About Us

Matt handles marketing communications for the electric vertical at Sensus. When not debating the merits of K-State’s football team, you’ll find him chasing after a couple of precocious kids while training for his next marathon.

Ryan Chatel is the Sr. Product Manager for Distribution Automation. Ryan holds two Bachelor’s degrees in Business Economics and Software Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara and University of Phoenix respectively. Ryan also holds an MBA from Boise State University.

Jared is the product marketing manager of electric solutions at Sensus. He holds a B.S. and M.S degree in electrical engineering and currently resides in Raleigh, NC with his wife and two daughters.

Paul Honchar is Senior Product Manager for Sensus, a Xylem brand. Paul holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and has 39+ years of gas industry experience with Sensus and the predecessor companies.

Ben Inkrott is the Product Manager for Smart Gas Solutions at Sensus, a Xylem brand. Ben holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Dayton and is currently working on his MBA through the University of Dayton.

Sara Jones is the Marketing Communications Manager for Sensus Smart Water strategy. She is a creative marketer with more than 20 years of experience in the B2B technology space. Prior to joining Sensus, she managed marketing campaigns and events for software companies such as SAS and Red Hat.

Sara holds B.S degree with a major in Political Science and a minor in United States Legal Systems from the State University of New York at Potsdam. She loves finding new ways to reach customers through modern marketing approaches, but not as much as spending time with her two children. Three if you count her husband. Her time is split between soccer fields, gymnastics mats, horse corrals and work!

Dr. Luis Montestruque is the President and CTO of EmNet, a Xylem brand. Luis has a Ph.D. degree in control systems theory from the electrical engineering department at the University of Notre Dame. He founded EmNet in 2004 to focus on the application of Internet of Things, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence to optimize wastewater networks. In 2016, EmNet joined Xylem’s Advanced Infrastructure Analytic business to accelerate the adoption of data driven technologies by utilities across the globe.

Andira Putri is a Data Scientist at Xylem Inc. She graduated from Georgia State University with a B.S. in Mathematics in Spring 2018. Her focuses are statistical analysis on large data sets in RStudio, graph theory and spectral approaches, communications, and data visualization. She works out of Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, and she plans on returning to graduate school for an M.S. in Statistics.

Michele Reister is the Marketing Communications Manager for Sensus software, services, security and communication networks. Michele holds a B.S. in Management and Information Technology from Daniel Webster College and a M.B.A. from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Michael Tschirret is the Sensus Marketing Communications Manager for Smart Cities, Smart Lighting and the Internet of Things (IoT). He holds a B.S. degree from the Florida State University, and an M.S. from Virginia Tech.

Ericka is a career marketer specializing in B2B technology. When not devising killer marketing programs to support the gas industry vertical at Sensus, she is a wife, the mother of twin daughters, and a perpetual seeker of home improvements.