Profile Evaluation Request

Paul,

Can you please analyze my profile and provide feedback regarding which schools I should target, stretch for, and use as safeties? Thanks!


Personal:
Age: 26 now (28 at matriculation in 2010)
Ethnicity / Gender: White / Male
Nationality: USA

Academics:
Undergraduate Institution: Univ. or Maryland-College Park
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Undergraduate GPA: 3.8
Final 2 year GPA: 4.0
Honors: Dean’s list every semester but one. Graduated “with honors.”
Study Abroad: American University of Rome, Italy
GMAT: 740 (48Q, 42V, 5.5 AWA).....took GMAT once

Work Experience:
Major Chemical Conglomerate Engineering Rotational Program

First Assignment: Site Project Engineer / Project Team Leader
My role: Developed, executed, and managed $6.6 million worth of capital projects. Completed project front-end-loading, economic justifications, and procurement planning. Led engineering, construction, sourcing, and permitting efforts. Employed third-party firms for some of these tasks and managed their service contracts. Served as the process owner for the site’s boiler house facility. Led the prepatory efforts for a second-party safety audit and functioned as the site’s process safety “Training and Performance Champion.”
Note: Six Sigma Green Belt Certified
Length of employment: 26 months
Reason for leaving: Assignment completed.

Second/Current Assignment: Application Engineer (different business unit)
My role: Member of the Kalrez® commercial team reporting to the Americas Business Manager. Currently supporting $30 million worth of semiconductor, chemical, and oil filed customers. Responsibilities include: expanding market share; providing customer focused technical support; and being a product line expert. Developed and presented technical and marketing seminars. Participated in our business strategy renewal effort as a member of the technology development team (this is where I realized I wanted to be a consultant). Goal of this assignment was to gain commercial experience and build my customer facing skills. 50% travel.
Length of employment to date: 36 months (at matriculation)

Extra Curricular Activities:
College:
Fraternity Vice President, Executive Advisory Committee, and Philanthropy Chair. Raised 8,000 lbs of food for the North American Food Drive. Part of a team that raised $25k for the Ronald McDonald House.

Worked part-time (15 hours per week).

Post-College:
Raritan’s Introducing Minorities to Engineering (2005-2007): Mentored underprivileged minorities and exposed them to engineering career paths. Organized and conducted public speaking seminars and technical competitions.

Explore Engineering Day (2008): An event sponsored by my company that introduces high school girls to engineering.

United Way Donation Drive Coordinator for a group of rotational engineers in my region.

Serve as my company’s campus recruiting leader for New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Because my new assignment requires frequent and irregular travel, I have found it difficult to participate in non-company sponsored EC’s that meet regularly. Is that a problem?

Hobbies:
I am a competitive runner. I typically train 5 days a week and run ~5 races a year (5-milers to marathons).

I travel frequently. I have been to 20+ countries and usually go on 1-2 road trips per month.

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I will have strong recommendations from former supervisors.

If a peer recommendation is required I would like to use a colleague that I work with frequently and who knows me well. They are a non-native English speaker so their grammar may not be impeccable. Is that a concern?

I plan to pursue a career in management consulting and am currently interested in corporate/government energy policy and strategy.

I plan to do some soul searching over the next year to refine my career ambitions and visit each of my target schools.

Sorry this is so long....