2007-Dec-5 - QA career path again - a chance for me

The project I had been doing was suddently announced STOP yesterday. It was a big shock for most of the engineers in our team because it was the first time for many of us to encounter termination of a project during construction phase. Managements comforted us saying that it was a great chance for us to change to something we really wanted to do. Since our team had been working on this project (different versions) for almost 3 years, now it finally gives us a break to get a good think about our path and choice.
I consider this a big chance for me to expand my skills for QA career. So I first of all list my advantages and shortcomings.

Experienced:
Gateway product testing (protocols: FTP/SMTP/POP3, and a little HTTP)
Blackbox testing (execution, case design, and bug reporting)
Functional testing, integration testing, system testing, regression testing
Document review
Manual and automation testing
UI testing, installation testing
Automation tools: QTP, AutoIt, and others (http://www.sqablogs.com/ally/1113/My+tool+kit.html)
Windows and Linux application testing
Network knowledge (CCNA certified)
Globalization testing (internationalization & localization)
Post-sale product sustenance

Little experienced:
Scripts: VB, Perl
Mentoring interns

No clue:
Web application
Database application (SQL, Oracle)
Performance test

Now it's clear for me what skills I need to put on - Web/database application testing, performance testing, more scripting and automation experience, and more project experience. And of course, for long term, I will also learn to write test plans, create strategies and schedules, analyse testing effectiveness from various testing data. I will choose a project that can help me to gain these skills.