Tom Poyner possesses expertise in power, transmission, power generation, project engineering, scada and 20 more skills. He is proficient in Chinese. Colleagues describe him as "Tom is a bright young engineer with a big future ahead of him. He's curious, willing to learn, reliable and honest. Always calm under pressure, Tom's strengths are his ability to work with people, analyse and breakdown complex issues and continually ask "why?". He's also a great colleague, and a good human being." and "During the execution of the Hyflux project, Tom had demonstrated his capability of performing numerous task well, learning quickly and thoroughly."