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23 Jul 2007, 16:47
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GMAT: 740 (48Q/42V)
Academics
- BS in Marine Engineering with Facilities Engineering Minor from a specialized maritime school.
- 3.4 GPA top 10% of class and %5 for major. Weak sophomore year brought me down but had Avg 3.7 over final two years.
- Every year I spent 2 months on large ships sailing to different areas of the world.
Coast Guard Licensed engineer.
Full time Work experience
I worked for the Department of the Navy as a nuclear engineer for 5 years (6 at matriculation).
- 2 years of work experience as an Assistant Nuclear Test Engineer
- 2 years as a Nuclear Refueling Facilities Engineer.
- 1 year as a Lead Nuclear Refueling Facilities Engineer.
Having spent some time reading what schools look for and evaluating what my work entails I have several solid examples of improvements I have made to our work that have made significant improvements with both our processes and personnel performances. My department head loves a few of the things I managed to get implemented...its tough with the government way of doing things to get changes done. Solid statistics to back up the improvements to be sited in recommendations.
Leadership: I am pretty sure I have enough solid examples to show good leadership at work and during college. I have specific examples to use in essays and interviews.
- Undergrad:
I attended a military academy (not federal service). So as an upperclassman I was an officer and did all the usual military school things; inspections of underclassman and their rooms, ran cleaning stations, ran watches, sat on discipline boards...
- Work:
Leadership has expanded due to a restructuring of responsibilities in my area. Now have a much larger role with our security element. Lots of oversite of the mechanics, job overview, monitoring work. I also am tasked with a lot of our evaluations following problems and coming up with solutions to prevent them. These are implement from top to bottom so I actually can change some how my bosses do things...I also have done some training on our newer engineers.
Extracurricular: weak point since college...
- Over the past few years my time has been consumed with planned a wedding and remodeling my house...seriously anyone who has done either realizes how time consuming they are.
- In college, I helped start a fishing/outdoors club and a photography club.
- Was a ski coach for 4 years
- Competed in freestyle ski events, big air and half pipe.
- Avid photographer
Community activities: lacking
- Honestly, unfortunately outside of work and completely renovating a 150 year old house I have no time to do any volunteering. I see this as and lack of a brand name undergrad as my huge weak points. Hoping if I get interviewed that its with a newly wed who owns an antique home.
Long term career goals -
Would like to go into general management in the renewable energy field. Specifically nuclear since that is what I am most knowledgeable/interested in and will provide the most logical career path for me at this point. Helps that companies are starting to apply for new reactor licenses so there should be plenty of growth. Even environmental groups are supporting them due to zero carbon emissions and global warming...I am looking at schools that have strong GM programs, having something related to what I want in the area would help as examples. Exelon (largest nuclear operator) headquartered in Chicago, Westinghouse is in Pittsburgh, and General Electric is in CT, so its near NYC and Boston. Since I am targeting schools in these areas its nice to know there are things around there related to my goals that I can use in essays and interviews.
My target schools -
The wife has decided its time for a change for her too. Just doesn't want to move south of the Mason Dixon line. So pretty much everything other than the south...
Right now the list is: Northwestern/Chicago, MIT, Tuck, NYU, CMU, and a safety if I get dinged by the R1 schools.
Academics
- BS in Marine Engineering with Facilities Engineering Minor from a specialized maritime school.
- 3.4 GPA top 10% of class and %5 for major. Weak sophomore year brought me down but had Avg 3.7 over final two years.
- Every year I spent 2 months on large ships sailing to different areas of the world.
Coast Guard Licensed engineer.
Full time Work experience
I worked for the Department of the Navy as a nuclear engineer for 5 years (6 at matriculation).
- 2 years of work experience as an Assistant Nuclear Test Engineer
- 2 years as a Nuclear Refueling Facilities Engineer.
- 1 year as a Lead Nuclear Refueling Facilities Engineer.
Having spent some time reading what schools look for and evaluating what my work entails I have several solid examples of improvements I have made to our work that have made significant improvements with both our processes and personnel performances. My department head loves a few of the things I managed to get implemented...its tough with the government way of doing things to get changes done. Solid statistics to back up the improvements to be sited in recommendations.
Leadership: I am pretty sure I have enough solid examples to show good leadership at work and during college. I have specific examples to use in essays and interviews.
- Undergrad:
I attended a military academy (not federal service). So as an upperclassman I was an officer and did all the usual military school things; inspections of underclassman and their rooms, ran cleaning stations, ran watches, sat on discipline boards...
- Work:
Leadership has expanded due to a restructuring of responsibilities in my area. Now have a much larger role with our security element. Lots of oversite of the mechanics, job overview, monitoring work. I also am tasked with a lot of our evaluations following problems and coming up with solutions to prevent them. These are implement from top to bottom so I actually can change some how my bosses do things...I also have done some training on our newer engineers.
Extracurricular: weak point since college...
- Over the past few years my time has been consumed with planned a wedding and remodeling my house...seriously anyone who has done either realizes how time consuming they are.
- In college, I helped start a fishing/outdoors club and a photography club.
- Was a ski coach for 4 years
- Competed in freestyle ski events, big air and half pipe.
- Avid photographer
Community activities: lacking
- Honestly, unfortunately outside of work and completely renovating a 150 year old house I have no time to do any volunteering. I see this as and lack of a brand name undergrad as my huge weak points. Hoping if I get interviewed that its with a newly wed who owns an antique home.
Long term career goals -
Would like to go into general management in the renewable energy field. Specifically nuclear since that is what I am most knowledgeable/interested in and will provide the most logical career path for me at this point. Helps that companies are starting to apply for new reactor licenses so there should be plenty of growth. Even environmental groups are supporting them due to zero carbon emissions and global warming...I am looking at schools that have strong GM programs, having something related to what I want in the area would help as examples. Exelon (largest nuclear operator) headquartered in Chicago, Westinghouse is in Pittsburgh, and General Electric is in CT, so its near NYC and Boston. Since I am targeting schools in these areas its nice to know there are things around there related to my goals that I can use in essays and interviews.
My target schools -
The wife has decided its time for a change for her too. Just doesn't want to move south of the Mason Dixon line. So pretty much everything other than the south...
Right now the list is: Northwestern/Chicago, MIT, Tuck, NYU, CMU, and a safety if I get dinged by the R1 schools.
24 Jul 2007, 20:34
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Your background and career goals are a hand in glove fit -- easy sell. Much easier than most of the career stories people try to cobble together. That means a lot! I wouldn't worry about the lack of the undergrad brand. And on community service, I tend to think admin are happy to see to military service as a broader form of community service, so I don't you'll get dinged too hard on that. Plus your career aspirations can have community service bent to it -- I just wouldn't mention that little issue in Japan.
BTW, you may be better off with an interviewer who is single and has the antique house that still requires a bunch of work.
BTW, you may be better off with an interviewer who is single and has the antique house that still requires a bunch of work.
