Lester Aponte is a Technical Sales Lead for NextEra 360™ and has spent his 10-year career with NextEra Energy. Prior to joining NextEra Analytics, Lester held various positions both in NextEra Energy Resources (NEER) and Florida Power & Light (FPL). Most recently, he was a Senior Real-Time Trader where he managed NEER’s portfolio assets in real-time, which spanned across multiple RTOs such as PJM, ERCOT, MISO, CAISO, SPP and NYISO. Prior to trading he was in system operations with FPL. As an engineer in FPL, Lester worked with both distribution and transmission relay protection and then in system operations as a real-time generation & transmission dispatcher. Lester brings years of operational and market expertise in both regulated and deregulated energy markets.