Jerome Porter
Midlothian,VA
Summary
Accomplished leader with extensive experience at GE Power in project management and process optimization. Demonstrated strategic thinking by successfully reducing fixed production costs by 30% through the application of lean methodologies. Proven ability to mentor teams and foster cross-functional collaboration, driving engineering excellence and operational efficiency.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
People Leader – MYA Systems Governance | Gas Turbine Engineering
GE Vernova - Gas Power
Richmond, VA
10.2022 - Current
- Responsible for delivery of quarterly MYA Margin Review Catalog engineering capital part life limits and ensuring design review and process compliance of part life inputs
- On-Time Delivery (OTD) of MYA engineering catalog update assignments on a quarterly basis
- Application of Daily Management and Standard Work to resolve Governance-related changes and issues
- Own related Quality Work Instructions and Standard Operating Procedures
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams in the execution of Engineering Catalog Life Updates, including Product Service, Product Management, Systems, MYA Risk, GTE (Gas Turbine Engineering) Design, Reliability Engineering, Outage Planning, Parts, Sourcing and RTCOE (Repair Technology Center of Excellence)
- Reduction of Fixed Production Costs (FPC) by 30% with improved Standard Work, Daily Management, Automation of Lifing Source Inputs, and driving Stakeholder / partner functions process alignment and synergies – enabling redeployment of resource time into upstream processes including New Product Introduction (NPI) and other R&D related tasks
Technical Leader – Americas Quick Response Center | Global Product Service
GE Power
Richmond, VA
04.2020 - 10.2022
- People and Technical Leader for Engineers working in a Quick Response Center covering Gas Turbine, Steam Turbine, Generator, and Plant Technology Platforms and Equipment technical issues
- Ensured Engineering Response (ER) cases completed by the QRC were technically accurate and consistent with global processes and quality standards
- Responsible for scheduling resources of the QRC in coordination with other QRC Regions including Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia, to ensure all ER case volume is managed efficiently Globally
- Responsible to grow team’s technical depth and breadth such that the QRC engineers can work on various types of ER cases across gas turbine, steam turbine, and generator technologies
- Partners with downstream support organizations to ensure resources are available to receive and execute dispatched ER cases
- Coordinate with other region leaders to establish daily handover process
- Drive cross functional collaboration to share knowledge, drive Kaizen improvements, engineering productivity, standard work, and best practices across team members and between other organizations
- Identify opportunities to establish self-help solutions to potential ER case submitters to reduce ER case volume and improve productivity of field engineers
- Provide inputs to operations for financial planning of resource capacity to meet demand for ER case execution
- Work flexible hours as needed to support customers during installation or outage execution
Sr. Engineer, Gas Turbine Product Service, Global - Turbine
GE Power
Richmond, VA
07.2017 - 04.2020
- Provided technology leadership globally for heavy duty gas turbine HGP technology with a focus on North America and Latin America
- Served as subject matter expert on HGP hardware and provide training to the rest of the product service organization to improve competency of the organization in this area
- Led root cause investigations for issues with significant fleet impact from initial investigation through the corrective action and preventive action (CAPA) phase
- Resolved in depth, technical issues in GT technology for customers timely and efficiently
- Assured all component designs meet requirements for customers
- Supported and coordinated with interfacing organizations such as manufacturing, sourcing, services, operations, and design engineering, to fulfill customer needs
- Supported service programs, fulfillment, and New Product Introduction (NPI) programs
- Provided strong guidance and contribution to design to cost projects
- Communicated progress across all levels of the organization, including plant operators and executive leaders
- Served as a thought leader in industry, at conferences, user groups, and customer events
- Mentored and developed GT service engineers
Sr. Engineer, Gas Turbine System Integration Lead – Technical Leader, North America
GE Power
Midlothian, VA
11.2016 - 07.2017
- Primarily was responsible for integrating the regional technical elements of the legacy Alstom business into the GE combined regional engineering structure
