Roland Provost - Principal
Overview
Since forming Tatnic Group in 2003, Mr. Provost has reviewed and developed Business Strategies, Product Development Plans, and Marketing Strategies for companies in the Revenue Metering Business.Project Leadership
Before forming Tatnic Group, Mr. Provost worked for 36 years developing products for the General Electric Company. The last 28 years were in General Electric's Meter and Instrument Transformer Business. During that time, he was GE's Product Manager for Electronic Meters, Manager of AMR Marketing, Manager - Core Business, Manager - New Product Introductions, Advanced Technology Manager, Product Planning Manager, Product Service Manager, Quality and Reliability Manager, and Project Leader for Time-of-Use Register Development.Product Development
While in the GE Meter Business, he led the planning and introduction of GE's kV2, kV, and Phase3 Electronic Meter Families. He was a member of the development team for the first TOU Register, the GE T-76 Register, the first power-line AMR System, GE's AMRAC, and the first Load Profile Recorder intergrated into an Electricity Meter, the GE TMR-80. He was also a key member of the development and introduction team for GE's TMR-80, TM-900 and TM-90 Electronic Time-of-Use Register and Recorder Families, MeterMate PC Programming and Reading Software, and UCNet AMR System. His kV and kV2 meters were the first Electricty Meters to include Power Quality Monitoring and implement Standard Tables for reading and programming (PSEM), ANSI C12.18 and C12.21.This work included leading GE's Customer Focus Group Meetings that preceded product development, translating customer needs and feedback from Focus Groups into Product Specifications, development of Sales Tools and literature, .Product Training of Meter System Engineers, Beta Testing of new products and support of Key Customers.
AMR
Mr. Provost was a member of the development team for GE's two AMR Systems, UCNet and AMRAC. He also was GE's Business and Technology Liaison with AMR and Metering Reading vendors.Technology Leadership
Mr. Provost has been an industry advocate of open standards. He led the movement to open standards by releasing GE's Metering Protocol Specifications in mid-eighties and introduced the first meter to support the Protocol Specification for Electricity Meters - PSEM (ANSI C12.18 and C12.21), the GE kV Meter, in 1995.He was a member of the team that introduced the first TOU meter in 1975 to meet California's need to shape Demand Response and the first Electricity Meter with integrated Load Profile Recording, a key tool for economical implementation of PURPA requirements. His products were also the first to add Power Quality Monitoring within an electricity meter.
Mr. Provost holds six metering patents and has presented numerous papers on Metering and Power Quality Technology. He has conducted over 130 metering seminars for Electric Utilities and GE Engineers.