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Current Role
Team Leader – Customer Application Engineering
- Lead a global customer-facing engineering team, enabling automotive clients to adopt next-generation solutions
-Manage client relationships across Europe and Asia, ensuring technical excellence and business alignment.
Post-MBA goal: Transition into strategic leadership roles in global firms, bridging technology, business, and customer impact.
Career Highlights
- 9+ years in the automotive industry, progressing from technical engineering roles to leadership.
- International exposure: Worked extensively with clients across Europe, Asia, and North America.
-Leadership growth: Scaled from individual contributor to team leader; built a customer-first culture and introduced training frameworks to upskill engineers.
- Strategic impact: Influenced product direction and customer adoption strategies, bridging technical innovation with commercial needs.

Education
- Master’s in Mobility & Electric Vehicles
-Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering
-Academic distinction; ranked among Top 3 in class.
-Secured Master’s scholarship after successfully appealing an initial rejection—demonstrating initiative and resilience.

I just edited the post, thanks so much
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Pixelm, Let ARINGO join the session and they will answer you ASAP.
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Hi Everyone! I’m Jen T. with ARINGO! Excited to evaluate profiles today!
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Post-MBA goal: Transition into strategic leadership roles in global firms, bridging technology, business, and customer impact.
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- 9+ years in the automotive industry, progressing from technical engineering roles to leadership.
- International exposure: Worked extensively with clients across Europe, Asia, and North America.
-Leadership growth: Scaled from individual contributor to team leader; built a customer-first culture and introduced training frameworks to upskill engineers.
- Strategic impact: Influenced product direction and customer adoption strategies, bridging technical innovation with commercial needs.

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- Master’s in Mobility & Electric Vehicles
-Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering
-Academic distinction; ranked among Top 3 in class.
-Secured Master’s scholarship after successfully appealing an initial rejection—demonstrating initiative and resilience. I’m targeting a GMAT score of 630, french citizen. as for schools, i am targeting INSEAD, HEC and IMD.
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Current Role
Team Leader – Customer Application Engineering
- Lead a global customer-facing engineering team, enabling automotive clients to adopt next-generation solutions
-Manage client relationships across Europe and Asia, ensuring technical excellence and business alignment.
Post-MBA goal: Transition into strategic leadership roles in global firms, bridging technology, business, and customer impact.
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- 9+ years in the automotive industry, progressing from technical engineering roles to leadership.
- International exposure: Worked extensively with clients across Europe, Asia, and North America.
-Leadership growth: Scaled from individual contributor to team leader; built a customer-first culture and introduced training frameworks to upskill engineers.
- Strategic impact: Influenced product direction and customer adoption strategies, bridging technical innovation with commercial needs.

Education
- Master’s in Mobility & Electric Vehicles
-Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering
-Academic distinction; ranked among Top 3 in class.
-Secured Master’s scholarship after successfully appealing an initial rejection—demonstrating initiative and resilience. I’m targeting a GMAT score of 630, french citizen. as for schools, i am targeting INSEAD, HEC and IMD.
Hi Pixelm, Impressive work experience in a growing field!
9 years is at the top of the typical full-time MBA range, but still possible
Academics are solid. :)
For HEC, INSEAD, IMD - GMAT of 635 FE is right in range for these schools, especially with your master’s and rank. 630 on old GMAT is a bit low, but you may be able to prove your academics and the score as fluke.
French citizen is less common in MBA applicant pool, so this is very favorable for any school - so they will have a bit more lenience with experience and exam score
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Jenifer from ARINGO is here with us ask your profile related questions now.
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I’m also happy to answer any MBA or B-school related questions
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The only doubt o have is about my age factor... I have the impression that IMD would be more suitable for my case. Any thoughts please ?
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IMD and RSM are more open to older candidates - not sure your age, but having a masters helps with the math - they are reporting years of post-grad experience, not age, for rankings
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I’m also happy to answer any MBA or B-school related questions
Hi Jenifer, feel free to not answer this question if it’s out of the scope for this chat 😂, I was wondering about the award section of resumes, can I include a fellowship that I was accepted too, along with the distinction I graduated with and scholarships I’ve won?

Also semi-related, do applicants who use AI for their application are they looked disfavorably compared to those who didn’t?

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For awards - this is great - if you don’t have as much clubs/activities/volunteer work - ECs on the resume are better - there is room for awards in the actual application form. Unless you have a lower exam score, then the academic accomplishments can help.
I think if you use AI in the right way, it can be good. but if you feed it the data and expect the essays to work, it won’t
They are looking for highly personalized essays - especially with AI. If they ask to disclose if you used it, you should be truthful and say you helped with research and idea generation.
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For awards - this is great - if you don’t have as much clubs/activities/volunteer work - ECs on the resume are better - there is room for awards in the actual application form. Unless you have a lower exam score, then the academic accomplishments can help.
I think if you use AI in the right way, it can be good. but if you feed it the data and expect the essays to work, it won’t
They are looking for highly personalized essays - especially with AI. If they ask to disclose if you used it, you should be truthful and say you helped with research and idea generation.
This is great advice thank you so much! Is Columbia and stern schools that care about demonstrated interest, I have a couple of events I am signed up to go to, but wondering if I should talk to admissions, just have my name down that I went :)
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If you registered for the event, it will show up in their CRM and you’ll note it in the application form. I’d recommend reaching out to a student - specifically from a club of interest and discuss their experience on academic, personal and professional fronts
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Education: B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from SRM Institute of Science and Technology (CGPA 8.04/10).

Academic Project: Conducted data-driven experimental research on solar energy systems, applying statistical and computational modeling.

Current Role: Data Analyst at Escorts Kubota Ltd., working on dealership KPIs, predictive modeling, and sales dashboards.

Key Achievement: Built a Random Forest–based Customer Dissatisfaction Prediction Model with 89% accuracy, improving service efficiency by 30%.

Dashboarding Skills: Designed interactive KPI dashboards using SQL & Tableau, enabling real-time insights and boosting sales by 15–40%.

Past Internship: Data Analyst Intern at Wonjin Autoparts Ltd., optimized SQL-based processes and built dashboards reducing processing time by 30%.

Extracurriculars: Led SRM’s Aaruush committee, organized a 5k marathon with 1,741 participants (recognized by Limca Book of Records).

Leadership/Communication: EMCEE & organizer for SRM cultural fests (50,000+ attendees), strong public speaking and coordination skills.

Certifications: Completed multiple data-related specializations (Stanford, Google, IBM, UPenn, UCDavis, DeepLearning.AI).

Skills: Proficient in Python (Pandas, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow), SQL, Tableau, Data Visualization, and Applied ML for Business.

i am applying for MSBA and want to know which should be my target colleges based on my profile
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