STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

Learning is like rowing upstream, not to advance is to float backwards.

Having learnt from the past, I live in the present with an eye on the future. My foremost
dream in life is to be acknowledged and congratulated for my academic achievements. This
desire is the main motivation in me, wanting to pursue my Masters at your esteemed
University. With due respect to these thoughts in my mind, I have developed a great belief in
consistent hard work which made it possible to have successful experiences from my schooling
to undergraduate college.
These establishments of perfect positivity gave me the confidence of associating myself
to the field of Engineering, because a dream is not just a mere thought, its an individuals
purpose, and an engineer is one who has the tendency to manufacture and realize these
dreams.
The first few days of engineering made me realize that my progressive approach
towards my aim has brought me closer to the much awaited exposure that I always wanted to
experience. During my freshmen year, I stepped into the world of programming, which included
languages like C and C++, and these languages inculcated the perspective of being an efficient
coder. In addition to the above languages, the language that embarked a new sense of
inclination in my programming journey was JAVA. The conceptual details and practical
outsourcing of this object oriented language gave a new basement in my construction of
programs.
To keep up with the on-going technologies, I have presented a paper on Virtual Reality
and panoramic view for which I was awarded the 1st prize at B. V. Raju Institute of Technology.
Apart from this, Ive also given presentation on Bluetooth Security, in various reputed
institutions. To my credit I have won two silver medals for my academics during the course of
my under graduation.
In addition to the pursuit in academic field, I always believe that a students
participation in non-academic bustles makes him stronger in his professional front. Therefore,
as a part of an NGO group organized by our college, I got an opportunity to explore the diversity
and dissimilarity amongst various genres in our society. Moreover, I was also given the
opportunity to be a part of blood donation camp organized by Indian Red Cross Society. This
learning experience befriended me with a notion that any kind of change is acceptable, only if it
has the tendency to change the perception of a person.
Its the passion and ardor for a techno-functional career that has motivated me to grasp
the opportunity of working at Accenture Pvt Ltd, as Assistant Software Engineer. I worked as
part of the QA team in the British Telecom project. This being my first job in testing field
provided me a platform to embrace both technical as well as functional business knowledge.
My area of work revolves around the functional testing and the management application. I have
closely worked with the clients and the team members to understand and meet their
requirements with my skills in analyzing the requirements and providing right test cases on
which meets all requirements of the client. I have detected few defects at the time of analysis
which were very crucial and I was appreciated for work and my keen observations of the
requirements at the initial stage of analysis phase, which bought me a great visibility in the
team. And at the time of testing execution phase I have found many issues with the developed
application and I have provided the exact fault details to the development team so that it can
be fixed easily in very less time. The direct interaction with different teams in the project had
helped me gaining good knowledge in the field of development as well as in analysis part and
this exposure helped me in gaining profound knowledge about the requirements of the project.
The qualities I gained from my first job are not limited to perfection and persistence.
With a wide variety of interests that are depicted throughout my academic career, I
selected the area of interaction with business being on the technology stream as a pathway for
my career and hence chose Management in Information Systems as the ideal course for my
graduation. This is a result of my zeal in driving my career into managerial roles of business
wings without losing my technical expertise. I have witnessed firsthand that business and
technology are inextricably interwoven and that it is not possible to imagine one without the
other. This scenario has provided me some of the greatest challenges at the workplace in order
to understand the business requirements and elucidate business teams about the feasibility of
utilizing the technology to make the business smoother and more efficient.
The top notch curriculum for MS - MIS and the erudite faculty at your university has
been conducive to my interest in your programme. To be more specific, the balance in weight
age given to management and technical courses is one factor which is being offered by very few
universities, has served as a catalyst to apply for your esteemed university. Texas A&M
University - College Station is known for its brand and uniqueness in every aspect among the
universities of US and this has driven me to apply for it. Hence I would like to take this
opportunity to present my skills and personal interest in MIS course at your university and
would be greatly elated if Im admitted into this course with suitable financial assistance. I
would also like to thank you for your time in considering my application.