Program:
Master of Science Program in Information Technology and Management
Student Name:
Karthik Kandakumar
Graduating Class:
Class of 2019
Undergraduate Alma Mater:
About Karthik:
I grew up in Chennai, India and enjoyed the luxury of going to the beach anytime I wanted. You could always find me relaxing on the beach in my down time. As an adult, I take pride in calling myself an IT Professional who has helped organizations like WorldBank, IBM, and Ericsson with their Information Management and hence driving them towards better decision making. I enjoy working on projects and fixing bugs.
Proudest Accomplishment:
Most recently, the acceptance to McCombs is one of my proudest accomplishments. But something else that I am very proud of is the relationships I developed at my previous job. It’s important to me to create good relationships with people I work with and the day I left my last job, I realized how sad everyone was that I was leaving. Despite the sadness of the departure, it made me feel accomplished that I had successfully created so many strong relationships. One other important accomplishment in my life was taking control of my health and changing my lifestyle to support a significant weight loss!
Why did you choose the MSITM Program?
In my 7 years of experience as a Business Intelligence specialist, I was fortunate to witness the evolution of data and its importance for driving business decisions. With the golden period for single subject matter experts nearing its end, and with the increase in advancements to process any data to obtain a meaningful information, we can clearly notice IT industry shifting towards data driven projects. Hence I was looking for a program that might train me in cutting edge technologies as well as with advanced machine learning techniques. The MSITM program at McCombs had a curriculum looked like the perfect fit of all courses available.
What are you looking forward to most this year?
Learning… and more learning. With a program that sounded so good on paper, I was interested to see if it could live up to the expectations. But it has exceeded my expectations and opened us to a whole new world of latest technologies and machine learning techniques.
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