Jeff Furman has a strong dual background as an Instructor and an IT Project Manager, with more than 20 years leading projects, and providing training for Fortune 100 companies and government agencies. He is certified both as a Project Manager and Technical Trainer as follows:
- He is PMP-certified (Project Management Professional, from PMI) as well as
CompTIA Project+ certified.
- He is also a Certified Technical Trainer (CompTIA CTT+).
He currently teaches as a consultant for several training companies, including NetCom Information Technology in Manhattan & Unitek College, based in Fremont, California.
Diverse teaching experience for Fortune 100 companies
Has developed and taught the following courses:
1) PMP Project Management
2) Advanced Presentation Skills
3) Computer Programming Languages (COBOL and Assembler)
4) Many I.T. Development Tools (debug tools, performance analyzers, data compare & manipulation tools)
15+ Years as an I.T. Project Manager (financial, NYC)
1) Managed I.T. Change Management System used by entire company
2) Managed Programmer Support Team supporting 3,000+ developers world-wide
3) Led many new product evaluations & implementations
4) Managed QA testing of mission-critical infrastructure software
Presentations / Publications
- Currently writing a book on Project Management for publication 4th Quarter 2010
- Gave a presentation for PMI NYC Chapter on Y2K Lessons Learned
- Published articles on Project Management, Risk Management and other I.T. topics for COMPUTERWORLD, Software Magazine, Technical Support Magazine
