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Name: Christian Barbu
Current Location: United States
Originally from: Romania
Title: Manager, Information Systems
Next Step: Possibly earning a Ph.D.
School: Walden University
Target: MBA, 2007
What's interesting about Christian's story is that he was already involved with the process of getting a degree online before he actually went for it himself.
As the manager of information systems manager for a higher education company, Christian put his computer skills to work, helping to create the very sort of Web sites that he would later utilize in pursuit of his M.B.A. degree. But when he first started his job he was enrolled in William Paterson University as a traditional student. He found the combination of work and school to be taxing.
"I would take very early morning classes, the ones that started at 7 am," he recalls, "and then drive after work to those that were offered late at night."
He found that between working in an office and going to school, he was spending more time and money stuck in traffic than was efficient.
When his college introduced BlackBoard, which offered students the opportunity to complete some of their coursework online, Christian jumped on it.
He was already familiar with the platform because of his work in IT, and being able to work on his academics from anywhere he could bring his laptop made his whole life easier to manage.
But WPU would only let students earn so many credits through the online program, so Christian had to spend a few more hours in traffic before he earned his B.S in Business Management and Administration in 2004.
With his B.S. in hand, Christian became Director of Information Technology at a college in New Jersey. It was while on the job at a national conference called League for Innovation in the Community Colleges that Christian discovered Walden University.
Though Christian was no longer a student, his interest was piqued when he wandered across Walden's booth.
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