1. Discuss your three most significant professional accomplishments.

Why do you view

them as such?

I have achieved meaningful and worthy results during last 3 years working for AAAAA.

AAAAA is a Xxx-based engineering consulting company in the power supply industry which

started up in June, 2012. I would like to share how my contributions have allowed the company

to survive in a fiercely competitive market and even grow up to ten times larger than our original

firm.

One of my greatest professional achievements is my revolutionary optimization of

electrical procedures to raise the overall productivity and quality by developing innovative

automation software tools. After losing clients due to faulty device settings, I developed a new

software that could plot data in a power line in order to solve mis-operation issues in electrical

substations in a way that had never been done before. The experience quickly taught me that as

little as one mistake could cause severe and dangerous problems, so even being 99% error-free

was not enough. However, it is extremely hard to perfectly avoid human-error while calculating

and simulating information from thousands of data sources. In striving to reach a 100% perfect

system free of error I conceived the concept of creating an automation software that sought out

errors, realizing this would substantially reduce the energy losses caused by incorrect

calculations while saving time to increase efficiency. My first software, “The Fault Impedance

Trajectory,” made one part of a protective relay device check itself if it coordinates or crashes

with other setting. It successfully diagnosed any errors and has successfully prevented any other

mis-operations since.
 After the success of my first software product, I had the opportunity to lead and manage a

software development team in order to pursue an even more impactful result. This unprecedented

pooling of engineering knowledge and experience would enable us to satisfy a client and lead to

future projects. The greatest of these projects was our Relay Setting Software, a product of over

6 months of effort. This innovative automated setting engine for protection devices allows for

rapid processing with zero possibility of human error. This software cut down the average relay

setting processing time from three weeks to no more than three days.

Lastly, I established a collective education model for employee's by reorganizing the

work scope per project to the benefit of human relations within AAAAA. One of main issues in

any start-up engineering firm is the difficulty to secure experienced professional engineers.

Including myself, our company has only two licensed professional engineers leading a team of

less experienced, unlicensed engineers. I suggested teaming-up each licensed engineer with an

unexperienced engineer for every step of project. It may seem that the inexperienced engineer

would slow down the licensed engineer when teamed up together. However, in the long-run this

would allow each person to learn from everyone else and increase the overall average knowledge

level while helping each engineer learn more in fields they are inexperienced with. As they say, a

rising tide raises all boats. AAAAA will then save more money and effort to secure a highly

knowledgable and experienced team than if it were to simply hire expensive, experienced

engineers.

Overall, my years at AAAAA has enabled me to both learn from and teach those around

me, advancing the entire company through my own experiences.

prevented you from becoming more successful?

I believe one of my greatest characteristics that has brought me professional success is

my belief in building credibility based on responsibility. It is the core focus of my life to place

the most emphasis on building trust with colleagues and clients in whatever organizations I

interact with. In order to gain trust from others, I strive to be wholly trustworthy in abiding to my

promise, even if some may find it trivial.

I was an officer in the Korean Army, an experience which gave me an innate sense of

responsibility. In 2009, I was serving as a company commander over 15 troops. At the same

time, my battalion commander wanted me to serve as a training officer, planning schedules for

the training of the entire battalion, due to his belief that I was a trustworthy person on whom he

could rely. I successfully completed both of these missions by breaking down my hours into 30

minutes sessions and utilizing my troops as assistants. In addition, I worked in a Singapore hotel

project in 2010 where I experienced managing and coordinating the electrical construction over a

span of 3 months even though I was not in a management position. This was due to the electrical

manager appointing me to manage the clean-up electrical construction for the hotel lobby rather

than outsource the position. My credibility and responsibility became tools that I could utilize to

execute the tasks given to me to complete.

My dedication to credibility and responsibility have substantially aided me in

contributing to serve both my team and my leaders. However, there are times when I fail to

recognize the same traits in others, to the inhibition of the success of my team. Recently, I have

discovered with apprehension my dangerous tendency to see a man and judge his own credibility
based on only a few mistakes or erroneous results received from him. This leads to a hesitation in

work with him, causing me to either work alone or with a select few whom I trust. Then, upon

being proven wrong in the other person’s performance, I have found it necessary to look past my

predispositions to see more of who a person is, and not who I expect them to be. I strive to seek

out the best way to use others well in a team and how to be a generous leader able to ensure the

optimal performance of everyone, a skill I hope to receive in a business school setting.

Furthermore, my conviction for consistently pursuing self-improvement has always

driven my life to achieving a better environment and to pursue ever-more meaningful goals. I

actively engage in learning what I need in order to become a greater person, sometimes to the

point of being too hard on myself in an attempt at training. I have always striven to seek out new

goals and to achieve them. For example, I left a high salary position at my previous job in

BBBBB to pursue graduate school in the US because I wanted to be qualified as a global

professional engineer. These pursuits extend even to my personal health, as I have continually

dedicated time to exercising and working out in the ten years since I left the Army.

As mentioned in the paragraphs above, I have moved toward numerous successes due to

my dedication to self-improvement. At this point in my life, I am pursuing MBA school in order

to accomplish even more goals and master new skills. I believe in the idea that today is better

than yesterday and tomorrow can be better than today. I hope SSS is the school that will help me

move toward a better tomorrow.

environment where our dynamic and driven students take an active role in the XXXXX

MBA community. Please discuss why the XXXXX MBA is the ideal program for you, what

you hope to achieve, and how you will contribute to your classmates' experience. (500

words)

I believe the part-time MBA program in the OOO school is the best choice for me to train

myself and make a leap to a manager level in my current occupation. As an electrical engineer, I

have achieved meaningful results during my 3 years working for AAAAA, a XXXXX-based

engineering consulting company in the power supply industry. My contributions have allowed

the company to survive in a fiercely competitive market and even grow up to ten times larger

than our original firm. As we’ve grown, I have considered how to successfully manage various

projects with a team of junior level engineers who have less experience. I have also felt the

pressing necessity of attaining a great ability for management and leading a team.

One of the biggest reasons I feel the OOO MBA program is perfectly fitted for me is that

our business is based in XXXXX, the state with the largest group of power supply engineering

companies who serve as our potential clients or cooperative partners. Even with that being the

case however, we are continually pursuing expansion beyond XXXXX and I am convinced OOO

is equipped to offer me the great opportunity to meet countless people from diverse backgrounds

in the energy market. Additionally, at OOO, I hope to learn not only the general knowledge of

management such as finance, human resources, organization and marketing but also more

professional strategies for start-up companies as I ultimately want to start my own business one

day.
 I am convinced I can share the cumulative practical knowledge of the energy business

with my future classmates in OOO built up from years of experience in the engineering field of

the power supply industry. Energy production has long been a key issue in countries all around

the world and there is a high demand for entrepreneurs to get into it. My concrete experience has

been built on my work on multiple projects including hotel construction, oil fields, windfarms,

transmission substations, and power plants in different countries such as the US, Korea and

Singapore. I have served as a field engineer, a power system engineer, and a manager. I am

confident that my diverse experiences will be a valuable help for any students interested in

energy production. In addition, I can contribute to future business partners in OOO through

sharing my experiences in leading a start-up firm for those interested in founding their own

business. My salient role as a professional engineer in the company has allowed me to watch

closely and help shape the firm into the successful company that it is today.