- Integration functions included: Application Engineering, Fleet Support management, and customer outage support for North America
- Provided technical feedback into the engineering Functions and Product Line
- Supported the regional application engineering teams in developing business outcomes for GE customers
- Supported the Fleet Management / Customer Support team in executing Site / Customer level root cause analysis investigations and customer communication
- Supported the Outage / Installation team in addressing specific technical issues that occur during customer outages and new unit installations
- Provided technical guidance and input on GE gas turbine products
- Supported oOEM initiatives in the region
- Facilitated integration meetings between the legacy Alstom team and the legacy GE region team to establish consistent execution processes across the engineering functions
- Supported customer meetings as required
- Supported and drove the three-pillar engineering structure of region, function, and product line
Lead Engineer, Risk and Reliability – Gas Turbine Fleet Reliability
GE Power
Midlothian, VA
05.2016 - 11.2016
- Process integration lead for GE and legacy Alstom lifetime (lifing) extension methods and best practices to optimize GT system and component level risk and reliability analysis
- Performed analyses to support services and new product initiatives related to reliability, availability and maintainability of gas turbine thermal product related programs
- Managed resources from a cross functional organization including component, performance, design and repair engineering
- Supported sales with combined cycle reliability analysis on a programmatic and ad-hoc basis
- Supported condition-based maintenance, degradation based maintenance, hot gas path life entitlement efforts, and PGS catalog inputs for margin review with gas capital unplanned outage risk and fallout forecasts
- Monitored field and shop data for leading indicators of emerging fleet issues or PGS productivity erosion
- Researched field events and build predictive models using methods such as Weibull-type methods and other statistical tools
- Combined component-level failure mode models using a range of simulation methods to create system and fleet level predictions of risk for a variety of scenarios
- Performed FMEAs (Failure Mode & Effects Analysis) and risk profiling of components on new products through collaboration with design teams
- Provided domain expertise to support customer meetings and /or collaborative efforts as required
- Provided analysis in support of Root Cause Analyze (RCA), Technical Information Letter (TIL) creation, Operations & Maintenance (O&M) projects, and GE Advantage-Reliability
- Contributed to continuous improvement in both the products and engineering processes
- Coached, mentored, and trained less experienced engineers in industry/product knowledge and the reliability discipline
Lead Engineer, Mechanical-Component – Compressor and Turbine Blading
GE Power
Midlothian, VA
10.2015 - 10.2016
- Provided technical support and solutions for allocated compressor and turbine components, 60 Hz market
- Built unplanned outage and fallout (scrap) reliability models to support gas turbine maintenance interval and part life extensions, and engine uprates
- Supported field monitoring and risk mitigation measures as well as 8D / root cause analysis (RCA) investigations
- Monitored and recorded blading components lifetime
- Prepared and organized technical design, function, operation improvements and recommendations
- Ensured that all technical requirements for safe operation of the gas turbine, after inspection or reconditioning, are met and documented
- Executed technical risk assessments of gas turbine hot gas path parts for component lifetime extensions
- Led product improvement projects within an international environment
- Led and coordinate reconditioning process development activities
- Provided lab investigative inputs and requirements for validation of component lifetime extensions and component design changes
- Provided configuration and design change control including maintenance of effected documents and processes
- Defined and created component specific assessment procedures and criteria
- Defined and created field service instructions
- Participated in new technologies and product development projects
- Provided customer care including presentations and consultations
Gas Turbine Component Engineer – Turbine Blading
Alstom Power
Baden, Switzerland
03.2013 - 10.2015
- Assumed technical responsibility for gas turbine blading
- Ensured all technical requirements for safe operation of the gas turbine, after inspection or reconditioning, are met and documented
