My life experience has dictated my future goals and aspirations.  Listed below is a list of my professional goals for the near and distant future.

1.  Continue my education.  As mentioned in other blog entries I miss the management arena.  I have many skills that are now not being used.  To build on these skills and to better form my professional life I have decided to return to college for my masters in Business Administration.  I expect to return to college Fall 2010.  My goal is to use my technical skills in combination with my management skills to either start my own technology based business or become a vital part of an established organization’s employee infrastructure.   This employment transition will not take place anytime soon – current employer can relax.

2.  Compliance is who I am.  My goal is to build my systems-compliance knowledge.   They are many compliance standards I would like to learn.  My goal is to attempt to become knowledgeable on at least one new compliance standard per week.  A few of the future compliance standards I would like to learn include PCI DSS, FISMA, and HIPAA.  Follow my twitter to keep updated on what I am learning.

3.  Certifications.  I need certifications.  I need to complete my A+.  I need to get as many supporting certifications as financially and logically possible.

4.  I need to regularly update my blog.  Keep on me – I need to do this.