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04 Oct 2009, 10:36
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GMAT expected 720
Target schools
1 year MBA
1) IE Spain
2) Cambridge Judge
3) Oxford SAID
4) ISB
Academics
1) Engineering in telecommunication from a top ten university in India with a CGPA of 7.93 (close to 3.5 I guess)
2) Stood rank 64 among more than 200000 Engineering applicants (scored 99 percentile in Engineering entrance and a admission cut off 99 percentile as well)
3) Completed 4 level in CFP (certified financial planning)
Work Experience
1) Working for an IT consulting company ( which is CMM level 5 and one of the global top 10) in Quality assurance for ecommerce applications and 2.5 out of 4.3 years total experience ( will be 5 years on admission) in Toronto working with multinational client teams
A. Underwent training and worked at team member level for first 9 months
B. Promoted to module leader role at 10th month of my work experience, Since then worked in leadership roles
C. Managed projects worth 10 million dollars (total project worth) and peak team size of 15
D. Always been a high performer, top ranked during performance ratings (5 rated for 5 half yearly rating which is top 5% among 120000 employees)
E. Involved in Client Management for the past 2.5 years and managed projects for clients involving multiple vendors ( which includes competitors of my company)
F. Very resourceful , enthusiastic and treated on par with 7 to 8 years experience professional. I am the youngest in the team lead group of my account (account size 120 associates).
G. All my projects involved direct interaction with Business teams in particular with the marketing teams and have a great understanding of IT-Business collaboration and good Business acumen.
H. Spearheaded lot of initiatives (beyond regular project works) such as establishing process/strategies for QA Management, defining KPI and tracking, cost cutting strategies , knowledge management etc
I. Spearheaded Business proposals for my company and also helped presales team in multi million dollar proposals
J. When my client company decided to move from legacy waterfall delivery model to Agile, I am one of the key member included to pilot Agile, establish process, train associates in the new delivery model
K. Currently owning entire QA of an Ecommerce application which is critical for Clients sales & revenue and managing both Agile projects along with regular waterfall model projects
2) Worked part time as a financial advisor in Aviva Insurance company and later promoted as trainer to the advisors. Completed FPSB certification in Risk Analysis and Insurance, Indian Taxation & Estate management, Investment planning, Retirement and Employee benefits.
Extra curricular
1) Founder President of an NGO working in India on Anti corruption, improvement of Education for govt school students (Govt owned schools in India are not as great as in US). I was working with multiple NGOs and leading multiple CSR teams , but I thought that I have the ability to do more than just funding a NGO, teaching students or organizing an event. I always dreamed of making the basic amenities and equitable benefits accessible to the common man which is a close to impossible in the corrupted political and bureaucratic government, ignorant and negligent attitude of the poverty or below poverty class. This lead me to found Hope India Foundation to make my dream possible primarily using RTI and anti-corruption. Initially I had great challenges to inspire people to follow my vision since anti-corruption or educating a common man to stand for his rights is a long term activity and people involved need long persistence and continuos motivation till they see the harvest on what they sow. After my encounter with Mr. B. Nirmal ( Founder of Exnora international) and Parivartan ( a leading organization working on RTI awareness and Anti-corruption) , I could clearly justify my goals, strategize a road map for my organization, formulate actionable plans which convinced people to join my organization. After this kick start, our team stays strong and increasing creating meaningful change in the society. We also acknowledged that we would need quick wins to motivate the team and formulated our activities accordingly.
2) Have provided consulting services to many organizations in achieving their corporate social responsibility goals. Formed two Corporate Social responsibility clubs for my employer from scratch which includes defining mission and goals, team ramp up, activities road map, defining performance indicators and expansion strategy, budget and funding and connected the clubs to various deserving NGOs
3) President of Students association in my college. Prior to taking up this role worked with the Student association for two years as organization secretary. Prior to my office, the students organization had no regular activities, participation limited to only final year students ( less avenues for junior to participate or contribute) , only focused on a yearly college event. As a President, I was responsible to bring about a transformation which includes creating a platform for all the students to exhibit both their technical and creative skills, building a participatory environment open, distributing the roles /office of the organization to all year students, formulating key regular activities for the club, founding a student self help group to help students both in their education, funding for poor students and address key students by student themselves, creating a selection process for the organization’s office bearer positions including President and Vice President position. As an outcome, we as a team was able to organize a 7 day yearly event ( usually 2 day technical symposium only) invited participation from about 200 colleges and more than 1000 students. For the first time in the history of our university , we had participation from scientist , a huge press attention and also arranged for a video conferencing with the President of India.
