JC Theron

Technical Applications Engineer
GE Grid Solutions

JC (Jacobus) Theron is Technical Applications Engineer for Grid Automation division of GE Grid Solutions. He received the degree of Electrical and Electronic Engineer from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa in 1991. Mr. Theron has 25 years of engineering experience; 6 years with Eskom (South Africa) as Protection / Control and Metering Engineer, 13 years with GE Multilin (Canada) as Product / Technical support / Protective Relaying Consultant/Protection and Systems Engineer leading the Project and Consulting Engineering team and as Product Manager, 2 years with Alstom T&D (USA) as Senior Systems Engineer and 5 years with Hydro One as Operations Assessment Engineer / P&C Technical Services Manager. He specializes in transmission, distribution, bus and rotating machines applications support and Fast Load Shed Systems, system designs and transient system testing and is member of the IEEE.