Tamie Penning, project and web services manager, earned her Project Management Professional certification on Nov. 22. Earners of the globally-recognized Project Management Professional (PMP) have demonstrated their extensive knowledge and mastery of project management concepts, tasks and techniques that are applicable across any industry and methodology. Earners are able to speak and understand the global language of project management and have demonstrated the knowledge and skills to initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control, and close a project.

According to the Project Management Institute, there are over 750,000 certified project managers globally, two of which are at LLCC. Esteban Cruz, chief information officer, is LLCC’s first PMP, having earned his certification in 2013.