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Thanks all...I appreciate this discussion.
You are right in that I had very little math classes (0 believe it or not).
So getting a BS in CS might actually take longer than an MBA would. I would
hope that a prospective employer would recognize my 20 years of IT
experience along with my MBA and that it would be sufficient. I will look
into some other Masters programs though. I do think that the BSCS is
probably not a good idea.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Rouse [mailto:aaron.rouse@...]
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 11:39 AM
To: CF-Jobs-Talk
Subject: Re: The next level...
The school I am going to for this CIS degree had some tracts similar to
those and one for databases. Unfortunately by the time I got to the point
where I could take those classes they did away with the tracts and actually
are talking about changing it from a CIS to an MIS degree. Actually would
prefer the latter since it is simple more recognizable. The masters in
project management that I looked into was not a whole lot of credit hours.
It is designed to be taking after work and I think takes just one year to
finish up. I have heard of some MBA programs with a computer science focus
but never looked into them since not seen an local offering of those. What
I have seen though is anything that has a computer science focus has a lot
of math pre-requisites and typically just not classes people take in
business or in this case religion degrees. I'd think to go that route would
take up a lot of time just to get the pre-requisites out of the way.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Todd Ashworth <cftoddjobs@...>wrote:
> I am extremely fortunate. I am back in school full time for a new degree
> program called Information Design. It's a subset of the school's CS
> degree.
> There are 4 focuses one can choose from, including Web Application
> Development and Interactive Media (design, layout, graphics, etc.). From
> there, I plan on getting an MBA with a Project Management focus. It's
only
> 9 credit hours for the poject management thing at my school, so I believe
> it
> is a good investment of my time. Check with your college to see if they
> have something similar. Like Aaron said, you might be able to get by with
> just that instead of redoing the entire CS degree, though that has its
> benifits as well.
>
> I never got my degree to begin with and am now making up for past
mistakes.
> Were I in your position, I would have serious reservations about spending
> the time to complete a second Bachelor's degree. Most colleges have a
> career advisor or two that will know what degrees are in demand and what
is
> useful for you and what is not. I suggest you talk to one of them.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Phillips" <experiencedcfdeveloper@...>
> To: "CF-Jobs-Talk" <cf-jobs-talk@...>
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:11 AM
> Subject: The next level...
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been developing CF applications for over 10 years now. I've
> > architected applications as well, taking them from concept through
> design,
> > development, and implementation. I am now interested in making theshift
> > into management. I'm not quite sure how to proceed and how to present
> > myself. Several years ago, I did manager my own team of developers, but
> > it
> > was for my own company. I have since sold that company and have worked
> > for
> > other companies since 2005.
> >
> > Although I have 20 years of experience in IT, my Bachelor's degree is a
> BA
> > in Religion and it is recent, from 2003 anyway. I've considered going
> > back
> > and getting a BS in Computer Science/Software Engineering, and thengoing
> > on
> > to get an MBA. I want to position myself to not only be a manager now,
> > but
> > also to be able to move into the director level position and above in
the
> > years to come.
> >
> > My current position is great, however, it may go away next year due to
an
> > impending acquisition of our company. As a result, moving up within my
> > existing organization is probably not going to be an option for me.
> >
> > Any suggestions anyone has on how I should proceed?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Dave
>
>
>
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You are right in that I had very little math classes (0 believe it or not).
So getting a BS in CS might actually take longer than an MBA would. I would
hope that a prospective employer would recognize my 20 years of IT
experience along with my MBA and that it would be sufficient. I will look
into some other Masters programs though. I do think that the BSCS is
probably not a good idea.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Rouse [mailto:aaron.rouse@...]
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 11:39 AM
To: CF-Jobs-Talk
Subject: Re: The next level...
The school I am going to for this CIS degree had some tracts similar to
those and one for databases. Unfortunately by the time I got to the point
where I could take those classes they did away with the tracts and actually
are talking about changing it from a CIS to an MIS degree. Actually would
prefer the latter since it is simple more recognizable. The masters in
project management that I looked into was not a whole lot of credit hours.
It is designed to be taking after work and I think takes just one year to
finish up. I have heard of some MBA programs with a computer science focus
but never looked into them since not seen an local offering of those. What
I have seen though is anything that has a computer science focus has a lot
of math pre-requisites and typically just not classes people take in
business or in this case religion degrees. I'd think to go that route would
take up a lot of time just to get the pre-requisites out of the way.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Todd Ashworth <cftoddjobs@...>wrote:
> I am extremely fortunate. I am back in school full time for a new degree
> program called Information Design. It's a subset of the school's CS
> degree.
> There are 4 focuses one can choose from, including Web Application
> Development and Interactive Media (design, layout, graphics, etc.). From
> there, I plan on getting an MBA with a Project Management focus. It's
only
> 9 credit hours for the poject management thing at my school, so I believe
> it
> is a good investment of my time. Check with your college to see if they
> have something similar. Like Aaron said, you might be able to get by with
> just that instead of redoing the entire CS degree, though that has its
> benifits as well.
>
> I never got my degree to begin with and am now making up for past
mistakes.
> Were I in your position, I would have serious reservations about spending
> the time to complete a second Bachelor's degree. Most colleges have a
> career advisor or two that will know what degrees are in demand and what
is
> useful for you and what is not. I suggest you talk to one of them.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Phillips" <experiencedcfdeveloper@...>
> To: "CF-Jobs-Talk" <cf-jobs-talk@...>
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:11 AM
> Subject: The next level...
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been developing CF applications for over 10 years now. I've
> > architected applications as well, taking them from concept through
> design,
> > development, and implementation. I am now interested in making the
> > into management. I'm not quite sure how to proceed and how to present
> > myself. Several years ago, I did manager my own team of developers, but
> > it
> > was for my own company. I have since sold that company and have worked
> > for
> > other companies since 2005.
> >
> > Although I have 20 years of experience in IT, my Bachelor's degree is a
> BA
> > in Religion and it is recent, from 2003 anyway. I've considered going
> > back
> > and getting a BS in Computer Science/Software Engineering, and then
> > on
> > to get an MBA. I want to position myself to not only be a manager now,
> > but
> > also to be able to move into the director level position and above in
the
> > years to come.
> >
> > My current position is great, however, it may go away next year due to
an
> > impending acquisition of our company. As a result, moving up within my
> > existing organization is probably not going to be an option for me.
> >
> > Any suggestions anyone has on how I should proceed?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Dave
>
>
>
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