Profile Eval Request
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21 Jul 2015, 10:25
• 3.4 GPA in mechanical engineering from a top Canadian university (last year 3.7)
-Studied one semester abroad in Germany
-Undertook a summer research internship at a gov’t nanotech research lab, and authored an article that was published in a peer-reviewed journal
• 740 GMAT (48Q, 42V, 6AW, 8IR)
• 3 years work exp as a Project Engineer with one Canada’s largest construction contractors
-Recently promoted to Project Manager (typically takes 6-8 years at my company)
-Managed procurement, construction, and commissioning phases of projects with increasing value and complexity (up to $120MM)
-Have exceeded target profit margins on my last 3 projects (by up to 3x in one case), and completed all ahead of schedule
• Board member of a multinational non-profit that promotes PD for young engineers
• Teach pro-bono music lessons 2 nights/week; partnered with local charity to fund instrument rentals for kids from low-income households
• Why an MBA now: I’ve learned a lot about how things are built, now I want to learn why they are built. A foundation in economics, finance, and strategy will allow me to return to major projects on the client side, evaluating new projects for risk and ROI, and then running them
• 25 year-old white male
• Target schools: London Business School, Oxford, Cambridge, NYU Stern, Berkeley Haas. I've been to the Stanford GSB campus and loved it, but I don't think I have the "wow" factor necessary to bother applying there.