Career
Prior to his election Poole was a Senior Economist and Statistical Analyst in the Policy Unit of the Falkland Islands Government. He had previously worked as a manager in the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in Stanley and was a representative of a fishing industry association. In 2012 Poole travelled with a group of young islanders to promote the Falkland Islanders" right to self-determination at a meeting of the Special Committee on Decolonisation in New York and later at the Commonwealth Youth Parliament in London.