About the Author

After 15 years of managing IT projects for Fortune 100 financial firms in the New York City area, Jeff Furman, PMP, teaches several levels of project management courses, from basic project management to PMP® Prep to Ethics in Project Management to Project Management Principles for Construction Professionals, at New York University in Manhattan. He also trains U.S. Army project managers on post at Fort Hood and Fort Bliss, Texas; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Fort Campbell, Kentucky. He has taught PMP® and Train-the-Trainer courses for Internet Institute USA, Unitek Education, and NetCom Learning, where he twice won NetCom’s Instructor of the Year award.

He has managed many IT projects, from new-product evaluations to enterprisewide software installations and infrastructure upgrades. He led the implementation and support of a mission-critical change management system used by more than 1,000 developers at a large Wall Street brokerage firm.

Jeff has published articles and contributed as a guest blogger on several hot project management topics: risk management, PMP® Test Tips, ethics, and social media. He has been interviewed about The Project Management Answer Book by leading project management bloggers including Elizabeth Harrin, Soma Bhattacharya, Christina Boryk, Kimberley Chan, Henry Will III, and others. He has recorded six popular podcasts with Cornelius Fichtner for The Project Management Podcast and The PDU Podcast as well as a series of video interviews about teaching PMP® certification with Russell Sarder for Sarder TV.

Jeff lives in Hoboken, New Jersey, with his wife, Martha Garvey. Their new puppy is a rescue tiger-pit named Mavis who loves swimming with Jeff and Martha in lakes, bays, and a pool for dogs in Manhattan.