How Wharton MBA Program for Executives Helps Achieve Goals

This essay details the author's short-term goal of becoming a Product Line Manager in an analog semiconductor company and a long-term aspiration to lead an Analog Semiconductor Company as CEO. The author believes that the Wharton MBA program will provide the necessary marketing, operational, and communication skills to achieve these objectives. The essay highlights past experiences at Texas Instruments, including roles as a Field Application Engineer, Senior Systems Engineer, and Application Engineering Manager, where the author demonstrated leadership, customer relationship management, and product development skills. The author emphasizes the importance of strategic research, analysis, modern leadership practices, and effective networking learned at Wharton to contribute to career advancement. Furthermore, the essay reflects on personal values such as determination, compassion, and integrity, and how these, combined with professional attributes, will enable the author to contribute to the Wharton community.

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What is your career objective and how will the Wharton MBA Program for Executives
contribute to your attainment of this objective? (750 word limit)
My short-term goal is to rise to a Product Line manager in an analog semiconductor
company like Texas Instruments. In order to achieve this position, I need marketing, operational
and effective communication skills and I am confident that Berkeley's EMBA program will
accelerate my journey towards my destination.
Further, my long-term goal is to lead Analog Semiconductor Company as CEO. My
vision is to position the company as a leading industrial and automotive analog semiconductor
company with differentiated products and high profit from operations. At Haas, learning with the
distinguished peer, diversified team and acclaimed MBA faculty, I plan to hone my strategic
research and analysis skill, learn about best practices of modern leadership and effective
networking that would contribute immensely towards achieving my career goals.
I started my career as Field Application Engineer in Texas Instruments India sales and
marketing team supporting customers in Northern India. I dealt with customers directly,
understood the requirement, created a design using TI devices, solved technical issues and in
some cases negotiated the price. Impressed by my leadership, customer relationship and
organizational skills, product line manager of TI's biggest power group offered me to join his
team in the USA. Here, I was offered the position of a Senior Systems Engineer of the Power
Design Services.
Based in Santa Clara, I worked in collaboration of the company's marketing team in order
to conceptualize the conference referred to as the Industrial and Automotive Power Summit,
meant to happen in the in Santa Clara from the month of October 2016. The purpose of the

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summit was to offer training for TI's sales teams based in identified markets across the United
States, Europe and the Asian Continent. In addition to the skills attained in development of
training programs, I personally mentored two interns at TI, whom through the mentorship
showed significant improvements not only in their skill but also establishing sufficient work
relations through networking. In collaboration with the online tool team, I managed to
successfully develop and release an innovative EMI tool for our power devices, the first in the
industry that resulted to more than 8 thousand clicks on the product folder if TI on the online
platform. At this point, I had mastered my art of leadership, a factor which contributed to my
nomination to lead a typology initiative that led to multi-million dollar opportunities in the
segment of Industrial power.
With an exemplary performance as a Senior Systems Engineer, the management of TI
offered me a new position as an Application lead of the Automotive DC/DC Buck Converter
(PRS), where I managed a team of application engineers in the multi-million dollar product line.
With my leadership, the team was able to develop innovative initiatives for the PL's Automotive
ADAS, Infotainment systems, and BCMs, which led to a generation of revenues of more than 15
million dollars. In addition to conceptualizing product developments which became major
breakthroughs, I also took the opportunity of mentoring three more rotators and interns as a way
of sharing my skills and knowledge to new professionals in the industry. I had a feeling of
honour when the three were recognized to have made significant contributions in a number of
innovative initiatives of TI.
As an Application Engineering Manager, I continued to expand my horizon and
specialized in the new product development cycle. I also led an expanded team of application
professionals of senior ranks in order to create product definitions, validations, release, and

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making the initial engagements with customers and for support services in the various markets of
TI. From these, I believe I have industry hardened skills and my Hass's experience will provide
the required boost needed to meet both my short as well as long-term goals. In addition to this, I
believe that the Hass program will boost my giving attributes in order to be a successful leader
while playing the roles of both my long-term and short-term goals.
Having grown up in a family facing a magnitude of challenges, to having a successful
career at an international company like TI, I believe that the experiences of this journey have
shaped my personal values of determination, grit, and appreciation of the varying cultures of the
world, compassion as well as honesty and integrity. I believe that alongside my skills and
professional attributes of leadership, teamwork, challenging status quo, a global experience,
crisis management, and delivering on required tasks even with limited resources, will enable me
to promote and reinforce the values held by the community of Berkeley Haas during the program
and long after its completion.