- Acted as technical contact for design specific component issues for supply, fleet, product and project management
- Participated in new technologies and product development projects
- Carried out component condition assessments, failure analysis and component lifetime extensions
- Executed technical risk assessments of gas turbine hot gas path parts
- Led product improvement projects within an international environment
- Provided lab investigative inputs and requirements for validation of component lifetime extensions and component design changes
- Defined investigative scope for metallurgical analysis
- Documented and maintained standard configurations and field experience of service parts
- Defined and created component specific assessment procedures and criteria
- Defined and created field service instructions
- Provided customer care including presentations and consultations
Manager, Lead Assessment Engineer
Alstom Power
Midlothian, VA
04.2008 - 03.2013
- Scheduled and dispatched all North American, GT24 assessment assignments
- Allocated tools for assessment related projects
- Maintenance of assessment tooling
- Led assessment pre and post outage meetings for planning and lessons learned
- Maintained communication as an Execution Center with a Lead Product Center to ensure exchange of global assessment activities and knowledge transfer
- Maintained a Microsoft Project based schedule of assessment related projects distributed to project management for forecasting and scheduling
- Maintained and updated assessment procedures, templates, work scopes and task list
- Ensured and conducted training of all Richmond based inspection and assessment engineers
- Recruited prospective assessment engineers
- Developed opportunities for expansion of assessment scope outside of gas turbines
- Performed inspections as lead engineer, during overhaul and inspection outages worldwide
- Performed condition-based lifetime assessment of components
- Managed and supported continuous improvement within the assessment team
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree - Manufacturing Engineering
Virginia State University
Petersburg, VA12.2007
Skills
- Project Management
- Process Optimization
- Configuration Management
- Lean Methodologies Expertise
- Giving constructive feedback
- Change management
- Performance improvement
- Relationship building
- Standard Work and Daily Management
- Leadership
- Influencing skills
- Strategic thinking
- Mentoring
- Verbal and written communication
Certification
- Material Processing, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Mechanical Properties of Engineering Materials, UC Davis Extension
- Gas Turbine Assessment Engineer Training
- Commissioning Engineer Training
- 8D (RCA) Process Team Member Training / Trainer
Community
- Member of General Electric Political Action Committee (GEPAC) / Leadership Circle
- Member of Non-Profit organization, TRAKD
Knowhow
- Detailed knowledge of combined cycle power plant arrangement
- Detailed knowledge of gas turbine arrangement
- Knowledge of gas turbine principles of operation and construction
- Sound knowledge of gas turbine blading components manufacturing and repair processes
- Engineering design experience including GT compressor, combustor and turbine
Affiliations
- GE Engineers Week - 2018
- Mentoring and Integration - 2018
- Edison RCA Trainer - 2019
- Customer Hero - 2020
- Leading Through Culture - 2020
- Customer RCA and CAPA Implementation - 2021
- LEAN Tools and Process Excellence - 2021
- Above and Beyond Effort in Leading Remotely - 2023
- Driving Part Life Process into Standard Work - 2024
Timeline
People Leader – MYA Systems Governance | Gas Turbine Engineering
GE Vernova - Gas Power
10.2022 - Current
Technical Leader – Americas Quick Response Center | Global Product Service
GE Power
04.2020 - 10.2022
Sr. Engineer, Gas Turbine Product Service, Global - Turbine
GE Power
07.2017 - 04.2020
Sr. Engineer, Gas Turbine System Integration Lead – Technical Leader, North America
GE Power
11.2016 - 07.2017
Lead Engineer, Risk and Reliability – Gas Turbine Fleet Reliability
GE Power
05.2016 - 11.2016
Lead Engineer, Mechanical-Component – Compressor and Turbine Blading
GE Power
10.2015 - 10.2016
Gas Turbine Component Engineer – Turbine Blading
Alstom Power
03.2013 - 10.2015
Manager, Lead Assessment Engineer
Alstom Power
04.2008 - 03.2013
- Material Processing, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Mechanical Properties of Engineering Materials, UC Davis Extension
- Gas Turbine Assessment Engineer Training
- Commissioning Engineer Training
- 8D (RCA) Process Team Member Training / Trainer
Bachelor of Science Degree - Manufacturing Engineering
Virginia State University
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