EDUCATION
Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
Charlottesville, VA
University of Virginia
Candidate for Masters of Business Administration, May 2002
- William Michael Shermet Award recipient
- Darden MasterCard International Merit Scholarship
recipient
- GMAT: 760
- Elected VP Technology for Values Based Leadership Club,
Operations Committee
Chairperson for Christmas in April, and Co-Chair for Darden
Tutoring Committee
- Active member of Consulting Club, Darden Outreach, and
Omicron Delta Kappa
University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA
Bachelor of Science with Distinction, Electrical Engineering,
May 1997
- Intermediate Honors recipient and six-time Dean’s List
recipient
- Elected Treasurer, Kappa Alpha Order Fraternity
EXPERIENCE
Summer, 2001 Bain & Company, Inc. Atlanta, GA
Summer Associate
- Determined the full potential revenue drivers of a
financial auditing client.
- Implemented the drivers into a full potential revenue
framework and model for the client to
help realize latent revenue potential from their existing
customers.
- Identified over 25% of revenue growth potential for the
client through full potential analysis.
1997-2000 Compaq Computer Corporation Houston, TX
- Compaq Significant Achievement Award, May, 1999
- Compaq Outstanding Achievement Award, March, 2000
1999-2000 Systems Engineer, BIOS Development, Commercial
Desktop Division
- Designed and developed the Basic Input/Output Software
(BIOS) for all Compaq Commercial
desktop personal computers.
- Managed Commercial Desktop Sustaining BIOS releases,
which included the worldwide
maintenance of customer BIOS issues, test plans, and
releases.
- Discovered a major hardware flaw in the computer chip of
Compaq’s major supplier.
Innovated a solution for the flaw, giving Compaq a
competitive advantage and allowing them
to beat their nearest competitor to market by over two
weeks.
- Optimized the execution time for the Compaq Commercial
desktop power-up by over 30%,
allowing Compaq a $10MM cost savings in third-party vendor
negotiations.
1997-1999 Systems Engineer, Engineering Problem Resolution,
Commercial Desktop Division
- Facilitated expedient resolution of major technical
field issues with corporate accounts.
- Managed major account customer relations via direct
communications with customers on
outstanding Compaq and third-party issues.
- Resolved 100% of Commercial Desktop sales bid critical
issues during 1998, directly
resulting in sales bid “wins” of over $5MM in revenue.
- Led a team to develop a website linking product
engineering information with field sales
forces to promptly communicate product issues and their
solutions to the field.
PERSONAL
- Interests include hiking, running, golf, tennis, and
cooking.
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