Dana Mills, PMP
Spring Hope, NC
BUCEC, Certificate of Project Management

Dana Mills had experience with web-based learning before beginning her Certificate in Project Management from Boston University Corporate Education Center. “I found it to be pretty easy since I’d done it once before,” she said. “Overall I would rate my experience as a solid eight.”

Dana worked in the project management field for years before finally deciding to become PMP certified. “I’d been doing the work for years, but I wanted to be recognized as an official project manager. Now that I earned my Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, I’m taken more seriously and so is my work,” she said. “Even in situations where I’m not necessarily given the title of ‘lead’, I still end up leading the project because I have the qualifications to back it up.”

Life outside of school had prepared Dana well for the additional responsibilities of school. “I had a lot of commitments outside class and studying. I was a mother, plus work was incredibly busy,” she said. “Because of her previous experience, Dana wasn’t worried. “I knew what I was getting into when I signed up, so I knew I was going to have to balance many things at once. It was just a matter of scheduling everything that needed to be done.”

Dana also has some advice for those who are still wavering on whether to go back to school: “Don’t procrastinate. I would have gone back and gotten my project management certification much sooner had I realized how much of a difference those little initials meant behind my name.”

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