The B School Recommendation Summary

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I have seen him learn the basics of audits after he joined IOGPT. He cleared the internal auditor certification for ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 and has successfully carried out several internal audits at various departments. He is also Deputy Technical Manager for the Artificial lift lab and handles all NABL (National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories) compliance audits and activities .He has been involved in various equipment up-gradation activities .Moreover, he has great skills in managing events and has been an integral member of several organizing committees for various meetings and event at IOGPT . In conclusion, I am greatly impressed by his personality and I strongly feel that he has the right credentials and qualifications to become a successful manager and leader.

6. For each attribute listed in the chart below, please select the ranking that best describes how this applicant compares with others you have known during your professional career. Indicate the reference group with whom you are comparing this candidate (e.g., other MBA candidates, other students, other employees) 2000 Characters.

When compared to other officers whom I have worked with in my 33 years of career, I find Prashant to be an exceptionally skilled and competent man who has an unprecedented zeal to take up any challenge he is posed with . I remember him as an innovative individual .who has ventured into many challenging projects and has been successful in even setting higher standards . He has worked on improvised pig lift , Beam gas compressor and presented a novel method for detecting failures in rod pumped wells in IORS 2015 conference. These innovations may take time in getting implemented but promise huge savings for ONGC . Prashant has consistently proved himself to be an excellent team player and has contributed at every step to help the team achieve its best. A live example for this is the way he has adapted himself to a very experienced team of Artificial lift trainers and immensely contributed in overcoming several challenges posed by soaring expectations of the management at various oil and gas fields of ONGC His enthusiasm rubs on to his colleagues and I have seen some tremendous results from every team that Prashant has been a part of.

He has the correct blend of people’s skills. He has dealt with several vendors in negotiating the tender terms and has successfully executed the revamp of the Artificial Lift lab facilities. Apart from his technical expertise, He has been instrumental in floating as well as managing several high value tenders for IOGPT. He is the deputy Technical Manager for Artificial Lift Lab and has played an integral role in getting NABL accreditation for the lab

I feel that by pursing an MBA from UNC, Prashant will not just build on his existing leadership skills but will also develop a global perspective and business acumen which will take him on the road to success. I wish him all the best in his future.

Moreover, he handles pressure situations with a great poise . I have seen him deliver several impromptu project presentations to the top management of the various assets of ONGC .In one of the projects an interim presentation of the project was to be given on a short notice at one of the onshore assets of ONGC. The project had over 300 wells and needed elaborate compilation of facts figures and analysis with a very short span of time . He managed to infer the essence of the comprehensive analysis and organized it as per the expectation assets in a concise form and recently presneted it to the management in one of the assets .The project came up to the expectation of the asset and he was appreciated for successfully dealing with a complex situation with a severe time crunch . .

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- How long have you known the applicant and in what capacity?

I have known Prashant since 2013. I am the In-charge of the Artificial lift team at IOGPT since 2013 and he has reported directly to me for the past 2.5 years He has immensely contributed on several high value projects for ONGC apart from managing various other tasks such as NABL accreditation, ISO audits ,Artificial Lift lab up-gradation and testing etc .Thus I can confidently say that he has constantly delivered excellent quality of work under all circumstances.

- What do you consider the applicants most outstanding talent or ability?

Prashant has an inherent leadership potential and I find this to be his outstanding quality. At ONGC he has constantly displayed signs of leadership. Because of his dependable and result oriented nature, he had become an indispensable member of an Artificial Lift team at IOGPT. Prashant has acted as an in-house consultant to ONGC for several high stakes Artificial lift projects - ranging from enhancement of the Oil and Gas production to troubleshooting critical artificial lift challenge in various fields on ONGC. His performance on several high value projects along with excellent management of various audits and training has earned him A+ grading at ONGC for the past 2 years consecutively .

He has also successfully been a part of a team of trainers for imparting Artificial Lift training to the various field executives and was awarded merit award for excellent contribution and initiatives for imparting artificial lift training to field personnel on 26 January 2014 .

Moreover , he has excellent analytical skills and can quickly make useful inferences from huge amount of data . In one of the projects he has developed a prediction method for finding failure in Rod pumped wells . The method has been a success and was presented at IORS 2015 conference in Mumbai .

I also admire his ability to work under pressure and has successfully met pressing deadlines .In one of the projects there were unavoidable delays in data acquisition due to disruptions in operations at the field .However he leveraged his network and could get the critical data required. It was a herculean task to complete the project in time considering the amount analysis that was required and the pressing deadline . however the project was completed on schedule and was successfully implemented at the field with positive results .

- What do you consider the applicants chief liabilities and weaknesses?

When Prashant joined ONGC, he had a bachelors degree in Mechanical engineering and not much exposure to the Oil and Gas Industry. Moreover he was directly posted in top notch R & D center along with several petroleum engineers , who had a relatively stronger background of the Oil and