Request for profile evaluation
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11 May 2018, 01:53
Nationality: Indian
Gender: male, Age - 30
GMAT: 700 – Q 48, V 39, IR 7, AWA – awaited (First attempt)
Education
Postgrad: 2 year Full-time MBA in Marketing (Technically a Post Grad Diploma in Management, PGDM) from a top 20 B-School in India, GPA – 7.14/10. CAT score to get in – 94 percentile. CAT is Indian counterpart of GMAT.
Undergrad: Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from an average Indian university, Score – 65.3% (not sure how to convert)
School – 80% in both senior and high school
Work Experience – 5 years 5 months
1. Deputy Manager - Bid Management for a leading Indian IT Outsourcer (3 years)
This is post my MBA. It’s a Business Development/Pre-sales role. I manage end-to-end bid lifecycles of RFPs ($10-50 million) related to Enterprise IT services for leading MNCs. The role comprises of managing the bid process, managing internal stakeholders and the proposal deliverables, customer requirement analysis, developing IT solutions according to customer’s needs and according to standardized frameworks, undertaking solution discussion/due-diligence meetings/workshops with customer stakeholders at various stages of the bid, managing customer visits to Service Delivery Centres, managing product demos, doing the pricing for the proposal based on various pricing models, create solution presentation and the proposal documents, doing market research on IT trends etc.
Worked on RFPs from customers in various sectors - Telecom, Manufacturing, Banking, Media, Public Services and Energy and Utilities etc.
International experience – This is in the form of short-term visits to client location for meetings, as I mentioned above.
2. Software Engineer - another leading Indian IT Outsourcer (2 years 3 months)
This is kind of a usual “Indian IT Software Development” experience. Worked as a Developer to implement Software Enhancements and Maintenance of software applications and products for leading Hi-Tech and Telecom clients
3. Program Coordinator for a leading Indian NGO – 3 months
Short stint at an NGO just after my undergrad. I was actively involved in coordination of the NGO’s educational initiatives in different northern states of India. Did Recruitment and Training (English/Computers/Soft Skills) of the Trainers (who would then go on to teach the children), content management etc.
4. MBA Summer Internship– 3 months (haven’t counted this in)
Summer project involved formulating a Go-To-Market Strategy for a portfolio company of a private equity firm. This portfolio company is in the private tuitions business.
Management related extra-curricular
1. Published Ivey Case Study on Ecommerce in collaboration with B-school professor and few other batchmates
2. Management related Competitions/Presentations – Won a corporate sponsored case study analysis competition, participated in other Indian Business schools management fests, was part of managing my college’s management fest.
3. Short Term Projects – One for a Mid-cap Indian IT firm and another for an Indian Cafe chain. Both related to marketing/brand mgmt.
4. Certification in ‘Strategic Management and Leadership’, conducted by the B-School through a professional intermediary
Other extra-curricular
Volunteering/Social work
a. As mentioned above, I worked full time at an NGO after my undergrad, although for only 3 months
b. During my second job I used to volunteer on weekends for a local NGO. Used to teach kids and helped the NGO with its software database.
c. Recently engaged in weekend volunteering (again, teaching kids) organised by my company.
Sports
An avid player of a racquet sport with multiple achievements in the sport over more than 16 years. Recently represented my company at an inter-corporate tournament and won gold.
Music
Level 2 Violinist, ABRSM 2017. Working towards higher levels now.
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Post-MBA Goals:
Would like to move into strategy consulting
My Schools:
Here I need help. I would like to make it to the top 20 in US or to places like INSEAD, HEC, LBS etc. Please suggest.
Some questions:
1. Will my score be a problem, for both admission and financial assistance?
2. Will my first mba be an advantage or a problem?
3. Does my business development experience in IT also count as “Indian Male IT experience”, hence denting my chances?
I welcome any other suggestions. Thanks!