Professional & Workforce Development

Business Information Technology Leadership
Certificate Program

The Business Information Technology Leadership (BITL) Certificate Program meets the information technology systems leadership and management continuing education requirements of the global business market. The BITL Certificate Program provides 8.4 continuing education units (CEU). Each course provides 1.2 CEUs. Program study topics range from the Introduction to Information Technology Systems Leadership course to successive IT leadership-focused courses. Each program course is a separate, stand-alone module integrated within the context of the BITL Certificate Program. The program courses are focused, comprehensive, and interactive. Students will realize the greatest benefit when taking the entire certificate program; however, students may also enroll in individual BITL courses.

Who Should Attend the BITL Certificate Program?
The BITL Certificate Program is designed specifically for intermediate-level business staff, professionals, leaders, and managers involved with information technology systems, persons interested in transitioning to the information technology industry, and information technology professionals desiring to enhance their information technology leadership and management competencies, skills, knowledge, and abilities.

BITL Certificate Program Completion Time-frame
The BITL Certificate Program seven courses can be completed in one collegiate academic semester. Courses meet twice each week for three hours and occasionally on Saturdays.

BITL Certificate Program Prerequisites
The single BITL Certificate Program prerequisite is that students be interested in learning as much as possible about leading and managing information technology resources, processes, and environments.

Introduction to Information System Leadership $445
As today’s and tomorrow’s leaders, managers, entrepreneurs, or business specialists, business leaders need to understand the concepts of information technology leadership in today’s networked enterprises and global business markets. This course provides exposure and understanding of information systems components, uses, challenges, and leadership and management approaches to address today’s IT challenges. This course introduces students to IT resources and addresses the interconnected relationships of IT for global business success. The course emphasizes the leadership and management competencies to enable organizations to leverage IT to achieve their business goals and objectives and to support business operations, managerial decision making, and achieve competitive and strategic advantages.
Instructor: William Boddie
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Information Systems Analysis Management $445
Systems analysis enables the business and systems analyst to perform a myriad of systems analysis in a structured manner. This course provides the student an in-depth study of systems analysis fundamentals, best industry practices and standards, and the systems lifecycle. The course helps non-technical professionals understand system requirements and specifications. This course will cover data flow diagrams, data dictionaries, entity relationship diagrams, input-output processing charts and methods addressing data and processing. Emphasis is on logical systems analysis that identifies system elements, with hand-on exercises and cases performed in and out of class. This course assumes no computer programming knowledge.
Instructor: William Boddie
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Enterprise Architecture Leadership $445
Enterprise Architecture Leadership introduces the enterprise architecture as an organizational strategic enabler to support strategic planning, decision-making, and business process execution. Students understand enterprise architecture as a recognized approach to describe an organization's current and desired business environments. The course defines enterprise architecture, describes the enterprise architecture background, its current status, and critical importance of leadership as the cornerstone of an effective enterprise architecture capability. Students explore real-world examples of organizations that use enterprise architecture to support their strategic business objectives. Students complete both in and out-of-class assignments.
Instructor: William Boddie
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Transforming Organizations through Business Process Reengineering Leadership $445
Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is the application of information technology system solutions to improve business process effectiveness, efficiency, and to reduce business costs. Students will learn proven methods to reengineer organizational business processes using leadership and management principles, processes, tools, and techniques. The course introduces students to business process reengineering principles using an accepted BPR lifecycle methodology, the industry standard integrated Definition for Functional Modeling (DEF) 0 modeling methodology, and business case development.
Instructor: William Boddie
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Project Management $445
This course focuses on a structured approach to managing projects, enabling project completion on time, budget, and meeting project requirements. Project management professionals worldwide employ industry standard project management practices and procedures for projects of all sizes. Businesses worldwide have discovered that formal project management significantly increases the probability of overall project success. This course emphasizes the importance of planning as the cornerstone of effective project management. The course reviews the four project lifecycle phases and includes plans, templates, and terminology used in the project management arena. Participants will learn how to lead a project using industry standard methods, tools, and techniques.
Instructor: William Boddie
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MS Project 2003 $475
Microsoft Project 2003 is the most popular software application used to automate many of the project management support functions. This course introduces students to the functionality, features, and capabilities of MS Project 2003. The course provides practical experience and enables students to plan projects, tasks, and activities, and allocate resources using MS Project 2003. The course enables students to develop and schedule project timelines, manage costs and schedules, track project progress, and produce essential management reports. Students also learn how to link tasks and activities, develop and use Gantt Charts and network diagrams, enter project data, and compare planned project data to actual project data. Course prerequisite: BITL 505 (Project Management)
Instructor: William Boddie
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Information Technology Systems Security Management $445
This course provides the student with an in-depth study of information systems security management principles, processes, and practices. Information technology systems security is a rapidly growing area of critical concern to business leaders and managers. Businesses are placing sensitive and critical data on automated information systems and need to protect the integrity of the data. Information technology systems security provides the foundation for maintaining integrity for the information technology systems components including hardware, software, database, telecommunications, people, and data. This course addresses various aspects of information technology systems security, discusses real-world cases of information system security incidents, trends, and issues. The course also provides instruction on the developing information technology system security plans and conducting security-related risk assessments.
Instructor: William Boddie
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OTHER COURSES IN PROFESSIONAL & WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Proposal Writing Basics $149
Learning the basics of developing a grant proposal is an important skill to master. This course will show you the basic elements of proposal writing and how to put together a strong and concise proposal. You will learn gain useful insight into what private funders seek in winning proposals.
Instructor: CEWD Staff
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CAREER & TECHNICAL CERTIFICATION PREP

MCSE-Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer $5999
This hands-on class helps you build the skills to effectively implement, deploy and manage complex network environments based upon the Windows 2003 operating system. The course is broken into 7 separate sections, each mapping to a specific certification objective required to obtain the coveted MCSE certification! Students will be required to spend additional time outside of class with reading assignments, lab exercises and class projects.
Instructor: Staff
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CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) $2295
The goal of this course is to prepare professionals for the challenging CISSP exam, covering the objectives of the exam as defined in the ISC (2) common body of knowledge. CISSPs are expected to have a broad range of skills across security policy development and management, as well as technical understanding of a wide range of security controls across all disciplines within Information Security. Our program offers high quality training by a certified and experienced instructor. Enrollment in this course requires documentation of US citizenship or VISA status.
Instructor: Max Lasheen
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COMPTIA Network+ $700
The Network + certification is designed to provide entry-level skills on working in today’s complex networking environment. This course will help you meet all necessary objectives to pass the Comptia Network+ certification exam.
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