Stratford High Graduate (1991), Houston Texas, I Admission Essay

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Stratford High graduate (1991), Houston Texas, I gained my first exposure to the importance of applying management principles in High School, when I owned and operated a Yard Service. The experience was invaluable since it taught me the art of customer acquisition and retention and how a customer centric approach was key to success in business. During the same time, I also served as a Lifeguard at some of the neighbourhood pools, which gave me my first insights into inter-personal skills, facing as I did situations where I had to persuade and counsel some of the more dare devil kids.

I was also privileged in that I had the advantage of learning the value of academic studies from my mother who was a Junior High Science and Tech teacher, while being able to reflect on the challenges of experiential situations through my father who worked as a Petroleum Engineer for Shell Oil. As a High School student, I also played a great deal of football and basketball, which helped me develop skills such as: working in a team, planning and executing competitive strategies aimed at outmaneuvering the opposition; and analyzing lost matches in order to learn from mistakes.

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Looking back on those years, it almost seems as if I always was a student of 'Management of Business and Markets' albeit through observation and imitation. It was this natural interest that led me into the field of Economics (though I chose the branch of Agricultural Economics), at the Texas a&M University, obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree in August 1997 (refer Appendix 1).

Post my college graduation, I joined Dell Computers as Homes Sales Representative in October 1997 and gradually worked my way up the ranks to my present position as 'Large Opportunity Acquisition Sales Manager.' At Dell Computers, I continued on my learning curve and quickly observed, absorbed and applied the principles underlying Marketing & Sales, Customer Satisfaction and Relationship Management, Human Resource Management, Communication, and Cross-functional co-ordination. The continuous learning and diligent application of such principles, I believe, was the key to my being awarded the 'Significant Achiever of the Year Award for 1999,' and the 'Customer Care Super Star Award for Q2 and Q3, FY'99' at Dell Computers (refer Appendix 1).

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