Paul,
Sorry for taking the post structure from someone else and for writing my brief resume here. I thought it will give you better insight.
Age : 30 by Sep 2009
Nationality: Indian
(Married and living in US since Mar 2005)
Languages : English, Hindi
Stats : 740 (balanced score on quant and verbal) and 5 on AWA [Test taken: Oct 2005]
Exp: 83 months by Sep 2009
Education:
2002 – INDIA - B. Tech (engineering) from REC, Kurukshetra (Now NIT) – 77% [5th in class]
Professional Experience as of Today:
- Sr. Consultant - Clearing House (Since last 4 months)
Lead a team (4 analysts) to validate the CBOE range options product
- Project Manger - Top IT consulting company
Client: For Fortune 50 bank
Lead 3 projects with 6 analysts and 8 business user’s team for developing deal management and trade surveillance models for the bank.
- Manager- Top data services company
Client: Fortune 100 Retail Ind. Company
Established and supervised team, processes
- Business Analyst / Onsite Coordinator - Top IT consulting company (Indian)
Client: For Fortune 200 Pharma
GAP Analysis; supervised team, implemented best practices
- Business Analyst
Client: 2nd largest bank in India
coordinated with 18 zonal team (by actually travelling to places)
Delivered projects on time on budget
Additional
- Incorporated a company – failed due to operational issues with no revenue– entity still exists (should I mention this in my app?)
- Last year, started a group (not incorporated) to help disadvantaged children last year raised $1000; this year associating formally with NGOs in India and US to make it a formal program.
- Back in college: conducted a mock entrance exam; managed 2000 enrollments and Rs 500,000 revenue.
- Organized national level college festival (Budget Rs 500,000) as a board member of organizing committee
Why MBA :
Short Term: Get into bulge bracket bank’s corporate fin. advisory department – Do M&A / deal making
Long term: Start a business
1. Which top 10 schools do I stand the best chance?
a. Long Shots:
b. Reach (if any):
c. Safe <Not considering for now> will have to forgo 120K+ salary + it will be hard to do M&A stuff. What do you think?
2. Any Other Suggestions:
Thank you for taking the time and going through my mess