Obtaining a Degree in Information Management

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-What does information management mean to you and how would getting a Master’s degree in information management fit in with your future plans?
After I finished my bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from University of Mumbai, I joined Vistaar, which is a Pricing Solutions Company that has a strong Analytics tool and a Transaction Engine as its core products, as a Software Engineer. While working on client projects, I learned that companies are willing to pay big money to replace their existing Pricing Systems with what Vistaar offers just because we can capture and portray important pieces of information in meaningful ways. This has ensnared my curiosity and upon delving deeper into the actual client scenarios, I realized that these companies either do not have proper tools or mechanisms to capture information, or have no idea as to do what with it. Over the course of my undergraduate studies, I always strived to come up with a version of the program myself before checking pre-defined solutions and it helped me think out of the box. As a result, I was entrusted with over 7 different projects at Vistaar, which enhanced my thinking and problem solving skills even further. Learning new things and solving real life problems has always been my forte and there is a deeper pool of problems to be solved in the field of Information Management. Hence, working as an Information Architect who can solve data problems and gain more value out of it by leveraging technical and business knowledge has become my career goal. I now see MSIM program at University of Washington as a critical step towards achieving my goals.

-Why and how did you choose the MSIM program at the University of Washington Information School and how do you see the prog...

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...only coordinated well with him by working late hours to facilitate proper communication, but also developed the artifacts in question with utmost quality and diligence that satisfied the client’s requirements. The product development team of Vistaar gets their requirements from our Senior Vice President, who works from US office. I also worked in this team for a long time, which meant that I had to have WebEx sessions with him during night times in India to get the requirements, demo the products, give status updates, seek comments etc. Apart from working with people in different Time Zones, I worked with people of different understandings, backgrounds and abilities in teams. I adapted well in all these teams and paced my work as per the abilities of its members. This way, I learned about team work and team dynamics, which I am sure, will be of great use at iSchool.

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