Please evaluate my profile. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Nationality: Singaporean
Age:29
Work experience:7years
GMAT: 620 (Q42, Verbal 33),taken twice- latest was yesterday, previously in 2008
BE, Mechanical & Production Engineering Undergrad GPA: 2.75 (NTU, Singapore) 2003
Masters in Precision Eng (part-time): GPA 4.1/5 (NTU, Singapore) 2007
Masters in Applied Finance (part-time): GPA 3.4/4.0 (Singapore MGMT Uni)
CFA level 1 Passed
Work Ex:
5 years for Novellus Systems Inc. (Semiconductor Industry) : 2 years HW Service Engineer, 3 years- Senior Process engineer/Technical Sales Engineer (2 promotions in 5 years). Best employee award for 2/5 years. 2 technical Paper publications. Won Customer service award from client (Work location:split between US/SG)
2 years at SAS Institute Inc. as a Pre-Sales Risk & Advanced Analytics Consultant: Won best Staff Award 2010 - recently helped win a multi million dollar consulting deal with a bank. My work is very quantitative. Led a team of three.
EC: research team member for a transient workers community org. (last 2 years), represented University in cricket team for 4 years. Publications secretary for American society of Mechanical engineer during undergrad.
Preferred Post MBA field: Management/Financial Consulting
Preferred MBA school location: US/CANADA
I realize that my Gmat score is not good, but I feel the need to do an now because of a few factors - career at a stage where MBA will equip me & accelerate my move up, age (I feel i want I need a full time MBA to fully realize its potential and thus want to finish it before marriage), networking in North America to complement my Singapore networks to increase my professional options.
Thanks for your patience with my lengthy post.
Nationality: Singaporean
Age:29
Work experience:7years
GMAT: 620 (Q42, Verbal 33),taken twice- latest was yesterday, previously in 2008
BE, Mechanical & Production Engineering Undergrad GPA: 2.75 (NTU, Singapore) 2003
Masters in Precision Eng (part-time): GPA 4.1/5 (NTU, Singapore) 2007
Masters in Applied Finance (part-time): GPA 3.4/4.0 (Singapore MGMT Uni)
CFA level 1 Passed
Work Ex:
5 years for Novellus Systems Inc. (Semiconductor Industry) : 2 years HW Service Engineer, 3 years- Senior Process engineer/Technical Sales Engineer (2 promotions in 5 years). Best employee award for 2/5 years. 2 technical Paper publications. Won Customer service award from client (Work location:split between US/SG)
2 years at SAS Institute Inc. as a Pre-Sales Risk & Advanced Analytics Consultant: Won best Staff Award 2010 - recently helped win a multi million dollar consulting deal with a bank. My work is very quantitative. Led a team of three.
EC: research team member for a transient workers community org. (last 2 years), represented University in cricket team for 4 years. Publications secretary for American society of Mechanical engineer during undergrad.
Preferred Post MBA field: Management/Financial Consulting
Preferred MBA school location: US/CANADA
I realize that my Gmat score is not good, but I feel the need to do an now because of a few factors - career at a stage where MBA will equip me & accelerate my move up, age (I feel i want I need a full time MBA to fully realize its potential and thus want to finish it before marriage), networking in North America to complement my Singapore networks to increase my professional options.
Thanks for your patience with my lengthy post.
