Resumes

Jonathan M. Wert, Jr.,
Ph.D., CMC, PMC

Summary of Qualifications

Jonathan Wert has over 20 years of management consulting experience providing services to a wide range of businesses including consulting firms, regulatory agencies, and nuclear utilities. He has diagnosed the strengths and weaknesses of over 40 client firms and helped them develop, implement and evaluate strategies for improving their effectiveness, efficiency, competitiveness, and profitability. Dr. Wert has experience in evaluating management and organizational effectiveness from the CEO and Board level down to first line management in the functional areas of operations, engineering, maintenance, quality assurance, and plant support. For ten years, he has served as a management audit team leader or member to diagnose problems, develop or evaluate performance improvement programs and plans, and made recommendations to improve the operation of nuclear plants. These plants have included: Calvert Cliffs, Maine Yankee, Point Beach, Susquehanna, and Sequoia. Dr. Wert has assessed the performance of different kinds of businesses from the Board down through first line supervision. In addition to assisting executive or senior management improve operations and performance, he also served on diagnostic and special evaluation teams assembled by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for Fermi, Perry, Brunswick, Palo Verde, FitzPatrick, and Clinton nuclear stations.

Dr. Wert served as one of five consultants who conducted a prudence review of the South Texas Nuclear Project for a law firm representing the Texas Public Service Commission. This work product, along with reports of others, led to a 160 million dollar settlement from plant owners to the Texas ratepayers. He also served as a consultant to perform a focused management audit of North east Utilities with emphasis on the Millstone Nuclear Station for the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control (DPUC). Through the United States Energy Association (USEA) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Dr. Wert has consulted for the energy industry in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and the New Independent States. Through the transfer of technologies from successful businesses in the United States, he assisted foreign utility leaders with privatization, upgrading operations, and transforming regulatory processes.

Dr. Wert received both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from Austin Peay State University in Tennessee. He completed his doctorate degree at The University of Alabama. Dr. Wert is a Registered Organizational Development Consultant (RODC), Professional Management Consultant (PMC) by The Consultants Bureau, and a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) by the Institute of Management Consultants.

 

Management Diagnostics, Inc. 
P.O. Box 240,  Port Royal, PA 17082-0240

Tel: 717-527-4399 Fax: 717-527-4398

Email:  Jonathan Wert