Manager of Info Systems (MIS)

vCole

Anyone here a MIS, or on their way to be one? This is the career path that I would like to take. I will be going back to school for get my Associates in IT specialist & then transferring to a four year school to obtain my Bachelor's in Comp. Info Systems. I realize you need 5 years experience at the very least to be considered. I have ~4 months as of right now, but by the time I finish school (I will still be working fulltime) I'll have roughly that amount. Any tips? Am I going about this the right way??

vCole

No one? Even after 63 views?

cisco_trooper

It sounds like you are doing all you can at the moment. Just make sure you continue to learn on the job and continue to make progress. 5 years of help desk is probably not the 5 years of experience they are looking for. They are going to want to see you are earning progressively more responsibility throughout your IT career.

vCole

cisco_trooper wrote:

It sounds like you are doing all you can at the moment. Just make sure you continue to learn on the job and continue to make progress. 5 years of help desk is probably not the 5 years of experience they are looking for. They are going to want to see you are earning progressively more responsibility throughout your IT career.

Understandably. My company is allowing me to grow into any position I want really since we're expanding so rapidly.

cisco_trooper

Just make sure you don't continue to have that one dude continue to undermine your efforts by taking projects away from you. If this continues to happen you need to consider leaving the company.



Also, have you talked to this guy about that? He MAY think he is doing you a favor....

dynamik

I think you've learned something else important as well: post important questions between 9 and 5

Just don't let work interfere with your grades. That sounds like a difficult program to get into, and there's no point getting 5 years of experience if it causes you to end up with a 2.1 GPA.

vCole

Well I'm a very determined person. I still live at home which is a plus, so I'm not stressing over rent or bills.

I work full-time because I can, not because I have to.

If I need to switch companies, what do you think would be the best possible thing to focus on learning? Servers? Networking?? IP Addressing & Subnetting always get me! :P

cisco_trooper

FadeToBright wrote:

Well I'm a very determined person. I still live at home which is a plus, so I'm not stressing over rent or bills.

I work full-time because I can, not because I have to.

If I need to switch companies, what do you think would be the best possible thing to focus on learning? Servers? Networking?? IP Addressing & Subnetting always get me! :P

If you are in help desk right now you may want to focus on systems stuff (mcsa or mcse) for a bit so you can move up to a systems admin type role in the future. from there i'd hit cisco. the mcse knowledge will help you get out of help desk because you will begin providing higher level solutions and will start keeping calls out of tier 2.

slideoff

I just started the BS in IT program at Western Governors University. The cool thing about it is that it is all competency based, so you can work at your own pace and get it done faster if you wish. You also earn IT certifications (which the tuition pays for 1st and second attempts for each test). So I will graduate with a Bachelors Degree in IT and will also have MCSE, A+, Network+, Security+, Project+ and a couple other certs. They also have an MBA program with emphasis in IT which will be great for what you want to do.

dynamik

I agree. Stick with the MS stuff while you're at it. Mix in some CompTIA material to break it up. Non-stop MS will corrupt your soul.

IP addressing and subnetting are a breeze once it clicks. Don't let them intimidate and discourage you.

cisco_trooper

dynamik wrote:

IP addressing and subnetting are a breeze once it clicks. Don't let them intimidate and discourage you.

+10000

vCole

dynamik wrote:

IP addressing and subnetting are a breeze once it clicks. Don't let them intimidate and discourage you.

Just getting it to click is tough right now.

cisco_trooper

FadeToBright wrote:

dynamik wrote:

IP addressing and subnetting are a breeze once it clicks. Don't let them intimidate and discourage you.

Just getting it to click is tough right now.

Pick up a CCNA book. That should set you straight.

vCole

cisco_trooper wrote:

FadeToBright wrote:

dynamik wrote:

IP addressing and subnetting are a breeze once it clicks. Don't let them intimidate and discourage you.

Just getting it to click is tough right now.

Pick up a CCNA book. That should set you straight.

I've already taken Cisco 1 & 2 @ my previous college.

cisco_trooper

Just focus on the subnetting portion of it. Here, check this out:

CCNA Prep Center
http://forums.cisco.com/eforum/servlet/PrepCenter?page=main

They have a subnetting game or something if I remember right.

vCole

cisco_trooper wrote:

Just focus on the subnetting portion of it. Here, check this out:

CCNA Prep Center
http://forums.cisco.com/eforum/servlet/PrepCenter?page=main

They have a subnetting game or something if I remember right.

Thanks!

famosbrown

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