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With a degree in computer science or similar fields, students can go on to enjoy a rewarding, lucrative cybersecurity career. This industry is expected to grow in the upcoming years, so jobs will always be available for talented students. From a forensics expert to a security director, there are many exciting opportunities in the

Since graduating high school, I have taken advantage of several opportunities to obtain formal education. Most notably, I have completed two associates’ degrees, one from Central Texas College with a major in applied technology, the other from Cochise College with a major in Intelligence Operations. Additionally, I have completed one vocational studies program from Seminole Community College in automotive service technology. Currently, I am working toward a bachelor’s degree with Utica College in Cyber Security.

The primary performance measures are related to student achievement based on standardized tests. Still, as with any organization today, cyberspace support plays an important part in reaching the strategic goals which include organization excellence and outreach. The IT division supports the DoDEA goals by “delivering reliable, secure, high-performing and cost-effective networks and services to our students, teachers and staff.” (CSP, 2013) The IT division is comprised of five branches: CIO-Enterprise Architecture, System Development, HQ Operations & Customer Support, Information Resources, and Information Assurance.

There were times in elementary school when teachers had to pick me up from my chair to give another student a chance to use the school computer. When I first laid eyes on a computer I was amazed at all the things that it could accomplish but I never really delved the aspects of it. This changed when I took my AP Computer Science course during my junior year, taking the class helped develop my passion for the computer. Taking this course helped me to explore other areas of the computer that I didn’t know existed, because I wanted to learn more about the world of computers I decided to join the cyber security team and the robotics team at my school. By joining the cybersecurity team I was able to augment my knowledge on computers in general,

Possess significant and extensive experience in leading a full spectrum CIO office to include such disciplines as: information security, systems administration, developing internal and external web pages, software development, network services, storage services and IT work support for investigations and audits. This experienced is evidenced via assignment with the Army Materiel Command (2001 to 2010) (AMC) as Director of Enterprise Operations, Strategic Planning and Chief Technical Advisor and more recent in the position as the Chief Information Security Officer. My assignments at the US Patent and Trademark Office (2012 to 2015) allowed an even greater leadership experience in providing IT services. These services including computer

I am excited to apply for the Information Assurance Engineer position within Lockheed Martin’s Mission Systems and Training division which I found on Lockheed Martin’s Brassring portal. I feel that my proficiency in information security concepts, along with my skills in network penetration testing make me a strong candidate for this position. Over the summer of 2015, I interned with Lockheed martin where I had the opportunity to study intelligence driven defense concepts through Lockheed Martin’s “EXCITE - An Intro to Intelligence Driven Defense” program. Here, I studied core cyber security concepts such as defensible architectures and incident response and forensics. Additionally, I prepared for the Certified Ethical Hacker exam where I studied

After completing his associate’s degree, he started working on his bachelor’s degree at Syracuse University. When he relocated to North Carolina, Edward put his degree on hold and started to focus on his career at Nortel Networks. In the spring of 2015, Edward started working on his bachelor’s degree at William Peace University. He decided to pursue a degree in Liberal Studies with a concentration in Information Technology. Edward has a passion for learning and technology, the Liberal Studies degree gave him the opportunity to take classes in many

On the other hand, sitting in my courses left a feeling of unwelcoming atmosphere and isolation. Almost the same exact feeling as I catch when walking into interviews. I currently do not work in my field. To have majored in such a dominating male industries, I had to work harder than others and develop valuable connections. Computer Science/Technology continues to be a white collar industry dominated by males for numerous centuries. This industry is gender bias and discriminates against women. As a result, there are not many women in the computing profession.

Through my high school career, my gender and the stereotyped expectations associated with being female affected my academic career. The classes I took and teachers that taught them were affected by gender. Our science and math departments were heavily male dominated, while the teachers in our English and fine arts departments were mostly women. There were also trends in the gender of the students who registered for different classes. When I took macroeconomics my junior year, I was one of four girls in our thirty student class.

Gendered Overshadowing, The Female Student’s Institutionalized Battle for Skill Thriving in an Assertive Male Driven Educational Environment

Experienced professional with a developed focus on Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC). Successfully served in multiple roles of escalating responsibility and expertise during a 20+ year career working directly with Information Security Systems Technologies. For example; administration, support, engineering, architecture, analyst, and management teams. A hybrid acumen and heightened ability to identify, analyze, understand, communicate, and execute, while balancing technical complexities with business requirements. Strives to infuse added-value and is extremely accomplished in achieving both short-term objectives & long-term company goals through relationship building and strategic planning. A critical thinking, hands-on, Technologist with detailed knowledge of related business intricacies.

“… The protection of computing systems and the data that they store or access (University).” To them computer security is important because “Enabling people to carry out their jobs, education, and research, Supporting critical business process, Protecting personal and sensitive information.” (University)

Organizations are increasingly relying on information systems to provide support in decision making in operational activities, management functions and for increased effectiveness in its various business areas. As a twenty first century professional, the ability to understand business on a global scale will be highly prized and hence it fascinates and motivates me to learn more and more about it. Now, having worked for about two year, I feel that I am maturing as a professional & should pursue a graduate program to cement my capabilities. As an Information Science graduate, I developed excellent analytical and technical skills and improved my problem-solving abilities, but I never had the opportunity to develop the technical and management interdisciplinary skills necessary to design, create, and maintain computer-based business processing applications or study the emerging needs of corporations in the areas of information technology management or complex project management. To realize my career goal of learning complex information management methods, I clearly must enhance my abilities in these as well as other areas of

A point Ullman makes is that women in the computer science industry must prove themselves further than their credentials. Ellen Ullman says “But no matter how strong the social structure, there is always that cheek-slapped moment when you are alone with the anti-women prejudice: the joke, the leer, the disregard, the invisibility the inescapable fact that the moment you walk through the door you are seen as lesser, no matter your credentials (Ullman, 2013),” meaning that, even though the woman is more than qualified, she must still prove herself even when nobody is watching.

My interest in computer security, specifically the areas of programming languages, security network architectures, the development of new approaches to securing large scale enterprise applications and databases begin in my initial computer science courses. I discovered I have a natural affinity for solving complex computational, programming and system integration problems exceptionally fast. I also learned that I have the ability to define a series of coding requirements and complete them with a specific goal of