About
Who is the Blue Collar PMP?
I'm Tyler Babin. I'm a third-generation IBEW electrician who put in ten years with the tools, then took a P6 course and spent two more years fighting to break into project controls. Fifteen-plus years later I hold a PMP and work as a Senior Technical Commissioning Coordinator at Tesla. Now I'm making the pivot that brings it all together: AI architect.
/ Ten years with the tools
My construction career started when I got out of the Marines in 2000 and went into electrical work. I'm a third-generation union electrician, and I did ten years in the field as an IBEW journeyman wireman. I know what the work costs: the physical toll, the long hours, and pay that doesn't match either one.
/ The pivot
In 2008, my family walked away from our mortgage, and I decided I needed a different way to make a living in construction. My dad told me scheduling was the golden jewel of construction: the niche nobody thinks about until they need it, and then they can't live without it. So I took a Primavera P6 course.
I've always had an uncanny knack for seeing where the work is going before it gets there. In 2008 I could see the trades were going to keep costing me my body while the real leverage moved to the people who planned the work. So I got out of the field and into project controls.
Then it took me two years to actually get into project controls. A course certificate doesn't get you hired on its own. It took two years of pushing before somebody gave a wireman a shot at the schedule.
/ Fifteen years in project controls
I broke into project controls around 2010 and I've been in it ever since: fifteen-plus years now, twenty-five-plus in construction all told. Scheduling, progress monitoring, cost engineering, project coordination. I earned my PMP in 2018. The schedule stopped beating me the day I learned to read it better than the trailer.
/ The next pivot
Same instinct as 2008. I can see scheduling going the way the trades went: the manual work is getting eaten by software, and the leverage is moving to the people who automate the workflows. So I'm getting out of manual scheduling and into automating workflows with AI.
To be clear, going back to the trades is where the money is right now. But I believe the knowledge work of the future is training AI. Somebody has to teach the machines how the work actually gets done, and I'd rather be the one doing the training.
Twenty-five years in construction taught me how work gets built. Fifteen years in project controls taught me how it gets planned. Now I'm building AI agents that carry that knowledge, so field leaders get answers that used to take a twenty-year veteran, right on the phone in their pocket.
This is my escape from the expert trap. The trap is becoming the person everyone depends on and nobody can replace, until your expertise owns you instead of the other way around. The way out isn't learning more. It's building systems that carry what you know, so the knowledge keeps working when you're not in the room. That's the business I'm building, and Blue Collar PMP is where it starts.
/ Why Blue Collar PMP
Nobody hands field guys this knowledge. The training goes to the office, the licenses go to the trailer, and the field gets told to figure it out. I had to go get it myself, and it took me years, including two just to get in the door. Blue Collar PMP exists so the next craft worker doesn't have to do it the hard way. I teach schedule literacy the way it should have been taught: plain words, field first, stuff you can use Monday morning.
/ Start here
I went from journeyman wireman to the Blue Collar PMP the hard way. If you're ready to hang up your tools, I'll show you the path: plainly, one technique at a time.