Certification Program Management overview

Manages professional certification programs for the engineering workforce -- maintaining a catalog of approved certifications mapped to career levels and specializations, tracking individual certification status and renewal timelines, coordinating exam scheduling and study-group formation, managing certification reimbursement budgets and approval workflows, analyzing certification coverage gaps against team capability requirements, reporting certification attainment trends by team and domain, and evaluating new certification programs for catalog inclusion. Produces certification coverage dashboard and budget utilization report. Excludes external training vendor selection.