businesspassion wrote:
Age:30, Indian origin US resident
Work experience: 10 years in Information technology (2 years in technology, 4 years in program management and 4 years in business development and global delivery). 7 out of 10 years worked in Canada and UK. 1 year in US
Current role: Client Partner , Large IT consulting/solutions company\
Key Responsibilities:
- P/L owner for 4 global business relationships worth 40 Million USD, team geographically spread across in US/South Africa/UK/India.
- Business development strategy involving understanding of customer's business & IT strategy and align offerings accordingly
- Execution of business development strategy including leveraging product partners such as CA, Microsoft, Salesforce etc.
- Preparing a large team to align with customer IT strategy including competency planning involving training of existing resources, hiring new talents and creating center of excellence to leverage larger organizational capabilities
- Managing business relationships with CFOs/CIO & other customer executive leadership
- Establish and execute governance & account management
- Negotiations & contract management
- Create & Execute marketing plan for business development
- Establish and run innovation and proactive problem solution centers addressing customer's critical business/revenue impacting/customer experience problems
- Staying ahead in the technology world by keeping up to date on new technology trends, industry trends etc. to retain credibility as trusted advisor for the customer senior management
- Cross functional team leadership, budget & resource management
- Pioneered Co-Innovation Center of Excellence between customer and my company
Key functions
- Business development & Consultative sales
- Account management
- Customer relationship management
Domain/Industry knowledge/expertise
- Hospitality (entire value chain)
- Telecom
Education:
Bachelor of Engineering, top 10 university in India. 3.4 GPA
Executive certificate in Strategy & Innovation, Sloan school of management, MIT
Graduate of leadership development program in my company
Other activities
- Business partner in a Import/export business in India (importing oceanspray and other US products into India) 2011 to current
- Founder and President of a non -profit organization working in Anti-corruption (2005 to 2010)
- President of students union, 2004 to 2005
GMAT : 720
Post MBA - Consultative sales & Strategy in information technology at large scale (current multi million programs Vs. future multi billion business transformation programs) and long term - Providing IT leadership to large complex enterprise
Why MBA: Gap in ability to thoroughly understand business strategy & all business function to build an aligned IT strategy; Gaps in abilities to provides leadership for organizational innovation
Dream schools : Stanford GSB, MIT Sloan one year program
Other targets : Wharton , Carnegie mellon, Richard IVEY EMBA (Canada)
Please provide me a honest and realistic opinion of my acceptance at my dream and target schools. Also please provide suggestion on other schools that will be a fit to my profile & post MBA goals
Dear Expert@ SBC , If you could provide a review and your suggestion I'd be grateful