration of multi-discipline drawings.
- Skilled in drawing management and standards, including layer control, x-ref usage, and as-built updates.
- Strong background in supporting engineers with detailed CAD drawings for pressure vessels, heat exchangers, piping systems, and structural steel.
- Project Management: Experienced in coordinating multi-discipline engineering teams, managing schedules, budgets, and deliverables. Skilled in client interface, preparing progress reports, and ensuring compliance with engineering standards and specifications.
- Construction Management: Proven ability to oversee field execution, including contractor supervision, quality inspections, constructability reviews, and resolution of site issues. Familiar with commissioning support, punch list closure, and turnover packages.
Pipe Stress and Fire Protection SME
James An, P.E. is a recognized subject matter expert in heat exchanger design and optimization, with particular expertise in using HTRI (Heat Transfer Research, Inc.) software for thermal rating and sizing. He has extensive experience in applying HTRI's advanced simulation tools to design shell-and-tube, air-cooled, and plate-type exchangers for a wide range of applications in the oil & gas, petrochemical, and energy sectors.
Beyond heat transfer, James also brings licensed expertise in fire protection engineering, enabling him to evaluate and design firewater, sprinkler, and suppression systems in alignment with NFPA standards. This unique combination of process equipment design and fire protection knowledge allows him to provide holistic engineering support — ensuring plant safety while optimizing critical heat transfer equipment.
James technical proficiency also includes piping stress modeling using CAESAR II, covering thermal expansion, dynamic loads, surge, vibration, seismic, and slug force conditions. He has worked extensively on critical piping connected to pumps, compressors, turbines, exchangers, and flare systems, delivering optimized support solutions and flexibility analyses to maintain system integrity.
Rotating Equipment SME
Vishnu Patel is a senior rotating equipment engineer with deep expertise in specifying, sizing, and procuring compressors and pumps for large-scale LNG, petrochemical, and refinery projects, supported by decades of hands-on design, vendor management, and field experience.
Structural Engineering/Analysis SME
Tecky Surawijaya, P.E., is a structural engineer with 25 years of experience in designing both offshore and onshore structures backed by ocean engineering bachelor and master of engineering degrees.
Tecky has more than 10 years of experience in design of offshore and onshore modular units, ranging from truckable skids to mega-modules, covering construction, truck/barge transportation, lifts, commissioning, in-place, and demobilization phases.
He is highly proficient in structural design and analysis per IBC, ASCE, AISC, Classification Societies (ABS and DNV), API and ASME using tools such as Ansys and SACS.
Project Management
Diana Manso Rodriguez leads the Project Management Team (PMT) at MISF Engineering LLC, providing leadership and coordination across project execution, proposal development, resource planning, and client support. She plays an instrumental role in ensuring that MISF's multidisciplinary engineering teams remain aligned with project scope, schedule, deliverables, and client expectations.
Diana leads and coordinates MISF's proposal development efforts, working closely with technical leads and Subject Matter Experts to develop comprehensive and competitive proposals. Her responsibilities include reviewing client requirements and RFQs, defining project execution strategies, coordinating multidisciplinary scopes, developing staffing and resource plans, supporting man-hour and schedule estimates, tracking technical and commercial inputs, and managing proposals through final review and submission.