Personality/Passion
I am God fearing and philosophical yet more practical and action oriented. I am very versatile, enthusiastic, diligent and amicable person. I am a self starter, a good team player and also exhibited excellent Leadership both in my professional and personal life.
I always believe in my dreams and fully committed to achieve it. Also have exhibited capacity to inspire and motivate others to fulfill my Vision or objective. I am very sensitive in constantly questioning my status quo, pushing myself out of my comfort zone to scale new heights and strive for new experiences.
Post MBA Goal
Short term
I have decided to specialize in Social Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Strategy. My immediate goal after completing my MBA is to join a consulting firm to work in projects involving CSR consulting for corporate. I want to work with organization like BSR, Monitor consulting as associate /consultant helping corporate to identify, plan and fulfill their social needs or directly work for organization such as One Acre Fund in the Strategic Leadership roles to understand the nuances of a Social enterprise Management, development strategies and various stakeholder needs. I will start my company immediately after my MBA and start piloting with companies and network I have. I have worked directly or indirectly ( through my network) with many corporate helping them in creating road maps for the CSR activities, CSR team formation, employee engagement on CSR.
Long Term
After 2 to 3 years of consulting experience, I would like to start a service company which would function as a consulting and services company catering corporate to meet their social needs. The west world corporate has already acknowledged their social needs and Corporate Social Responsibility has become a buzz word already. This industry is budding in India now and I would time my start up to leverage the boom. My prime mission out of this start up is to bridge the Corporate and deserving NGOs and there by meeting both of their needs. My rich experience with various NGOs and network with various corporate CSR teams would definitely give me a better start.
Target schools
1 year MBA
1) IE Spain
2) Cambridge Judge
3) Oxford SAID
4) ISB
Academics
1) Engineering in telecommunication from a top ten university in India with a CGPA of 7.93 (close to 3.5 I guess)
2) Stood rank 64 among more than 200000 Engineering applicants (scored 99 percentile in Engineering entrance and a admission cut off 99 percentile as well)
3) Completed 4 level in CFP (certified financial planning)
Work Experience
1) Working for an IT consulting company ( which is CMM level 5 and one of the global top 10) in Quality assurance for ecommerce applications and 2.5 out of 4.3 years total experience ( will be 5 years on admission) in Toronto working with multinational client teams
A. Underwent training and worked at team member level for first 9 months
B. Promoted to module leader role at 10th month of my work experience, Since then worked in leadership roles
C. Managed projects worth 10 million dollars (total project worth) and peak team size of 15
D. Always been a high performer, top ranked during performance ratings (5 rated for 5 half yearly rating which is top 5% among 120000 employees)
E. Involved in Client Management for the past 2.5 years and managed projects for clients involving multiple vendors ( which includes competitors of my company)
F. Very resourceful , enthusiastic and treated on par with 7 to 8 years experience professional. I am the youngest in the team lead group of my account (account size 120 associates).
G. All my projects involved direct interaction with Business teams in particular with the marketing teams and have a great understanding of IT-Business collaboration and good Business acumen.
H. Spearheaded lot of initiatives (beyond regular project works) such as establishing process/strategies for QA Management, defining KPI and tracking, cost cutting strategies , knowledge management etc
I. Spearheaded Business proposals for my company and also helped presales team in multi million dollar proposals
J. When my client company decided to move from legacy waterfall delivery model to Agile, I am one of the key member included to pilot Agile, establish process, train associates in the new delivery model
K. Currently owning entire QA of an Ecommerce application which is critical for Clients sales & revenue and managing both Agile projects along with regular waterfall model projects
2) Worked part time as a financial advisor in Aviva Insurance company and later promoted as trainer to the advisors. Completed FPSB certification in Risk Analysis and Insurance, Indian Taxation & Estate management, Investment planning, Retirement and Employee benefits.
