career advice to become Technical Architect

Ask Career Question |

Search |

Testimonials |

Career Advice Home |

Hi Sir,
I have 8 years of experience in ASP.net and SQLSERVER.as i am not so comfortable with planning and managing people i think aiming a projectmanager is difficult to me, as i go through some queries in this advice panel there is alternate career growth as Techinal Architect, until now i thought Projectmanager includes everthing, thanks to dotnetfunda..so i want to become the Techinal Architect.
please advice me how to plan and what are the things to learn to reach my goal.
i don't have any experince in WPF,WCF,silverlight and sharepoint.
my experience involves ASP.NET with vb.net and some portion with c#,windows service,webservice,infragistics
i can say i am more comfrotable with ASP.net using VB.net
i unable to decide the path to move either i go WPF..WCF... or completly move to sharepoint.
or i should know all .
please advice me.
Satish.

Kapil's Advice on Friday, March 30, 2012 :

Satish,

To grow as technical architect you need to learn everything. It is not either or Or situation.

You will need to learn WCF, WPF, Sharepoint, Databases, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX etc. As Architect you will be becoming the person who decides the plan and design of the entire system. When you are doing that you actually are solving the customer problem. It will be up to you to decided and evaluate several technologies be it sharepoint, or custom programming using WCF or any other product.

So to start becoming the Architect, grow at a level start thinking in terms of requirement gathering, use cases, designs, deployment of the system , performance aspects, caching strategies, best practices ...

Stop worrying about whether to go with this product or that product. It is not product that we work for we work to solve customer problem and whichever product solves it learn it , evaluate it and implement.

Note for Bandi_Satish : You can respond to this advice by logging into the website.

Found interesting? Add this to:

| More | Bookmark It

Ask Career Question

Latest Career Questions

Ask Career Question | More ...

Disclaimer: Reply given to your question by our expert panels are based on their personal experience who have been successful in their career or are well acquainted in the role they are/were playing. This may or may not be suitable in a specific circumstances, please consider this as an advice that may help you carve your career. DotNetFunda.Com or its expert panel members will not be responsible for loss of any kind because of any decision you take based on these advices.