Glenn Heistand, PE
Founder, Reep Works LLC
Licensed Professional Engineer
30+ years engineering leadership
30+ years engineering leadership
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Board Chair, New Horizon Church (Champaign, IL) - governance experience in the exact context where responsible AI in ministry gets decided
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Section Lead, Illinois State Water Survey (ISWS/CHAMP) - leading multi-agency flood risk projects across Illinois
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Managing ~$15M in active FEMA flood mitigation grants across the state
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Co-Chair, ASFPM Floodplain Management Committee - Mapping and Engineering Standards
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Prairie Research Institute AI Research Frontier Workgroup participant - responsible AI adoption in science and research programs
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Built and shipped 3 production platforms - Pastor Dave Pro (AI voice agent), RAS Agent (hydraulic modeling pipeline), and CHAMP PM (internal grant management tool)
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Focus: responsible AI for organizations doing work that matters - not AI for its own sake
reep
/rēp/ · family origin
"This is hard. I'm frustrated. But I love you - and we can get through this together."
A word born in the trenches of real life, where love and effort meet.
Built on a family word
"Reep" isn't in any dictionary. It's a word my family invented - one of those expressions that gets coined in the middle of a hard moment, when frustration and love collide and you choose to keep going anyway.
It means: this is hard, I'm not pretending otherwise, but I'm in it with you.
That's the spirit behind Reep Works. AI is genuinely hard to navigate - for churches, for engineering teams, for people trying to figure out what it means for their work and their lives. We don't pretend otherwise. We build tools that meet real needs, and we walk alongside organizations as they figure it out.
Not because it's easy. Because it matters.