Eric Hodgson ⋅ Bethesda, MD Hewlett Packard ⋅ 20 years experience

Andre - , please feel free to send on your resume. In addition to the advice already posted, consider what niche in IT security your interests lie: Network or app? Servers, WINTWL or Unix/Linux? More hands on or programmatic oversight? Certs (CISSP / Security +, CAP) . Also security clearance and where you would like to work (geography)

Eric

eric.hodgson@hp.com

Tom Cal, CFA ⋅ San Francisco, CA Army Veteran, Investment Manager ⋅ 25 years experience

Andre - Feedback is appreciated and useful. Has any of this been helpful and how can we help?

Ian McGregor ⋅ Durham, NC IBM ⋅ 17 years experience

Andre - Please send it to me and I'll provide some feedback. Also, a good way to self-review your resume is to go out on a few job websites and look at a sampling of the requirements/preferences that employers have put out on job postings that you'd be interested in. The point of this exercise isn't to compare your qualifications to their laundry lists, it's to give you a picture of trends across the industry so that you can focus the experience you do have in those areas, or even do some additional learning on them. It also helps you get up to date with the latest lingo and hot button issues so that you can incorporate them into your own resume when possible.

-- Ian
imcgreg@us.ibm.com

Jeff Boleman ⋅ Stillwater, MN U.S. Army Reserve, Staff Sergeant ⋅ 6 years served

I'd be glad to review it and make some suggestions. Just email it to jkbolema@us.ibm.com

Joe Moore ⋅ Kirkland, WA ⋅ 23 years experience

Feel free to send it over to me... jbm1971@gmail.com.

Joe

Trevor Heringer ⋅ Bellevue, WA ⋅ 15 years experience

Hi Andre, Tom always has a good answer and has provided a great resource. As an additional starting place, you could take a look at some relevant career sites and do a search for cybersecurity jobs, then make sure to incorporate some of the wording you see into your resume.

For example, if you searched in Microsoft:
https://careers.microsoft.com/search.aspx?gl=gbl
You might find the following:
https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=1&jid=124667&jlang=EN&pp=SS
https://careers.microsoft.com/jobdetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=2&jid=114050&jlang=EN&pp=SS

Also, sorry if it's in the profile and I missed it, but when do you (more specifically) expect to start the civilian career, and where would you like to land for location? As you get closer (4-5 months) to the point where you are looking to land a job, let me know and I can provide a couple of recruiter names who would be happy to review your resume and provide advice.

Trevor

Tom Cal, CFA ⋅ San Francisco, CA Army Veteran, Investment Manager ⋅ 25 years experience

For advice re IT careers and skills-development, see:
"IT Certifications, and how they can help veterans get into the IT field"

https://acp-advisornet.org/question/1021/it-certifications-and-how-they-can-help-veterans-get-into-the-it-field