Jonathan S. LeSueur
Midlothian
Summary
Proactive and strategic Energy Specialist with over 21 years of expertise in the energy sector. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills facilitate effective conveyance of complex information to diverse stakeholders, including clients and senior leadership. Results-oriented problem solver and motivator, adept at long- and short-term strategic planning, leveraging data-driven insights and team collaboration to achieve project goals while upholding organizational values. Proven success in managing change initiatives that enhance technical, human resources, business, and financial performance within the energy industry.
Overview
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Work History
Lead Account Manager Water Treatment
Veolia WTS
- Serve as primary contact at assigned customer sites, focused on selling water processing solutions and products to expand and maintain customer accounts. Actively listen to customers’ needs and provide effective technical service to resolve issues and inquiries. Drive growth by continuously creating and selling customer value propositions for assigned account base that focuses on our competitive advantage while leveraging our broad product portfolio. Collaborate with assigned team and support functions to ensure the most effective customer support. Serve as a knowledge resource to customers using our technology to solve identified water treatment needs. Partner cross-functionally within organization to optimize our solutions offering. Develop a plan to effectively meet sales targets by meeting or exceeding key metrics for revenue, account retention, profitability. Learn and maintain awareness of all safety and environmental practices.
Manager Repair and Logistics Steam and Gas Turbines
General Electric, GE Gas Power, GE Power
- Prioritize safety above all else by maintaining a rigorous adherence to safety standards and processes, ensuring that safety risks and issues are identified, reported, and addressed immediately. Follow methods, standards, and work instructions to: Provide guidance to the project team including design engineering, project engineering, supply chain representative and assigned workshop team members. Manage scope of work, schedule, budget, and resources to achieve on-time delivery and target gross margin. Preemptively take measures to avoid or mitigate events that might adversely impact project schedule or budget. Maintain an accurate forecast of revenue and cost throughout entire project. Act as liaison between supply chain representative and vendors to ensure required materials and services are delivered on time to support project schedule. Maintain effective communication between commercial stakeholders, solutions experts, and workshop team. Understand and assume post sale responsibilities for all commercial aspects of assigned projects including proposal, cost estimates and purchase order or contract. Manage all aspects of assigned projects, including establishment of budget, procurement of material, planning, scheduling, and execution. Ensure employee safety and quality are the top priorities while executing project deliverables. Embrace a culture of respect, valuing inclusive teams and diverse perspectives to direct and train others as assigned, enabling the flow of information by inviting participation and responding productively. Approach daily work with continuous improvement in mind, working to continuously develop and improve mechanical assembly department practices to reduce cycle time, improve machine availability and efficiency, and lower operating costs.
Asset Management, Energy Trading, and Business Development
Dominion Energy
- Evaluate the impact of real-time market conditions on load position. Dispatch regulated generator fleet to support real-time power needs. Collaborate with Business Development to plan technical details and specifications of future projects. Develop hedging strategies for power purchasing and selling. Create and implement daily power balance plan to maintain effective margins. Review and assess energy transactions, ensuring all relevant aspects, such as contractual terms, counter party, energy price, and transmission congestion, comply with risk management parameters. Liaise with Dominion and PJM operations centers. Collect and enter data into systems and observe reporting deadlines. Adjust and control energy, regulation, and reserve marketplace fleet parameters to better serve generation assets and dispatch operations. Serve as SME on wide variety of topics, including generation technical operations for fossil, nuclear, and renewable power, solar power design, transmission operations, components, and switching. Utilize Six Sigma Blue Belt standards for training and staff development. Track and refine hourly fleet margins using PJM marketplace. Monitor market prices for power commodities and surplus/deficit for each position; recommend price adjustments to retain competitive advantage. Train in various relevant skills and tactics, including energy grid restoration, market strategies, and negotiations.
- Designed and presented educational training on power station technical operations. Coworkers and subordinates reported marked improvements in efficiency after completing these original training modules.
- Key participant in productivity increases among asset management group, exceeding 90% efficiency dispatching generating units and capturing economic opportunities.
Control Room Operator
Dominion Energy
- Oversaw daily plant operations. Performed startup and shutdown procedures for processes and equipment as necessary to maintain steady and adequate power production. Operated Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. Compiled and analyzed production and operational data; drafted, edited, and delivered forms, logs, and reports. Supervised clearances; implemented lock-out and tag-outs when necessary. Liaised with contractors, engineers, field personnel, planners, technicians, and supervisors on various plant procedures and actions. Monitored power grid for unusual activity and adjusted production and reactor output as necessary to maintain reliability. Remotely reset equipment as necessary; reported issues and outages and contacted repair technicians. Upheld safety standards and response times. Operated numerous pieces of general and proprietary equipment, such as BTG boards, DCS control consoles, fire boilers, and roll steam turbines. Performed maintenance and upkeep on generators, turbines, and other large-scale generation equipment. Coordinated maintenance outages and led maintenance teams. Entered work requests and created production work orders.
- Together with senior management, devised and refined new operating procedures and after full station conversion from coal to gas.
- Project managed control system upgrade projects, modernizing 2 power generation units.
- Created safe and functional work environment, overseeing 5+ years with no OSHA recordable incidents.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Exercise Science
Bridgewater College
Skills
- Knowledge of OSHA safety standards
- Energy production processes
- Environmental management
- Transmission switching
- Renewable energy systems knowledge
- Gas Turbines
- Sales and customer support
- Heat Recovery Steam Generators
- Risk assessment
- Understanding of physics principles
- Team building
- Electric grid restoration
- Contract Negotiations
- Gas Infrastructure
- Boilers
- Financial performance analysis
- Leadership
- Data analysis and reporting
- Sustainable and traditional energy
- Project Management
- Steam Turbines
- Gas and Energy Trading
- Business Development
- Operational management
Certification
- Certified Generation Operator and Dispatcher, PJM
- Certified EMT, State of Virginia, 2006 – 2010
- Certified Personal Trainer, NASM, 2008 – 2010
Timeline
Lead Account Manager Water Treatment
Veolia WTS
Manager Repair and Logistics Steam and Gas Turbines
General Electric, GE Gas Power, GE Power
Asset Management, Energy Trading, and Business Development
Dominion Energy
Control Room Operator
Dominion Energy
Bachelor of Science - Exercise Science
Bridgewater College
Training & Development
- Exercise Science, Bridgewater College
- Course in Engineering Ethics, Grantham University
- Course in Energy Production, Distribution, and Safety, University of Buffalo, 2020
- Course in Properties of Electrical Circuits, Grantham University
- Course in Solar Energy Basics, State University of New York, 2019
- Contract Negotiations
Additional Experience
- Operator, Dominion Virginia Power Plant, (Boiler, Turbine, Generator and Scrubber)
- Deputy, Buckingham County Sheriff’s Office, Buckingham, VA