Student Profile
James Taylor, 1998
After five years of study as a Systems Analysis/BATSC double major, I finally ran out of student financial aid in May of 1998. Leaving Oxford, I took a position as a consultant with Deloitte Consulting in Cincinnati, Ohio. At Deloitte I worked with a variety of clients in many sectors, including knowledge management, healthcare, and financials. Two years later I left Deloitte to join an Internet startup called Synchrony Communications as a software engineer.
In February 2000, I moved to Palo Alto, CA just in time to get a front row seat to watch the Internet bubble burst. I have now returned to school and I am pursuing a Master’s of Engineering at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Wherever I have worked I have always found that the communication and organizational skills that I learned in the BATSC program were invaluable. Whether I’m interviewing a client to investigate how their processes work, writing a technology review for my manager’s recommendation, or delivering a presentation to an executive committee, my BATSC skills help me to project a message that is cogent and clear. And yes, those BATSC skills help with master’s theses too! In summary, the BATSC program was the perfect complement to my studies. The tools I developed in audience analysis, technical documentation, proposal writing, and project management have helped me tremendously.