Intern
Joined: 26 Oct 2011
Posts: 19
Location: Canada
Concentration: Technology, Strategy
GPA: 4
WE:Information Technology (Telecommunications)
Profile eval please - thanks in advance!
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27 Oct 2011, 21:16
Hi,
Here is my profile for evaluation:
Demographic: 29/M/Chinese-Canadian
Education:
- B.Sc. in Computer Science from UBC, GPA 4.0, May 2005
- GMAT 740 (V42, Q49)
Work: 7 years 5 months by Sept 2012
- currently: 6 years at major Canadian telecom, started in new grad leadership dev program, then promoted to IT manager, now managing self-created team in social media and emerging tech
- prior interships during university - 1 year in Denmark biotech company, 8 months in government, all IT-related
Extracurriculars: (probably weakest part of my application)
- long term mentoring of university students, colleagues, and others, Sr. industry mentor at alma mater
- self-taught acoustic guitar player, perform at concerts
- organised various concerts and fundraisers, but mostly at work
- working towards private pilots license
Goals:
- during MBA: internships and case studies in IT and social media fields, build business foundation
- post MBA: IT consulting in Asia (for personal + professional reasons)
- dream: fix China - disappointed at a society in moral decline, and feel a sense of duty to do something about it through successful business and IT ventures
Schools: (all-in, no safety)
- Harvard, Stanford, Wharton (Lauder MBA/MA), MIT Sloan, Columbia, Kellogg
Thoughts?
Thanks,
David