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Wondering if a Carnegie Mellon degree is right for you? Read along as our students chronicle their journey through the MS in Software Management program.

	Amin is a second year grad student in the MS Software Management program, a former Software Design Engineer from Microsoft and a current Software Engineer at Adify, a Silicon Valley startup. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, software and traveling. He would love to start a software company someday.
	Vineet is a second year part-time software management student, currently working @NetApp also nominated as the best place to work in North America recently. His area of expertise is Oracle ERP solutions. Other professional areas of interest are SaaS markets both technologically and business wise. @CMU he wants to grow his knowledge to manage software products and businesses. He is interested in work on start up ideas. On the personal side he loves to spend time with his family and travel.
	Rene is a recent alum, a manager of operations and program manager in Cisco's software development organization, the mother of two daughters and a performing arts fan.

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Is Carnegie Mellon West Right for You?

I work as a Product Strategy Manager for Oracle in its applications division. I have over ten years of experience in software applications implementation and product development for supply chain management solutions.

With a background in Production and Industrial Engineering, I was looking to learn best practices in software engineering and software business management – concepts for software strategy that would help me immediately in my day-to-day work. At the same time, it was very important for me to balance my work, school, and family lives.

CMU West offers a degree in Software Management. It seemed like the course was tailor-made for my needs. The ability to interact with an accomplished and amazing faculty and to work with industry peers was exciting. My only concern was “Time.” Would I be able to devote the time and make the commitment required to transform my career?

I spoke to current students to get their perspectives, and I also spoke to Professor Martin Griss before I started my application to the program. Professor Griss told me that the degree was meant for busy professionals, and the individual courses and tasks were designed to take no more than 15 to 20 hours each week. The tasks typically required collaboration within and across various student teams.

In summary, these were the important points that I considered when exploring the possibility of attending a graduate program on a part-time basis:

1. A Software Engineering Management program offered by Carnegie Mellon University in the Silicon Valley that suited my career aspirations;

2. Networking opportunities with exceptional students, faculty, and alumni.

3. A course designed for busy professionals.

I made a good choice. And it may be the right choice for you, too!

posted by Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley @ 9:55 AM 

1 Comments:

 Unknown said...

Hi,

I've read your weblog @ CMU and have some quick questions about this school. Since I'm applying for this school, Is there any way that I can email you some time?

Thanks,

April 26, 2007 at 9:30 PM  

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