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IT Pro Needs Advice on Next Career Move
LockedGreetings! I am in the process of evaluating where I am with my career, and making some plans for next moves. I am looking to some of the experienced IT professionals in the community for some suggestions on what areas I could most easily transition to given my background. My background consists of the following:
-3 years of Systems Administration in a Windows and UNIX environment
-4 years as a Web Applications Programmer (J2EE, .NET, Oracle, MS SQL)
-2 Years as a Systems Analyst supporting various analytical systems
-2 Years as a Project Manager implementing various IT projects including software development and IT infrastructure implementationEducational Background includes:
-Bachelor of Information Technology
-Masters degree in BusinessI don’t really enjoy the Project Management work as much as I thought I might. In fact, I really don’t enjoy the “business” side of IT at all! I am really looking to move back over to the technical side, although I am not really sure in what capacity, and how to go about making the transition. Given that I also have a bit background with fraud detection and analytics, I would like to move back over to that area and perhaps do something either in security or computer forensics. So my questions are as follows:
-Given that most of my recent experience has been as a PM, how should I go about transitioning back over to the technical side?
-Do you have any other suggestions for what areas I could move to given my background? What training would be needed given your suggested ideas?Thanks in advance for your suggestions.