Professional and Personal Goals

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Introduction For the past eleven years I have been working in the web designing and development field, specifically for colleges and universities. Beginning at Peirce College, while pursuing my undergraduate degree in information technology, and working as a work-study student on the college’s website, I was able to acquire experience and web development and design techniques that are used in a higher educational setting. After graduation from Peirce, I was employed as the web manager and eventually assistant director of web communications at Philadelphia University, where I continued to learn techniques specific for universities, such as how to design site that appeal to prospective students, how to manage different faculty, staff, and departments online needs, and how to build successful online promotional campaigns and initiatives. Now at Saint Joseph’s University, I am currently putting a lot of previously gain experience to work, learning more about being at a larger institution, but attainment more knowledge of business, and becoming more rounded, by working in the executive MBA program. With the experience I have from being at three different education institutions, that vary in size, popularity, and process from a web development standpoint, along with the business education I acquire from being in the EMBA program, I want to put them both to use building a web consulting firm that caters to the web development needs of educational institutions. Self-assessment Strengths • Experience with the front-end and back-end of university web systems – at Philadelphia University in the marketing department, I focused on how websites looked, working more with content, graphics, design. Working in the information technolo... ... middle of paper ... ...sities on a full-time basis, as a director of a web development department or in some managerial capacity. Learning & Reflection This process has help me to get an understanding of what I want to do with my career more than just in my head, but down on paper with a time-line that I can follow to make sure that I stay on track and focused on achieving my goals. The most significant benefit I got out writing this plan is the mission statement, I have never really thought about what my mission or purpose is professionally or personally and this process helped my create a mission that I am can confidently follow through my development, and the next ten years of my life. Bibliography Works Cited Brown, P. (2007, December 12). How to Build a Web Design Business. Retrieved March 7, 2010, from webreference.com: http://www.webreference.com/authoring/web_design/

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