White male engineer, 26 years old. Grew up in a rural area in an intermountain west state. Went to the flagship state school (University of Montana/Wyoming/Idaho) as a double major, one in electrical engineering and another in mathematics. 3.77 cumulative GPA. Graduated from the honors program. Also have a MS in Electrical Engineering at a big name top public university in the south, attended part time while working, GPA 3.73. 5 years as an engineer at a big defense company (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon). Secret clearance project, it is interesting but the work is not glamorous. Interned as a product engineer at a top US semiconductor company. No hard leadership experience but have taken initiative to be involved and work on projects outside of my normal scope of work. Helped standup my departments early career panel/committee and led the onboarding committee to welcome new employees. 1 promotion, increasing responsibilities including leading some projects but not in a managerial or project manager capacity. EC in undergrad - 4 semesters as a lab instructor/teaching assistant for sophomore level EE course, three years in the departments ambassador group including one year as president. Represented the university at two different conferences. Lots of volunteer activities including as a leader. As a senior received a fellowship to lead a team of freshman/sophomores through a design project. Won “outstanding technical presentation” award as part of my senior design project. Since graduating from my undergrad, have a lot of volunteer experience but not a lot of focus in one area. Have organized volunteer events through my work. I have been recognized as an emerging leader by my regions United Way organization. I do mentoring through my alma mater’s mentor network. I have volunteered for a local political campaign (state attorney) through primaries and general election in 2020 and will do so again in 2022. Post MBA want to be in consulting, hopefully using my prior experience including clearance and extracurriculars to transition to government or infrastructure (transportation, telecom, non profit) industries.

Plan on taking the GRE in 5 weeks but the list above will be my round 1 list regardless of that outcome.