An enthusiastic Pre-Sales Engineer interested in challenging roles to further explore the field of Telecommunications/Networks from the industry perspective. Strong technical acumen with good communication/presentation skills to regularly interface with clients, perform implementations and support the Sales Team in winning the deals. Target industries are anything from telecom to energy related. Currently working with Application and Network Performance Monitoring, VoIP and WAN acceleration among others.

Systems Engineer / Pre-Sales Engineer @ From March 2015 to Present (8 months) Greater New York City AreaSystems Engineer / Pre-Sales Engineer - RPM @ RPM (Riverbed Performance Management) Business Unit was formed by combining former OPNET products and Riverbed's Cascade product line. Previous role at OPNET was further extended to support the complete integrated RPM suite of products. From April 2013 to March 2015 (2 years) Greater New York City AreaApplications Engineer @ Demonstrate and give in-depth explanation of OPNET software products. Includes product functionality, implementation support, client onsite “proof of concept” projects and client training. Support product feature demonstration at industry conferences and technical workshops. From February 2012 to April 2013 (1 year 3 months) Greater New York City AreaGraduate Research @ Assisted Professor Gil Zussman’s team (EnHANTs) in designing and conducting experiments to harvest indoor light energy and motion(kinetic) energy from accelerometers as potential sources of energy for developing ‘self- reliant’ tags Worked on a project for Civionics which involved building an energy efficient algorithm that enhances structural monitoring (rescue operations) of a debris site based on the data collected by wireless sensors. From January 2011 to December 2011 (1 year) Career and Alumni Chair @ Spearheaded the organisation of Tech Talks which is a bi-weekly technical event. A Tech Talk involves bringing in professionals who have experience in industry, and explaining what it is like to work in their respective field.Sometimes we bring in companies looking to hire, but the main purpose of the Tech Talk is to educate our engineering graduate students on career options. We have managed to bring in companies of the like IBM, Intel, Dupont, Alcatel- Lucent, Microsoft, Solar one etc. Also responsible for organising alumni networking events and career related workshops From December 2010 to December 2011 (1 year 1 month) Graduate Teaching Assistant, Electrical Engineering @ - Grade and guide course projects and assignments for Graduate level course, Wireless Sensing taught by Professor Jacob Sharony of the Electrical Engineering Department. - Assist with logistics involving course material and clear doubts concerning the course and projects. From August 2010 to December 2011 (1 year 5 months) Teaching Assistant @ As a part of this program we were supposed to train high school students to design a mobile phone app prototype, write a business plan, and “pitch” their plan to a panel of venture capitalists at a high-visibility, “Pitch Night” event. Winners of each regional Pitch Night were taken to the San Francisco Bay Area for a “National Pitch Night.” From January 2011 to May 2011 (5 months) Google NYCIntern (R&D) @ • Built a fully functioning tracking system using RFID and smart card technology as Final Year B.E Project. • Microcontroller used - Atmega 89C51 • Obtained valuable experience in tracking systems for industrial applications. From September 2009 to April 2010 (8 months) MumbaiIntern @ • Acquired substantial knowledge about the network layout and usage of electrical systems in refineries. • Was introduced to the uses of hardware and refinery system software applications used by BPCL. From October 2009 to November 2009 (2 months) Mumbai

MS, Electrical Engineering @ Columbia University - Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science From 2010 to 2011 B.E, Electronics and Telecommunitions @ University of Mumbai From 2006 to 2010 High School @ The Indian High School, Dubai From 1996 to 2006 Sonal Shetkar is skilled in: C++, Microcontrollers, Matlab, C, Electrical Engineering, Unix, Telecommunications, Wireless, Linux, Embedded Systems, Software Engineering, Algorithms