Pursuing A Master 's Project Management

I am a highly professional, motivated, and experienced Chartered Mechanical/Systems Engineer (CPEng) and a qualified Project Manager (PM) from UNSW Canberra (ADFA) working with Naval Technical Bureau (NTB) from 2008 to current for Australian Department of Defence (DoD).

However, obtaining the knowledge required to successfully orchestrate and manage projects is a challenge within itself. Individuals with the drive and desire to become project managers have a number of options regarding the means of properly equipping oneself for real world project management situations. In addition to seeking an academic degree in project management, and before becoming a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with the Project Management Institute (PMI), learners are encouraged to participate in Project Integration Management Simulations through the PMI Registered Education Provider (REP) and world-class education simulation company, Double Masters (Double Masters, 2016).

This course is designed to equip students with the knowledge, understanding and skills required for success in current and future employment or for progression to an undergraduate degree. It aims to provide an educational foundation for a range of administrative and management careers in business, specialised studies directly relevant to individual vocations and professions in which students are working or intend to seek employment and enable students to make an immediate contribution in employment.

Graduate school is my next step to improve upon what I have learned in undergraduate school and in industry. Currently, I work at Space Systems Loral (SSL) as a lead designer for the payload structure on a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) earth environmental monitoring satellite. For the past six months as a Lead Designer, I have been working to bring a non-heritage complex composite panel assembly from concept to fabrication by managing assistant designers, communicating directly with NASA, participating in design reviews, writing test protocols, and solving difficult structural design problems. My role on this project began as a junior designer helping out part-time, but as the scope of the project grew and manpower was lost, I agreed to take the big leap to head the project. I have been working at Space Systems Loral for the last year and a half. While I like this work, I want to pursue a masters degree so I can tackle more challenging technical solutions that require advanced mathematics and engineering

Project management is the discipline of using policies and procedures to manage a project from creation to competition. The intent of this paper is to assess the role of a project manager and determine if I am well suited for a career in project management. To achieve this goal, I will be discussing the following areas: job description, general career path, education requirements, salary, career outlook, and the pros and cons. I will also be interviewing a colleague that currently working as a project manager to gain a better understanding of typical duties associated with the role.

My desire to earn an MBA degree grew from my job as project manager with Hospital Corporation of America. In this position, I worked on implementation and optimization projects and managed teams instrumental in creating policies and budgets for hospitals within the company. After my first implementation project, I became passionate about the huge role I played in advancing healthcare practices in the company. My job afforded me opportunities to set up my own project, create the milestones and scope principles, and manage my own team. My experience with managing daily activities on such large projects, while working with executive and senior leadership teams equipped me with an array of knowledge and experience on how to manage healthcare projects.

My career pursuits in the building construction industry began at Denver Public Schools Construction Services during the summer that followed high school graduation. During this internship, I became exposed to project management and the various trades within the construction industry. More specifically, I was tasked with assisting project managers

Business changes rapidly. Organisational models and processes are continuously being updated and revised. Getting an advanced business degree provides access to the newest information. Companies recognise the importance of staying current and even ahead of the changes. As such, they are more willing to invest in individuals who have access to the current knowledge and can possibly train others on the information.

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

At the Introduction to PD workshop I identified two broad reasons why I decided to pursue my MBA. The first was to develop my competence as a manager. The second and more important reason was to advance my career by making myself more marketable. The job market today is undoubtedly very competitive and I realised that a first degree was not sufficient if I wanted to 'climb the corporate ladder'. It is hoped that this MBA would help me to take advantage of any future opportunities when they become available. My personal development journey thus far has quite

My employer, Gulfstream Aerospace, offers project management training over six courses which I easily swept through two years ago. Their third-party courseware taught by certified instructors supposedly prepares you to take the PMP Certification. After reviewing the PMBOK Guide and subsequent test requirements, I felt an academic approach would be better in the long run for me by learning not just "how?", but "why?" various project management practices are followed at work but not others. I have experience creating work breakdown structures (WBS) for my projects (separate from routine, ongoing work), yet there was no connection or insight into the cost accounting delivered by the work packages. Likewise, while I create Gantt charts (typically for six month projects), no one ever trained me to produce a risk assessment that factored the probability of possible contigency situations or how to determine a math-based response when the need arises to reduce schedule duration.

I have successfully earned a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from SUNY, University at Buffalo in September 2013, which opened avenues for me and led me to my first full-time job. Since graduation, I’ve been on a ceaseless path of learning from working as a Quality Engineer for a small manufacturing company called HDM Hydraulics to where I am now as an R&D Quality Engineer for New Product Development at Medtronic. My academic pursuits continued even after starting

I didn’t understand why any individual would want to become a certified project manager, but this course unveiled

After graduating from my undergrad in electronics and communication, I decided to choose a career where I can actually manage project and communicate more with people .But I had only technical skills and no managerial skills. Therefore to gain those skills I decided to pursue masters in engineering management.so that after graduating I will become either a project manager or a business analyst. Because by choosing any of these career I will actually communicate more with the people as well as I will take more responsibilities. So to fulfill my short term goal I am taking courses on project management, business analysis and information engineering and some technical course like database management and web design or user experience engineering. So by doing course on project management and business analysis I gain a knack on managing projects and analyzing a business .These courses will help me understand the roles of a project manager or a business analyst. As well as what all skills I will need and by doing a project I will get a real time practical experience. I believe doing a project will definitely help me to learn more real thing rather than gaining just theoretical knowledge by reading the books .So doing this course I will realize that how much good I am on my managing ability .Now by as I want to be a project manager in the software company ,it is very important for me to learn about the tools which are used in software organization .I cannot become a project

Project management takes the form of many job positions and roles within a job force. Project management to some, means a person who manages a project. This is a very broad title. Project managers can manage a project that covers a new program release, an implementation of a new method, or the creation of a physical product for a customer. For me, project management is taking a task from start to finish, with the goals of the customer in mind. Three roles that I would be interested in accepting would be a Retail Construction Project manager, Construction Project Manager, or Project Manager for Space planning.