Credentials
Certifications & courses
Every credential with month, issuer, what it covers, and what I took from it. The homepage Journey strip shows four highlights; this page holds the full set.
18 credentials
CertificationJul 202301 / 18
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management Institute
Details
Global gold-standard credential for leading complex programmes — scope, schedule, risk, stakeholders, and delivery governance under PMI's PMBOK framework.
Learnings
- End-to-end project lifecycle control across initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and closing
- Risk registers, change control, and earned-value thinking for executive-grade reporting
- Stakeholder management and decision cadence when multiple workstreams compete for the same capacity
Professional CertificateJan 202502 / 18
Microsoft Azure AI Essentials Professional Certificate
Microsoft and LinkedIn
Details
Practical grounding in Azure AI services, responsible AI principles, and how cloud AI capabilities map to real business problems — not just demos.
Learnings
- Azure OpenAI, Cognitive Search, and Language services as building blocks for enterprise use cases
- Responsible AI: fairness, reliability, privacy, transparency, and accountability before production
- Framing AI solutions around business outcomes instead of model novelty
CertificationAug 202303 / 18
Career Essentials in Generative AI
Microsoft and LinkedIn
Details
Foundational Generative AI literacy for operators — what the models can and cannot do, and how to brief teams without overselling capability.
Learnings
- Prompt patterns and failure modes that show up in delivery, not just in playgrounds
- Where generative AI fits in programme plans versus where process and data still dominate
- Communication frameworks for non-technical stakeholders evaluating GenAI bets
CourseJul 202504 / 18
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) Cert Prep
LinkedIn Learning
Details
Beginner-level prep for the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam — cloud concepts, security, core services, billing, and the shared responsibility model.
Learnings
- AWS global infrastructure and how regions/AZs affect resilience and cost
- Core services (compute, storage, networking, databases) at a decision-maker level
- Security, identity, and cost-management levers that matter in programme governance
Professional CertificateMar 202405 / 18
Atlassian IT Service Management (ITSM) Professional Certificate
Atlassian / LinkedIn Learning
Details
ITSM practices on the Atlassian stack — incident, change, and service request flows that keep delivery and operations aligned.
Learnings
- Incident and change management cadences that protect production without freezing velocity
- Service request vs project demand — routing work to the right system of record
- Using Jira Service Management patterns as an operating model, not just a ticket queue
Professional CertificateFeb 202406 / 18
Docker Foundations Professional Certificate
LinkedIn Learning
Details
Container fundamentals for delivery leaders who need to speak fluently with engineering about environments, packaging, and portability.
Learnings
- Images, containers, and volumes — what is portable vs what is environment-specific
- How containerization changes release risk, rollback, and local-to-prod parity
- Enough Docker literacy to challenge vague “it works on my machine” blockers in reviews
CourseApr 202507 / 18
AI for Project Management: Managing Risk with Generative AI
LinkedIn Learning · Daniel Stanton
Details
Applying generative AI to project risk identification, analysis, and communication — with human judgment still owning the call.
Learnings
- Using GenAI to surface risk categories and early signals from plan and status text
- Guardrails so AI-assisted risk registers stay auditable and owned by a named human
- Briefing executives with AI-augmented risk narratives without inventing false precision
CourseJul 202508 / 18
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02) Cert Prep
LinkedIn Learning
Details
Advanced AWS architecture prep covering multi-account design, hybrid connectivity, cost optimization, and resilience patterns at professional level.
Learnings
- Trade-offs across high availability, cost, and operational complexity
- How enterprise landing zones and networking choices constrain product delivery
- Reading architecture proposals with a programme-owner lens, not a cert-cram lens
CertificationJul 202309 / 18
Program Management Foundations
LinkedIn Learning
Details
Multi-project coordination — benefits realization, dependency management, and the difference between project success and programme outcomes.
Learnings
- Programme vs project: shared resources, sequenced benefits, and portfolio trade-offs
- Dependency maps and governance forums that keep sponsors honest about capacity
- Benefits tracking that survives the first status-meeting optimism
CertificationJun 202310 / 18
Foundations of Project Management
Coursera
Details
Core PM practices — charters, WBS, schedules, and stakeholder maps — as a shared language across delivery teams.
Learnings
- Scoping and planning rituals that prevent silent scope creep
- Communication plans matched to stakeholder power and interest
- Closing and lessons-learned loops that actually feed the next programme
CertificationMay 202311 / 18
Product Analytics Micro-Certification (PAC)™
Product School
Details
Product analytics fluency — instrumentation, funnel thinking, and evidence-based prioritization for product and programme seats.
Learnings
- Defining North Star and supporting metrics before shipping vanity dashboards
- Experiment design and interpreting results without p-hacking the narrative
- Translating analytics into roadmap and capacity decisions
CertificationApr 202312 / 18
Project Management: Technical Projects
LinkedIn Learning
Details
Delivery patterns specific to technical and engineering programmes — estimation, technical risk, and cross-functional coordination.
Learnings
- Estimating under uncertainty without pretending story points are contracts
- Technical debt as a portfolio risk, not a side conversation
- Bridging product intent and engineering constraints in one plan
CourseMay 202213 / 18
Quality Management for Operational Excellence
LinkedIn Learning · Richard Chua
Details
Quality systems for operations — how measurement, process control, and continuous improvement keep delivery reliable at scale.
Learnings
- Building quality into the process instead of inspecting defects at the end
- Operational metrics that catch drift before customers do
- Linking quality gates to programme go-live criteria
CourseMay 202214 / 18
Operational Excellence Foundations
LinkedIn Learning
Details
Foundations of operational excellence — waste reduction, standard work, and the habits that make programmes repeatable.
Learnings
- Seeing waste in handoffs, rework, and waiting — not only in headcount
- Standardizing the few rituals that matter; leaving teams room everywhere else
- Continuous improvement as a weekly habit, not an annual workshop
CourseApr 202415 / 18
Design Thinking: Understanding the Process
LinkedIn Learning · Chris Nodder
Details
Design thinking stages — empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test — as a disciplined problem-framing method for complex programmes.
Learnings
- Problem framing before solution shopping
- Rapid prototyping as risk reduction, not theatre
- Facilitating cross-functional discovery without losing delivery ownership
CourseAug 202116 / 18
The Six Biases of Decision-Making
LinkedIn Learning · Drew Boyd
Details
Cognitive biases that distort programme decisions — and practical counters so steering committees decide on evidence, not comfort.
Learnings
- Recognizing confirmation, sunk-cost, and availability bias in status reviews
- Decision hygiene: pre-mortems, devil's advocate, and written decision logs
- Slowing high-stakes calls just enough to catch bias without killing pace
CourseSep 202317 / 18
Advanced Conflict Resolution Techniques for Executives
LinkedIn Learning
Details
Executive-level conflict tools — interest-based negotiation, difficult conversations, and keeping programmes moving when sponsors disagree.
Learnings
- Separating positions from interests in steering and vendor negotiations
- Structured conversation patterns for high-stakes disagreement
- Protecting the delivery outcome while repairing working relationships
CertificationJan 201618 / 18
Software Testing
QSpiders
Details
Hands-on software testing fundamentals — test design, defect lifecycle, and quality signals that still inform how I run release gates today.
Learnings
- Test case design and defect triage as early risk sensors
- Why “QA at the end” fails programmes that need continuous verification
- Speaking with engineering about coverage without becoming a bottleneck
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