Hello,
Kindly evaluate my profile for the following B-Schools.
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Nationality: Indian
GMAT: 630 - Q46 V31 IR8 AWA-awaited
Target B-schools: INSEAD, HEC, IESE, ESADE, ISB, NTU (mostly 10-15 month programs in EU and Asia)
Education:
SSC - 80.92%
HSC - 75.40%
Bachelor of Engineering - 8.81 / 10 (CGPA) - University rank 11 / 2242 (branch wise - civil engineering) and 63 / 28175 (course wise-Bachelor of Engineering)
Work Experience: 5 years (2.5 years international)
-I work as a civil-structural design engineer (oil and gas sector) in one of the fortune 500 companies. My company is in to the EPC business in the oil, gas and petrochemical business, and designs and constructs petrochemical plants. Recruited via campus placements, I started my career as a team member in large cross cultural and cross functional engineering teams and have worked my way up to an area engineer. I have provided design solutions to projects located in America, Russia and India.
-Worked in Munich, Germany in my company's headquarters for 18 months. I was specifically picked up for this role, an entirely new role in the department, which was a combination of various activities performed by people at various hierarchy levels. My role in Munich was primarily a management cum design role. I got an opportunity to learn and manage various vendors and sub contractors, independently after few months, and also deal directly with the client located on the construction site in Russia. Impressed by my solutions and effective coordination, Client requested my company to shift my base from Munich to their construction site in a small town in Siberia, Russia with higher roles and responsibilities.
-Upon Client's request, I moved from Munich to a small town in Siberia, Russia and worked for 12 months as a field engineer, primary responsibility, supervising construction activities and providing design solutions to one of the largest (4 sq. km in size), upon commissioning, petrochemical plants in Russia. My secondary responsibilities included those of a field engineering manager, in which I was responsible for managing the influx and timely solutions of all construction issues (of all engineering disciplines). Both these roles were independent roles in which I directly interacted frequently with Client's top construction/engineering managers (potential recommendation referee) and my company's top managers (potential recommendation referee). On the construction site, I worked with people of over 15+ nationalities. I am the youngest in my company(1100+ employees) to get such a role.
-Currently, I am working as an area engineer and responsible for all civil structural design activities of a part of a petrochemical plant of the same client mentioned above.
-I am the youngest in my department (140+ employees) to be nominated to my department's CAD managing team and during this role I implemented solutions in the department's CAD software to reduce man-hours of some laborious activities, thereby improving quality of the deliverable. The solutions resulted 30% reduction in the man-hours of those activities.
Extra-curricular:
-I was a part of my school's leadership team four out of six possible times and led the school leadership team two out of the four times. I was awarded a certificate of appreciation, first time in 60 years of my school's history, for the most commendable, selfless and dedicated service as a student leader.
-Organised and managed for two consecutive years state level technical event in my college, with a budget of over Rs. 800,000, which attracted participation of over 2500 engineering students.
-Was awarded by the Vice Chancellor of my university for providing implementable solutions for the improvement of the engineering course.
-Organised many outdoor team building activities for/with my colleagues during my stay in Russia.
-I regularly impart my services to my region's community kitchen.
Other (may be) important info:
-Fluent in 3 languages (read, write and speak) - English, Hindi, Gujarati
-Moderate in 1 language (speak) - Punjabi
-Beginner in 2 languages - Russian and German (A1 level)
-Traveled to 15 countries in last 3 years (2 - for work and 3 - solo travel). To experience the culture and integrate with locals, I always made sure to adopt the way of living of the locals of the region where I lived such as their dressing styles (e.g. wearing lederhosen during celebrations in Germany, local winter clothing in Russia) and food habits.
Future plan:
- Knowing that an MBA will open various doors, I, currently, would like to go in to project management of large scale oil and gas plants. If I get to venture in to other profiles, I would like to do sales/consulting.
Thank you!