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Joined: 07 May 2011
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Schools:Darden,Cambridge,Duke,UCLA
Q41 V46
WE 1: Information technology, 7 years
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08 Aug 2011, 18:16
Hi Team,
Greetings.Please could you have a look and let me know where I could position myself among peers.
At this point, I am eyeing -
Europe - INSEAD,Cambridge,Oxford, Maybe 1 more french school
Asia - ISB,HKUST,NUS.
NA - Darden, Duke,Tepper,Emory,Mccombs
I am flexible on the above colleges, my aim is to have - 2 Stretches,5 targets, 2-3 Backups.
Post MBA - Leverage existing knowledge that I have to move into IT Consulting.
Long term goal is to setup a retail chain in tier 2 Indian cities/towns.
Below is a brief of myself. If you need further info, please let me know.
Age : 29
Indian,Male,IT Industry.(yeah,IIM...lol)
Total experience - 7.5 years by March, 2012.
International experience - 3 years(In 3 different states in US - CA,NJ,MD).
GMAT - 710(Q46,V41), AWA - 4.5 - Do you think I should retake the gmat?
Education - B.Tech(Mechanical) - 68%, ISC(XII) - 74%, ICSE(X) (87%)
Extracurriculars - Winner of multiple scholarships at school level.
Assistant House captain of one of the 4 houses at school(Each house strength is around 700), Class leader for 3 years at school(7,8,9 th standards).
Captain of the House cricket team, Member of House football and Basketball teams.
Captain of a local cricket team at my village, where I have lead my team to victory in a major local tournament.
Founding member of a volunteer association at my village, where we help with free service for Marriage etc for the poor.
Sponsor for 2 Kids currently, providing financial help for their education.
During my college days, I had provided tuition at nominal fees for school kids in my area - (This was also in part to help fund my education)
Organised election campaigning for my colleagues - where I led sourcing funds from fellow students,Campaigning and finally victory celebrations
Member of Hostel executive committee where I, together with fellow executive members, monitored the day to day running of the college Hostel Cafeteria.
Work Exp
Presently managing a 30 member team delivering software services support worth 3.6 Million USD.
Led the team in implementing improvements resulting in savings worth over 150k USD/annum to the customer.- My role was in presenting the benefits of these improvements to the customer, get their approval to fund this change, and manage the project to meet the timelines/delivery quality.
Over and above this responsibility, I also monitor deliveries worth over 2.5 Million USD, from a support group spanning multiple locations across India, US and UK.
I define the process, implement process improvements and review the delivery quality as part of this job role.
Proposed and implemented process improvements in the operational aspect of this resulting in significant time savings for the Customer leadership team(And well appreciated too )
I am also involved in the recruitment process, where I evaluate potential employees both on a technical and attitude scale.Member of the young leaders program in the Organization, where a core (5%) team is involved in gaining leadership training and implementing ideas for excellence.
Project Lead for a team that setup the services process for a new client. I was involved in setting up the complete project team,define the process for issue handling, setting up the issue escalation matrix, and the single point of contact for the customer.
Team lead for project winning Organizational level award from the chairman of the company, for the Project of the year.