Re: aiming for NYU Stern/Columbia profile evaluation
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23 Dec 2021, 01:27
Hi All,
I would really appreciate a feedback on my profile.
GMAT - 770
10th - 78.6% (CBSE)
12th - 77.2% with PCM (CBSE)
Graduation - B.tech (Computer Science engineering) from UPTU (72.8 %)
Age : 33
Gender: Female
Nationality - Indian
Target Colleges : HARVARD, STANFORD, WHARTON, INSEAD, LBS , COLUMBIA, KELLOGGS, MIT SLOAN, NYU STERN, CHICAGO BOOTH
Professional Experience- 11.5 years of Full time work experience ( Worked in known IT Brands - Capgemini,L&T Infotech, Wipro)
CURRENT ROLE : ( Business Intelligence Specialist) Manager in a Hedge fund company. Works in a techno-functional role
Career key highlights -
Saved $49.7M by implementing proof-of-concept to convert $500 M projects from Ab Initio to PySpark technology
Contributed $200k annual revenue by aggregating unstructured data from 100+ sources for new product
Saved a fine of $125M by creating Data Redaction Framework, since replicated globally on data obfuscation for card
customers; Supported the Project Manager and Tech Lead to liaison with clients and harvest available test data
Optimized support model and addressed recurring incidents reducing weekly incident count from 55 to 20; Reduced
the production incident TAT by 20% using a logistic plan for frequently occurring issues
Collaborated with Infrastructure team to write custom shell scripts for process monitoring and data clean-up; Reduced
disk space requirement by 35% by freeing up 15TB space daily
Reduced 50% TAT for managerial reporting system using optimized algorithms for query processing
Facilitated business expansion and increased user base from 100-200 to 100k users in 3 months
Generated processes to capture data from 150 servers across different locations; Reduced 30% TAT for check-in/out
and graph execution by streamlining 120 projects using data lineage
Trained a team of 4 recruits in Financial Services Business Unit; Got promoted first, amongst the batch of 1100
CERTIFICATIONS
NSE Academy Certification in Financial Markets Certification, NSE India, Aug 2015
Certification on Data Warehouse Concepts, Brain-bench, Aug 2015
ACHIEVEMENTS
Won the 1st prize among 1500 participants, Planks Competition, organized by <>, Mar 2018
Author of Romance Novel <>, 2015
Featured in National Newspapers ( Hindustan Times , Times of India ) , 2015
1 Manuscript complete & publishing is in progres ( Not sure if this is worth mentioning ) , 2 Manuscripts ( Writing in progress) .
VOLUNTEER WORK
Volunteer, Corporate Wellness Programs, <>: Organised wellness challenges for 80 colleagues & helped
5 colleagues to achieve weight transformation; Wrote 15 health & fitness articles on the company portal, Mar 2020
Young Professional Ambassador, CSR Team, <>: Created awareness about 'Teach for India’ fellowship
programme; Identified 135 individuals out of which 5 were selected for fellowship programme, Apr 2012 – Mar 2013
Post MBA goals - (Short term plan )Digital Transformation Leader , ( Long term plan) Chief Information Officer . I am also open to explore possibilities in Consulting and look forward to explore that dimension too. But leveraging my IT experience in Business Intelligence would be great.