I am pleased to apply for a study permit through the SDS program and I am submitting my application because my goal is to pursue a two years post graduate diploma in Computer Studies on X College, that will start at May 20, 2022. My goal with this program is to complete my technological training and enhance and update my resume, which will be necessary to give a boost to our family business in Colombia and develop new business opportunities both nationally and internationally.
I’m an industrial engineer, and completed my degree in 2000. While completing my bachelor degree, I took programming and design courses which made me think widely about my work expectations. Through the years, I have become very interested in software engineering, and have studied additional courses about graphic design, programming web pages, and making animations.
Additionally, I have worked on small work projects in these areas. In 2005 I applied for a Master degree in a University from Spain, where they and the Colombian government gave me a scholarship in order to make my dream come true. The program was an MBA with E-Business Specialization. After that Master I was able to work in managing web and educational projects and after years I, with my husband, we made our own business where we besides doing web projects, we sold technology devices including workstations, notebooks, netbooks, desktops pcs and nets devices. Also, I had the opportunity to be the community manager of an important multinational company, where I worked as a freelancer. After that, a series of political and economic events in our country along with the growth of our family make me do a pause and I only made small projects, but I want to resume my path again.
With the diploma in Computer Studies my objective is to acquire more technical skills with practical applications in computer systems, complementing and making stronger the manager (or administrative) background which I have been involved during last years. More practical skills will also help me to have wider business ideas that our country would need about different fields like education, agriculture training, social issues to be resolved, between others. Finally, I wish with the technical knowledge that I will gain, I could help my team in building well organized and innovative projects and take better technological decisions about the requirements of our clients.
I choose X College due to good recommendations, the excellent reputation the institution have, and good connections with the companies of Vancouver, that make me be sure about the actualization of the programs and languages because they need to be aligned with the industry actual necessities. X is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, where many technology corporations are being held, developing and growing.
I have the support of my family in this project, because we are very united and I consider they will also grow with the experience, because my husband, who I married 17 years ago, has technology experience as well and he will have the opportunity, if you give him the permission, to work in the field, in order to benchmark knowledge that will help our business once we return. Fortunately, most of our current clients in our country can be attending virtually while we are having this experience. Although we are aware we are going to lose some clients, the experience that we will have, will be a catapult in order to get more once we arrive in our country again. Our 16 and 9 years old sons, will also accompany us to this trip. Our goal is they can improve their English skills, they can know better another advanced culture, and have a growth intellectually, emotionally and socially.
This study project, that is a family project will be held thanks to the resources that we saved during all these years, product of our hard work of our company. We owned two accounts in our bank, where we have the following saldo:
Bank 1 saving account No. with
Bank2 saving account No. with
We have also a deposit of 10 CAD in the CIBC bank and I paid for a year ahead of the college payment.
I have travel to other countries like Spain. and other countries of the European union like France and Belgium while I was studying the master. Also, I with my family went to Argentina for vacations eight years ago and we always abide by the rules of the hosted country. Unfortunately, I was denied for a tourist USA visa in the year 2003 and I didn’t ask for it again. We also had the same study project 6 years ago, but in that time, we were going to New Zealand. Everybody was ready and they gave me all the visas and permissions required for my husband and kids. But the destiny had another project for us, and sadly we declined because a family calamity. We are happy our project came alive again and we have the possibility to follow our dream. We hope to give better prospects to our business once we arrive to Colombia after the two years of study, and bring with us a lot of new knowledges and benchmarkings of a first developed country.