Week Three, Journal Entry

 

• what are your personal professional IT strengths (technical and soft skills)?
• My personal strengths are using google to help me find clear answers, and networking.  I'm pretty okay at networking, however I haven't been able to practice it as much as I would like to.  Security is also very fun for me.  
• what are your professional IT goals? Be CLEAR (Links to an external site.), and include at least 1 immediate goal (0-1 year) and 2 long term goals (5-10 years out).
• My professional IT goals.
• 1 Immediate goal: Graduate and start my masters program in Emergency Management with a focus in Cybersecurity and Policy. 
• 2 Long term goals.
• Find an IT job with a bit tech company or on a federal level and start working on actual workplace skills
• Work for FEMA or some other federal agency on improving the nation's cybersecurity infrastructure. 
• How well do your strengths and goals align?
• They align okay.  Networking and cybersecurity have a lot in common.