Prof. Sandeep Shahare holds Diploma in Electronics from Cusrow Wadia Institute of Technology (CWIT), Bachelor's Degree in Electronics & Telecommunication (E&Tc) from Pune University and Master's Degree in E&Tc from Govt. College of Engineering, Pune (COEP).
He is with FTII since 2006 and is presently working as Professor, TV Technical Operations since 2010. Before joining FTII, he worked as Assistant Professor in MIT Women Engineering College, Pune, for 04 years and was also working with Army Institute of Technology, Pune, from 1996 to 2002. He worked as Service Engineer in CWIT for about a year and for a short period, also worked in Electronics Industry.
He is having 19+ years of experience of teaching multi-camera technical operations in FTII and is having in-total professional & teaching experience of 30 years. He is Life Member of The Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) since 2004 and has published no. of National & International papers in the field of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering.
At present he is Dean (TV) and also Head of TV Engineering Department. He was National Coordinator of Skilling India in Film & Television (SKIFT) and is now Executive Head of Centre For Open Learning (CFOL) under which various short courses are conducted by FTII all over India in offline as well as online mode.
He is Member of Board of Studies at Department of Mass Communication, Sanjay Ghodawat University, Kolhapur. He is Academic Council member of Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), Pune, and Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University (SRTMU), Nanded.