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Hi Consultants,

Please evaluate my profile for MBA colleges.

Academic:
GMAT Score : 710
Toefl : 111
10th : 90%
12th : 85%
B.E. (Comp Sc.) 68%

Work:
Working in a top IT firm in India.(Infosys Ltd.)
Work experience : 4 years (by 2014 intake)

Synopsis of Work ex.:

General/Core Functionality:
- Developing mobile apps on iPhone and iPad for Apple Inc. (client) for past 3 years.
- Part of the core group that set up the Mobile apps development in our D.C. starting off a new thread of business.
Won the Best Tech Initiative award at the whole DC(Development centre) Level for starting off the new thread.

Additional Responsibility:. Following are couple of areas and initiatives:
· Have been working as a project/module lead since my 2nd project itself.
o Have led 4 teams since then.
o Won 2 awards of "Most Spirited Team" amongst them.
· Conduct Training programs for new joiners on mobility. Associated with E&R(Education and Research) group of our company to understand aspects of training.
o Part of core group to design the training program along with other leads.
o Have led the training program on 2 occasions.
o Mentoring new joiners.
· Engaged with the design group of our company, CDG(Corporate Design Group) to design apps.
o Provide UI design solution and consultation of mobile apps to various projects.
· Engaged with CSG (Corporate Sales group) of our company in building proposals to win projects.
o Provide estimation analysis and technical consulting to various projects to build mobile apps.
· Proactively built multiple POC's to be showcased for marketing and bringing new projects.
o Highlight : Showcased an iPad app in the "Innovation Corner" of the 13th SAP Automative forum held in Germany. This was very well received and appreciated by many existing and potential clients.
· Preparing client presentation during their offshore visit. Also, presented and conducted demo on many occasions to client. This was a marketing exercise to expand the horizon of mobility and win new projects.
· Strong Knowledge management ethics. Associated with KM(Knowledge management) group in understanding its aspects and spread the practice.
o Submitted multiple knowledge docs in the Company's Portal.
o Submitted a reusable component. This was used across multiple projects and helped in reducing effort and thus beneficial for both the company and the client.
o Served as KM(Knowledge Management) prime for 2 projects. As KM prime I was involved in understanding and conducting sessions on sensitizing a culture of knowledge management.
· Passed Infosys Training Program with 5/5 CGPA. The course provided by Infosys is considered one of the best training program in software industry. It is spread over 5-6 months and is similar to the 3 year course of B.S. in Computer Science in the US.

Extra curricular:
· Active member of core committee of Sports club. Organized many tournaments.
· Currently residing as lead of Soccer Club.
o Organize 3 tournaments/year
o Currently in the process of organizing Inter Corporate soccer tournament to be held amongst various corporate in the town.
o Captain of the Soccer team of our unit.
· Awardee in junior mathematics olympiad.
· Editor in a quarterly newspaper in our account at work.
· Preparing mailers for various events in the company. This is for promotion of various events ranging from sports to knowledge.
· Awardee of Excellence in Information Technology Awards 2002 conducted by Association of Orissa I.C.S.E. Schools
· Volunteered in SPARK program by Infosys and represented the company in increasing the awareness of Software in Society and raising aspirations.
Interest areas: -Technology management / Strategy / IT Consulting.

Target Colleges: ISB, UCLA, Kelley, UT McCombs, Olin, Duke, Tepper, Darden, Ross, Berkeley

Please evaluate my chances at these colleges and also suggest where I lie according to my profile.
Also, please suggest colleges in Europe that I can target.
Please ignore deadlines while evaluation. I am open to applying next year with 5 years exp.

Thanks in advance.
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by GeneralEducation » Sun Jan 12, 2014 5:21 am
Hi Ankit,

Thanks for sharing detailed profile which really helps to evaluate better. You have decent profile with good GMAT score, academics, extra curricular activities and finally strong work ex. Out of shortlisted schools I can say Berkeley Haas and Darden will be ambitious schools. If you really work hard on your essays and work on building your profile for next 1 year then you have fair chance for most of the shortlisted schools!!
In Europe you can target mainly b-schools in UK like Oxford, Cambridge, IE, IESE, IMD and St Gallen.

Regards,
Manish
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by ankitroy.cs » Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:58 am
Hi Manish,

Thank you for your analysis and your suggestions of college. It is certainly helpful.
Couple of things I want to ask :

- Can you share more insights on building profile that I need to work on?
- Do you feel IE and IESE in spain would be a good place to pursue mba considering the economic scenario of spain?

Regards,
Ankit