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pranavspearhead
Joined: 16 Jul 2014
Last visit: 08 Jan 2017
Posts: 13
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Location: India
Name: Pranav Sharma
Concentration: Operations, Finance
Schools: Kenan-Flagler '18 (I) Krannert '18 (II) Tepper '18 (S) Smeal Penn'18 Carlson '18 (II) Fisher '18 ISB '17 W. P. Carey Arizona State '18 McCombs '18 Smith '18 Urbana-Champaign '18 Marshall '18 Broad '19 (D)
GMAT 1: 710 Q50 V37
GPA: 3.02
Schools: Kenan-Flagler '18 (I) Krannert '18 (II) Tepper '18 (S) Smeal Penn'18 Carlson '18 (II) Fisher '18 ISB '17 W. P. Carey Arizona State '18 McCombs '18 Smith '18 Urbana-Champaign '18 Marshall '18 Broad '19 (D)
GMAT 1: 710 Q50 V37
Posts: 13
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03 Jan 2016, 07:57
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Hello Jon ,
Please evaluate my profile and highlight the roadblocks that i might face in getting admits. Below are the Highlights of my Profile:
Pool: Indian/Male/IT (on the up side I am not a developer/tester; working as a IT Business Consultant)
GMAT: 710, Q50, V 36, IR 7, AWA: 5
TOEFL: 112/120
GPA: 7.18/10, from National Institute of Technology.
EXPERIENCE
Infosys Ltd., Chandigarh, India
Business Process Consultant – CARD project.
● Developed and presented 2 proposals to senior leadership resulting in new business of $100K for Infosys.
● Initiated execution of lean technology solutions that reduced the data storage cost by $500M per annum.
● Developed a global user creation template to reduce the redundancies in reporting and master data by 98%.
● Analyzed and consolidated customer solutions from different geographies resulting in harmonization and improvement in data quality.
● Redesigned data entry process from third party to SAP systems to reduce performance issues by 80% and improve productivity by 50%.
● Managed a team of 14 members to ensure quality deliverables through advanced testing methodologies, resulting in 0 field issues.
Technology Consultant – Logistics optimization projects
● Implemented unique identification functionality to enable reverse logistics, reward system for loyal customers and curb check fraud.
● Setup a new Uruguay HUB to optimize product movement in Latin America, leading to tax savings of 35%.
● Led a team of 5 members to automate BoM update process with hazardous material specifications to reduce activity time by 80%.
● Streamlined material management for Syngenta Brazil location to cut material maintenance costs by 30%.
● Developed a standardized training plan and conducted interviews to identify and nurture new talent for the project, cutting down the on boarding time by 30%.
Systems Engineer – MDM-M Integration
● Integrated the legacy systems of the client using data modelling techniques, resulting in improvement of productivity by 30% and a reduction in storage cost by 50%.
● Implemented customer and vendor workflows for Singapore HUB to realize tax savings of 40%.
Systems Engineer Trainee
● Graduated from training program with honors, ranking among top 1% of the class
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND SKILLS
● Technical Skills: SAP – MDM, MM, and SD; Microsoft Excel; Microsoft SQL
● Organized a company-wide fashion show with more than 40 participants.
● Organized gaming tournament for national level college fest.
Career Goals: I strongly believe that my work ex maps properly with my goal of getting an MBA degree in SCM. Going forward, I want to see myself in Business consulting industry.
Targets and Challenges:
Target Schools: Broad, Kenan Flagler, Tepper, Marshall, Smeal. Particularly, Broad since it is ranked 2nd in SCM.
I will really appreciate if you can give me some pointers to portray my existing profile in a better way.
Finally, really appreciate you spending time to evaluate my profile.
Regards,
Pranav.
Please evaluate my profile and highlight the roadblocks that i might face in getting admits. Below are the Highlights of my Profile:
Pool: Indian/Male/IT (on the up side I am not a developer/tester; working as a IT Business Consultant)
GMAT: 710, Q50, V 36, IR 7, AWA: 5
TOEFL: 112/120
GPA: 7.18/10, from National Institute of Technology.
EXPERIENCE
Infosys Ltd., Chandigarh, India
Business Process Consultant – CARD project.
● Developed and presented 2 proposals to senior leadership resulting in new business of $100K for Infosys.
● Initiated execution of lean technology solutions that reduced the data storage cost by $500M per annum.
● Developed a global user creation template to reduce the redundancies in reporting and master data by 98%.
● Analyzed and consolidated customer solutions from different geographies resulting in harmonization and improvement in data quality.
● Redesigned data entry process from third party to SAP systems to reduce performance issues by 80% and improve productivity by 50%.
● Managed a team of 14 members to ensure quality deliverables through advanced testing methodologies, resulting in 0 field issues.
Technology Consultant – Logistics optimization projects
● Implemented unique identification functionality to enable reverse logistics, reward system for loyal customers and curb check fraud.
● Setup a new Uruguay HUB to optimize product movement in Latin America, leading to tax savings of 35%.
● Led a team of 5 members to automate BoM update process with hazardous material specifications to reduce activity time by 80%.
● Streamlined material management for Syngenta Brazil location to cut material maintenance costs by 30%.
● Developed a standardized training plan and conducted interviews to identify and nurture new talent for the project, cutting down the on boarding time by 30%.
Systems Engineer – MDM-M Integration
● Integrated the legacy systems of the client using data modelling techniques, resulting in improvement of productivity by 30% and a reduction in storage cost by 50%.
● Implemented customer and vendor workflows for Singapore HUB to realize tax savings of 40%.
Systems Engineer Trainee
● Graduated from training program with honors, ranking among top 1% of the class
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND SKILLS
● Technical Skills: SAP – MDM, MM, and SD; Microsoft Excel; Microsoft SQL
● Organized a company-wide fashion show with more than 40 participants.
● Organized gaming tournament for national level college fest.
Career Goals: I strongly believe that my work ex maps properly with my goal of getting an MBA degree in SCM. Going forward, I want to see myself in Business consulting industry.
Targets and Challenges:
Target Schools: Broad, Kenan Flagler, Tepper, Marshall, Smeal. Particularly, Broad since it is ranked 2nd in SCM.
I will really appreciate if you can give me some pointers to portray my existing profile in a better way.
Finally, really appreciate you spending time to evaluate my profile.
Regards,
Pranav.
04 Jan 2016, 13:14
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pranavspearhead
Hey Pranav!
Good to hear from you. So the first "Roadblock" as you put it (although I prefer the term "challenge") is your Pool. It makes things tougher, and you do have to stick out.
It's great that you are in consulting and not in dev, because it's something much closer to B-school work, and there is a lot of consulting Post-MBA that is halfway between business and tech, so you should be able to find your niche and sell yourself very easily.
Otherwise, you have a good GPA from an excellent school and very strong test scores. So those are great!
But you won't be able to "Rest on your laurels", because of your pool you REALLY do need to stand out - with personality, flair and passion. It doesn't mean you have to have crazy goals to run a horse circus
, but it DOES mean that what you submit in your application has to be better than what others are submitting.Otherwise, I think that your school list, taken as a whole, is very fair.
Best,
Jon
