John Edward McConnell

Background

McConnell, John Edward was born on July 28, 1931 in Minot, North Dakota, United States. Son of Lloyd Waldorf and Sarah Gladys (Mathis) McConnell.

Education

Registered profile engineer, Pennsylvania Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, U. Pittsburgh, 1952. Master of Science, Drexel Institute Technology, 1958.

Career

With marketing and design departments for turbomachinery Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Lester, Pennsylvania, 1954-1960, 63-67, Pittsburgh, 1960-1963. Manager power generation equipment activities in the United States, Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget Incorporated., White Plains, New York, 1967-1979. Regional manager power equipment activities Middle Atlantic and Southeastern United States regions, 1967-1979, manager turbine generator department, 1979-1983, manager international operations Power Systems division, 1983-1984, manager transmissionsubstas. department, 1984-1985.

Manager Eastern United States operations Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget Power Systems Incorporated., 1985-1986, manager eastern operations measurements division General Electric Company, 1986-1991.

Manager eastern region Protection and Control division General Electric Company Alsthom T&Doctorate Incorporated., 1991-1998. Principal JEMTECH Company, 1998.

Adviser on energy matters to the United States congressman 1968-1974. Speaker and author on energy and electric power topics.

Achievements

• John Edward McConnell has been listed as a noteworthy electrical engineering company executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

1st lieutenant C.E., United States Army, 1952-1954. Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (life, senior, energy committee, past chairman subcommittee energy conservation and cogeneration, honorary member power system relay committee), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power Engineering Society (senior, past chairman chapters public affairs subcommittee).

Connections

Married Carol Claire Myers, July 4, 1952 (deceased February 1989). Children: Kathleen Anne, James, Amy Lynn. Married Heidi Banziger, September 29, 1990.

Father:

Lloyd Waldorf McConnell

Mother:

Sarah Gladys (Mathis) McConnell

Spouse:

Carol Claire Myers

Spouse:

Heidi Banziger

child:

Amy Lynn McConnell

child:

Kathleen Anne McConnell

child:

James Mathis McConnell