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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Jobs-Talk" <cf-jobs-talk@houseoffusion.com> 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 shift > 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 going > 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Jobs-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:3972 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Jobs-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.11
