Jon Poor

Jon Poor Jon has 10 years of experience in serving the electric and gas utility industries throughout the world. He is a GE-Certified Six Sigma Black Belt who has led a number of performance improvement initiatives for GE’s Energy Services Business Unit. His professional history includes:

General Electric Company – 10 years in field engineering and project management in the power industry including nuclear refueling and modification programs; six sigma operational improvement assignments; and market and product development for gas analysis systems.

Recent Projects

Projects that Jon has developed, managed or contributed in recent years include:

Automated Metering Infrastructure (AMI) for a Large Electrical Utility. This project entailed developing the business case for the implementation of an AMI platform. Analysis included work flows, cost structures, technology selection, and system requirements. Affects on revenue cycle services, customer service, outage management, operations and theft mitigation were incorporated. The project resulted in a comprehensive benefit analysis used by the utility for project evaluation and funding. A deployment planning effort is now underway.

Zonal Combustion Monitoring Technology development for Large Electrical Utilities. This effort consisted of a co-development of sensors, predictive modeling algorithms, and mechanical modifications to measure combustion parameters of large coal fired power plants. Customers were able to: improve monitoring capabilities, heat rate, efficiency, asset life and comply with regional emissions directives.

ERP implementation for A Large Industrial Conglomerate. This project entailed the cross functional implementation of an Oracle ERP system for three acquired companies that employed different legacy systems, work processes, and organizational structures. Common customer care, supply chain, technology, and finance processes were developed to support diverse application and customer requirements. The projected resulted in significant rooftop consolidation, fixed and variable cost reductions, while increasing capacity utilization.

Previous Experience

Jon held a series of positions with GE’s – Nuclear Energy, Energy Services, and Sensing divisions. In his last assignment, he was a Product Manager, responsible for the ultrasonic flow meters and systems. He had complete P&L responsibility for the product lines including ultrasonic flow meters, natural gas metering stations, commercial partnerships, new product development, and marketing efforts.

Prior his tenure with GE Sensing, Jon was a Six Sigma Black Belt for GE Energy Services. He developed and implemented various processes and tools to improve new product development, sustaining engineering activities, and engineer to order products supporting the utility industries. The projects resulted in improved delivery cycle times, higher yield rates and reduced cost of quality expenses.

He began his career with the GE Nuclear Energy, and over a six year period, held a progression of field engineering and project management roles supporting nuclear power plant refueling and reactor modifications outages in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

Education

MBA, Concentration in Finance, Babson College
BS, Marine Engineering, Concentration in Plant & Facilities Management, Massachusetts Maritime Academy