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Hi there,

I would like you to evaluate my profile.Im looking for an one year or 15 months max MBA 2011 batch.Im in the process of preparing for GMAT now.

Background about my profile:

Female/Age:26/Indian
Work experience-Overall 6 years on matriculating.Experince in IT in various domain like Retailing,healthcare,Finance & now presently in telecom.Worked with top MNC's from India
International exposure-3 years in UK,US(denver)& Germany.
Educational Background-Bachelor in Science (Biology)
Master degree (part-time)-IT & systems management

Highlights

1.I started as Junior analyst & then got promoted in 2 years as Business analyst quickly transformed into various domains from finance till telecom.Currently working as Senior business analyst
-worked on some of the key project which includes some of the key process changes for government of India financial process.
-awarded team player award in year 2008 by the company
-With retailing project was deputed to Atlanta & worked closley with stakeholders in conductind workshops,gathering requirements& transformed the same in to fucntionla IT specifications.
-Worked on Major technologies like SAP,Siebel& CRM databases with Finance & telecom
-Involved from initial pilot stage till implementation of the project phase in customer locations like UK & Germany.The telecom clients i worked are considered to be second largest in europe.
-Recently got promoted as senior business analyst & trained more than 6 people on board.
-Provided Pre-sales It solutions & worked closely with the Sales proposals of the project
-can get best recommendation letters from Supervisor as well as from Clients.
-Good analytical & leadership skills.

Extra curricular activities

-School captain for basket ball team cosecutive 3 years
-Science department representative for sports,cultural programmes & recruitment division for all 3 years
-Also worked part-time in one of the radio channels in India few years in College,I was hosting a show for youth mainly
focussed on whats new in the city,sports update,cookery tips ,best consumer products etc.,This show picked up many listeners for radio station.
-Have done basic German course from Deutsche academy
-have done back-pack trips to almost all places in europe ,well aware of the cultutal differences with nationalities.
-Awarded Role model award for the 2 consecutive quarters in my project.
-I associated with company NGO representative for social services in southern part of India & use to teach basic
education up till age of 12.Conducted campaigning programmes for AIDS & physically challenged people & gathered audience to contribute for such organizations.



The question i would like to ask are below

1.since i have done my Undergraduation which is 3 yrs will it be a problem ?My overall percentage is 70%.& Master percentage is 76%
I see U.S this is quite competitive with the other Indian candidates applying normally engineering & im not sure how well my
part-time degree will be considered.

2.Post MBA i would like to take go in telecom marketing something like Product manager,marketing officer..The reason being
so far i have done the lower level IT requirements which come from the marketing team but my asipiration is to become a product manager or marketing manager
to perform marketing analysis ,launch new products for the company,improvise sales,customer campaigning etc.,

3.What kind of GMAT score i should target for since i come from a sceince background?the admission commitee might expect high score??IS it true

4.could you also suggest some good US/UK b schools that can fulfill my asipiration??mainly interested on U.S MBA's

5.Few of my friends joined HUlt international business school since they are not listed in FT rankings what is your opinion about such school..3
Is my profile competent enough for top schools or not.

Please suggest..thanks for your time so far.

Regards
Sanjana