My First Professional Portfolio

Building my first professional portfolio was a very valuable experience. Not only did I gain a valuable tool that will hopefully provide with me an edge over other potential job seekers, but I was also able to learn about myself during the process.

Perhaps the greatest asset that I gained from creating my professional portfolio was that I was able to reflect on where I stand in terms of my technical background and my experience in the field of Information and Computer Sciences. Upon my reflection I realized that not only do I need to gain more experience through jobs, projects, or otherwise, but I also need to bolster by technical experience by adding more depth to the breadth that I already have. Ideally, I would want to improve my depth at the same time that I improve my experience, but I will gladly study on my own time if necessary. Hopefully, ICS 414 will help me in both areas as I will gain a showcase project in my Hackystat Visual Studio sensor, and at the same time, improve my depth in Java programming and software engineering tools and practices.

Working on my professional portfolio has also made me realize how powerful a tool a blog can be. A blog provides a nice place where you can really showcase your interests and your passions in a free and relatively well organized means. Sometimes it is hard to express or hard to get people to listen to ideas not pertinent to the subject at hand. A blog can provide a great snapshot of your overall interests and passions. I hope to use my blog in this fashion.

The great thing now is that I know what I need to work on and I have a professional profile that I can use to showcase new achievements. Overall, I would have to say that having to create a professional portfolio was a very positive experience even though it brought to life some not so pleasant facts.