Ask Stacy Blackman

Hi Stacy,

I recently gave GMAT and got a pathatic 650

I would be really thankful if you can review my profile and help me in identifying the best fit B-schools where I can apply for fall 2009. Following are my filters;
1. A 1 year or 18 months program.
2. I'll prefer B-schools in Asia (reason:funding)
3. My wish list was : ISB, Darden, Johnson (Cornell Univ.), Said and NUS (in the same order), but post GMAT, I think I need to relook at it..

My profile details;
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Male/Indian/IT

GMAT - 650 (Quant-48, Verbal-32)

Schooling
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1). Senior secondary (10th) - 70%
2). Senior secondary cetificate (10+2) - 85%
3). Engineering (Electronics & Comm.) - 78.63%
4). Executive MBA (Certification), General management, IIM calcutta - CGPA 3.2/4.0

Certifications
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1). CCNA

Work experience
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-Total approx. 5 years in IT (services-2.5 (Indian IT services firm) ; product development + management-2.5(US based, well known software product firm))

-Assisting product manager in Inforation gathering (MI), PRD, MRD formulation.
-Involved in few of sales presentations.
-Work with product development and quality assurance team.
-Led a team of 15 people for about an year. Handled quaterly billing, invoicing, resource procurement.
-Proposed a service offering which didn't made it to market tough.
-Represented business unit in inter-unit architectural team.

-Did an M&A consulting project/study for a bangalore based startup as an intern during my executive MBA.
-Participated in few B-Plans contest.

Awards/publications
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-won the top most individual award in my previous firm (given to top 5% employees on basis of their performance in FY, company strength-50,000+)
-paper on 'agile software development using open source and SOA' published in annual architecture confrence in previous firm (Indian IT services gaint).
-multiple awards for outstanding performance in current organisation.
-Represented college in an ACM-ICPC, a coding competition sponsered by ACM and IBM, on Asia level.
-Was the vice president of Student's association for two consecutive terms.
-Won multiple awards for quizzing, paper presentation, conducting/organising seminars on state and district level during college.

Extracurricular
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-Directing, scripting plays.
-Blogging, writing poetry and short stories.
-Volenteer for a NGO working for urban developement and governance.
-Vice captain for corporate cricket team of the firm. Represented BU and department in cricket championships in previous organisation and college respectively.

interests
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History(Ancient/Medival India, World wars)
Mythology(Indian, Egyptian)
Economics(Macro)
Product marketing/Strategy/Consumer behaviour