180- Project Management & the PMP with Tamara McLemore

The Teacher Career Coach Podcast

Daphne Gomez

Business, Education, Careers, Self-improvement

4.4 • 786 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Tamara McLemore, PMP, PMI-ACP, is an experienced project manager, having spent over 20 years in varying industries with her certification, including tech, aviation, and the US government, just to name a few. Now, as a speaker and coach, she teaches women—including several teachers—how to successfully study for and pass the PMP Certification exam. Join us to learn all about becoming a Project Manager! Find Tamara on Linkedin. Free Quiz: What career outside of the classroom is right for you? Explore the course that has helped thousands of teachers successfully transition out of the classroom and into new careers: The Teacher Career Coach Course Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Teacher Career Coach podcast with your new host, Elizabeth Sudo.
0:04.6	She started her teaching career in 2014. She found she needed a career change after all the changes that pandemic brought to the teaching world.
0:13.7	So she transitioned outside of the classroom into an administrative assistant role and now works as an operations manager for a tech startup.
0:22.8	Get ready for discussions on all things related to teacher transitions, interview prep,
0:28.0	addressing burnout in the classroom, and so much more.
0:31.6	Here's your host, Elizabeth Sudo.
0:34.5	Welcome back to the Teacher Career Coach podcast. You can find us on all your social channels at
0:40.9	Teacher Career Coach or on our website, teachercareercoach.com. Hi everyone and welcome back to our next
0:50.0	episode. Today we get to meet Tamara McLevor. She's an experienced project manager,
0:57.0	having spent over 20 years in various industries with her certification, including tech,
1:04.2	aviation, and the U.S. government, just to name a few. Now she's a speaker and a coach,
1:12.6	and she teaches many individuals, including several teachers, how to successfully study for and pass the PMP certification exam
1:20.1	through her program. She also offers a fundamentals program for those who are just getting started.
1:26.7	Join us today as we discuss all things
1:29.5	related to project management. Hope you enjoy. Well, welcome back, everyone, today. We are very excited
1:37.0	to have Tamara McLemore with us. Welcome, Tamara. Thank you for having me. I'm super excited to be here
1:42.9	today. Well, we're so excited to learn from you. And I feel like the timing is just perfect because we have quite a few educators and teachers looking to get their PMP and go into the project management space. So we'd love to learn a little bit about your background because I know initially
2:01.9	you worked in project management. So can you tell us a little bit about your experience?
2:07.3	Yes, I've been in project management for over 20 years. I started with telecoms, which is in
2:12.8	cell sites, and that is the technology that we're talking on now with AT&T.
2:18.2	And then I work for the federal government.
2:20.6	So I've done hospitals.
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