Jon
Thanks a lot for your encouragement.
Can you please evaluate my profile for executive MBA! (My apologies for the long post)
Indian Male working in IT Company
Age: 37
ACADEMICS:
GMAT - 760 (Q50, V44), AWA- 5, IR - 2
Graduation (Undergrad) - Got into IIT (Mumbai) in 1993, but had to let it go due to some family problems (Mentioning it as I know you do care for IIT tag�)
- In 1994, secured all India 3rd rank in India's 2nd ranked private engineering college (College overall rank - 8th).
- CGPA - 6.25/10 (not a stellar one - due to some family problems, I can explain it in my essays/interview)
12th - Second rank in college (out of ~150 students)
10th - Second rank in college (out of ~250 students), Math - highest marks in college, 5th highest in district
WORK EXPERIENCE:
"¢ 15+ years of IT industry experience
"¢ 10 year leadership experience including recruitment, mentoring, goal setting, appraisals, career counseling, issue/conflict resolution etc
"¢ I have taken up different roles/responsibilities such as programmer, Tech Lead, Architect, Project Manager, Program Manager Development Manager etc
"¢ Managed 100+ resource and up to $15 million budget
"¢ I have been heavily involved in recruitments. I must have interviewed more than 200 candidates so far.
"¢ First Job - Started with a leading IT company in India. Received 5 promotions in the duration of 6.5 years (batch average ~ 4 promotions).
"¢ Second Job - A fortune 100 company. Received 4 awards in 3 years.
"¢ Third Job - Received 2 awards in 2 years, and then I moved to USA in 2010.
"¢ Fourth Job - I joined a startup 1 year back, primarily to learn how to build clientele and setup office etc. This relates to my long term goal of setting up my own IT Company.
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
"¢ In 12th, I was student representative in College organizing committee for golden jubilee celebrations.
"¢ I was College chess champ and college team captain in engineering college
"¢ I played for state chess team for 2 years (may not mention it in application as I may have lost all the certificates)
"¢ I was General Secretary Photography society in engineering college
"¢ An amateur poet (haven't written anything in the last 7-8 years)
"¢ Formed a small group of friends and taught village kids for 3 years
"¢ I was member of organizing committee for Annual festival
"¢ Worked as a volunteer in 'National Youth festival'
"¢ Member - Dramatics society, Hostel cricket team
"¢ In-charge - hostel mess committee, hostel reading room
"¢ In the first job, I used to conduct regular K-Hour (Knowledge hour) sessions on Chess and Photography
"¢ In the first job, I used to be the official photographer for all the center level events/festivals in the office.
"¢ In the second job, I used to conduct regular knowledge sessions on Photography
"¢ In the second job, I was a member of recreation committee that was responsible for organizing all the quarterly events, quizzes, fun activities etc
"¢ In the 2nd/3rd job, supported blind schools/ elementary schools through CSR.
"¢ I worked (sporadically) in a leading NGO for 5 years. Most of the time, I worked on events/activities related to environmental issues such as Global warming, Carbon footprint etc.
"¢ In 2008, I co-founded a society to fight against a fraud realtor. Right now we have more than 300 registered members in the society. Fight is still on!
HOBBIES
"¢ Fountain pen collection
"¢ Silver coin collection
"¢ Playing chess
"¢ Photography
REASONS FOR EXEC-MBA
I want to start my own IT Company focused on Cyber security and Virtualization space. Though I have leadership experience in IT domain, I do not have skills to run IT as a business. I want to learn these skills from the best brains in the industry. Also, exec-MBA will give me enough networking opportunities that might come handy while setting up my company.
I have a target of setting up a company with at-least 50 headcount in India by 2017. I know I am starting late, but better late than never.
TARGET COLLEGE - Wharton, Booth, Kelloggs, Berkeley
