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.

Jill holds a BA in Public Policy Studies – Environmental Law and Regulation from Duke University and an MBA from Babson College. A life-long learner, she’s about to start horseback riding lessons and bee-keeping school. She enjoys volunteering for animal rescues, hiking with her pup and listening to live music.

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!

Michael is the Director of Technical Content in Sensus’ Proposal group where he helps utilities find the right solution for their AMI needs.

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.

Brandon O’Daniel is the Software Manager of the Data Lake and Data Science teams for Sensus/Xylem. He has more than two decades of experience working in various Enterprise IT roles. Most recently, O'Daniel is interested in performing big data engineering and data science on the Amazon Web Services platform. Brandon holds a B.S. in Applied Science from UNC-Chapel Hill, an M.B.A from NC State University, and is a certified PMP and a certified Amazon Cloud Practitioner.

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 former 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.

Zack is the principal data engineer for the Xylem Data Lake team. When he isn’t learning and implementing cloud technology for Xylem, he enjoys being the father of four young kids, and will take any excuse to run/hike/bike through the mountains or the woods.

Vincent Toups is a PhD Neuro/Physicist turned Data Scientist/Engineer interested in traceable, reliable data science, the foundations and history of physics, programming languages and game design. He is also a dad and an assistant beekeeper.

Michael Tschirret is the former 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.