Saturday, May 2, 2009

Starting my final path towards graduation; a technical journey. CIS 405 & 433 April 2009

I will have to say that I am finally glad to be in the home stretch of my Degree. I must say for the past 11 years things have seemed to be a struggle to finish my degree, but I am really glad to have finally found a home at Bellevue. I must say I have had a technical background it seems all of my life and I try to keep up with my technical lifestyle as well as learn new things. I have my A+ and NET+ certifications thanks to the University and the financial support of the US Army and I am involved on troubleshooting the integrated systems of the AH-64D Apache Longbow on a daily basis so anything technical is like candy to me.


E-Commerce should be familiar to all of us. Just by logging into the Blackboard or ordering books fromt he bookstore; we are involved in E-Commerce. Just by ordering anything online we are already fundamentally knowledgeable of how the system basically works. I feel that given the course descriptions everything should be good to go except for diagnosing how current trends in technology affect the E-Commerce implementations. In fact in the case of the Global War on Terror internet secutiry it seems has been beefed up all over the world and with things changing on a daily basis I feel that it would be impossible to follow all of the current developements and then determine how they will affect society.


These final cohort courses do fit well into my career plans and dreams. What I learn in all of these CITB classes will determine how much experience I have at the end of my journey to be able to approve what it takes to lead an IT team. I do feel very well about what I currently know, but I am always open to learning new things.


As far as project management goes I am very verst in the subject as I have seen a lot of projects come, change and go in the Army. Especially for Information Assurance as the worlds Internet Security continues to change. Annualy all personnel are required to take mandatory courses explaining how everyone must keep information secure and how to avoid "leaks". But with all of these technically advance projects going on how does one learn how to protect a laptop kept in a car with DoD personaly information on it from getting stolen. I feel that the real lesson to be learned from projects is it is not always wise to waste millions of dollars on how to protect Department of Defense information when you can't teach the employees or soldiers common sense.

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