Midwest Reliability Organization
Jessica Syring is an experienced professional in the fields of compliance monitoring and systems engineering. Currently serving as the CIP Compliance Monitoring Manager at Midwest Reliability Organization since December 2015, Jessica previously held the position of CIP Compliance Engineer within the same organization. Prior to this role, Jessica worked at Open Systems International from May 2006 to December 2015 as the Systems Engineering Supervisor, where responsibilities included overseeing personnel to design, plan, develop, implement, test, commission, and support customer projects. Jessica holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota, having completed the degree in 2006, and also attended North Dakota State University from 2000 to 2002.
Midwest Reliability Organization
Welcome to Midwest Reliability Organization! Midwest Reliability Organization (MRO) is dedicated to achieving its vision of a highly reliable and secure North American bulk power system. The MRO region spans the provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and all or parts of the states of Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin. The region is comprised of more than 200 organizations that are involved in the production and delivery of electricity, including municipal utilities, cooperatives, investor-owned utilities, transmission system operators, federal power marketing agencies, Canadian Crown Corporations, and independent power producers. MRO's primary responsibilities are to: ensure compliance with mandatory Reliability Standards by entities who own, operate, or use the interconnected, international BPS; conduct assessments of the grid's ability to meet electricity demand in the region; and analyze regional system events. Additionally, MRO creates an open forum for stakeholder experts in the region to discuss important topics related to addressing risk and improving reliable operations of the power grid.