Changing Career path retail to Web development

 Hi all,

I am looking for advice on changing sector/role/career... Here is my backstory.

I've primarily been in retail management throughout my career. Intending to start in web/software development. Aged 35 and based in Ireland.

I'm attending university - distance programme so I'm available to work also - and filling in the gaps with relevant online courses. In the early 2000's I started web dev as a hobby so I'm not completely new to it. Also my college assessments are always A's or B's (Computing/programming all A's). I've also completed Udacity.com's CS101 and attained "Highest Distinction".

My plan is as follows:

• Complete some web dev specific courses over the summer (Stanford, Udacity, Google).
• Build a small portfolio site with 4 -  6 sites/web apps.
• Attend career fairs, web summits, lean weekends.
• Work my small but real network

Current Skills:

• solid HTML and CSS
• reasonable javascript, PHP, Python
• Jquery, Bootstrap

So any advice considering I am pushing to get working in a real environment a.s.a.p.

Thanks in advance,

Warren.