Sonia Randhawa
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| Born | Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India |
| 🏫 Education | MBA, PMP, Computer Sciences Engineer |
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| 🌐 Website | www |
Sonia Randhawa is an American Australian Indian technology executive currently based in San Francisco, California.
Career
As a technology pioneer, she began her career at IBM where she worked on the world’s first touch screen network – AJS – which won the Washington DC Smithsonian Award.
Sonia has worked in telecommunications, enterprise solutions, internet security, automation, semiconductors, AI, and IoT. She has held several leadership roles at IBM, Telstra, Alcatel-Lucent, F5 Networks, and Intel Corporation.
She helps direct technology and operational innovation across companies and oversees strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, the integration of new business models, the incubation of new technologies, and the cultivation of world-class technical talent.
Sonia has a bachelor’s degree in Information Sciences Engineering from Australia, and an MBA from the USA; and is PMP Project Management Institute certified since 2005.[1]
Early life
Sonia Randhawa was born in the city of Dharamshala in the northern Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, India. She was born into a Himachali Jatt Hindu family. She is natively fluent in Hindi and Pahari, languages she learned while spending many Australian school summer holidays visiting her grandparents in India.
She was raised in Australia where she began her education at a Catholic private school. As an athlete, she played cricket for her local cricket club Norths and also at state level in Under 19s Cricket Australia National Championships, as an opening fast bowler. She participated in the Miss India Australia Beauty Pageant and was chosen as a finalist[2]. Randhawa relocated from Australia to the USA to pursue her tech career at one of the most prestigious American companies at the time, Lucent Technologies - Bell Labs Innovations.[3]
References
- ↑ http://www.netnewsledger.com/2020/08/08/innovative-solutions-for-healthcare-and-data-security-during-covid-19/
- ↑ https://news.yahoo.com/covid-19-fueling-innovation-business-132024145.html
- ↑ https://www.ibtimes.sg/sonia-randhawa-explains-dev-secops-accelerated-adoption-during-covid-19-cybersecurity-49895