Extra curricular
1) Founder President of an NGO working in India on Anti corruption, improvement of Education for govt school students (Govt owned schools in India are not as great as in US). I was working with multiple NGOs and leading multiple CSR teams , but I thought that I have the ability to do more than just funding a NGO, teaching students or organizing an event. I always dreamed of making the basic amenities and equitable benefits accessible to the common man which is a close to impossible in the corrupted political and bureaucratic government, ignorant and negligent attitude of the poverty or below poverty class. This lead me to found Hope India Foundation to make my dream possible primarily using RTI and anti-corruption. Initially I had great challenges to inspire people to follow my vision since anti-corruption or educating a common man to stand for his rights is a long term activity and people involved need long persistence and continuos motivation till they see the harvest on what they sow. After my encounter with Mr. B. Nirmal ( Founder of Exnora international) and Parivartan ( a leading organization working on RTI awareness and Anti-corruption) , I could clearly justify my goals, strategize a road map for my organization, formulate actionable plans which convinced people to join my organization. After this kick start, our team stays strong and increasing creating meaningful change in the society. We also acknowledged that we would need quick wins to motivate the team and formulated our activities accordingly.
2) Have provided consulting services to many organizations in achieving their corporate social responsibility goals. Formed two Corporate Social responsibility clubs for my employer from scratch which includes defining mission and goals, team ramp up, activities road map, defining performance indicators and expansion strategy, budget and funding and connected the clubs to various deserving NGOs
3) President of Students association in my college. Prior to taking up this role worked with the Student association for two years as organization secretary. Prior to my office, the students organization had no regular activities, participation limited to only final year students ( less avenues for junior to participate or contribute) , only focused on a yearly college event. As a President, I was responsible to bring about a transformation which includes creating a platform for all the students to exhibit both their technical and creative skills, building a participatory environment open, distributing the roles /office of the organization to all year students, formulating key regular activities for the club, founding a student self help group to help students both in their education, funding for poor students and address key students by student themselves, creating a selection process for the organization’s office bearer positions including President and Vice President position. As an outcome, we as a team was able to organize a 7 day yearly event ( usually 2 day technical symposium only) invited participation from about 200 colleges and more than 1000 students. For the first time in the history of our university , we had participation from scientist , a huge press attention and also arranged for a video conferencing with the President of India.
Personality/Passion
I am God fearing and philosophical yet more practical and action oriented. I am very versatile, enthusiastic, diligent and amicable person. I am a self starter, a good team player and also exhibited excellent Leadership both in my professional and personal life.
I always believe in my dreams and fully committed to achieve it. Also have exhibited capacity to inspire and motivate others to fulfill my Vision or objective. I am very sensitive in constantly questioning my status quo, pushing myself out of my comfort zone to scale new heights and strive for new experiences.
Post MBA Goal
Short term
I have decided to specialize in Social Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Strategy. My immediate goal after completing my MBA is to join a consulting firm to work in projects involving CSR consulting for corporate. I want to work with organization like BSR, Monitor consulting as associate /consultant helping corporate to identify, plan and fulfill their social needs or directly work for organization such as One Acre Fund in the Strategic Leadership roles to understand the nuances of a Social enterprise Management, development strategies and various stakeholder needs. I will start my company immediately after my MBA and start piloting with companies and network I have. I have worked directly or indirectly ( through my network) with many corporate helping them in creating road maps for the CSR activities, CSR team formation, employee engagement on CSR.
Long Term
After 2 to 3 years of consulting experience, I would like to start a service company which would function as a consulting and services company catering corporate to meet their social needs. The west world corporate has already acknowledged their social needs and Corporate Social Responsibility has become a buzz word already. This industry is budding in India now and I would time my start up to leverage the boom. My prime mission out of this start up is to bridge the Corporate and deserving NGOs and there by meeting both of their needs. My rich experience with various NGOs and network with various corporate CSR teams would definitely give me a better start.
04 Oct 2009, 20:54
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Honestly I think you'll be fine at the schools you listed - you should be able to get into at least one (and probably a few) of them assuming your GMAT is competitive (above 700). You sound like you know what you want and you have the experience to back it up (you have strong professional and extracurriculars that serve as a good foundation for your career goals) so that it comes down to how effective you are at conveying this in your written application and interviews.
05 Oct 2009, 10:23
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Thanks Alex for your response.
I have Stanford also in my list ( only 2 year programme) , what will be your opinion on my fit to Stanford and how competitive my profile and post mba plans would be
