About Jeff
  • Currently teaching PMP Project Management for: Unitek Education, IIUSA, NetCom Learning, and just added to the faculty at NYU and have trained more than 550 PMs toward the PMP, CAPM, Project+
  • PMP Book Author – wrote The Project Management Answer Book for publisher Management Concepts (2011, Vienna, VA)
  • Presentation Skills Certification Training - Has trained more than 200 instructors toward 3 certifications: CompTIA CTT+, Microsoft MCT, Adobe ACI
  • IT Project Manager (15 years experience for Fortune 500 companies in the NYC area)
  • Training Manager (has evaluated, implemented, and managed many IT courses taught by education vendors and software companies)
  • PMP Tutor (has trained many students in the NYC / NJ area and helped them pass their PMP exams on the first try)

Jeff Furman is the author of The Project Management Answer Book (Publisher: Management Concepts, Vienna, VA, Jan. 2011).

He is a PMP-certified project manager, and currently teaches PMP, as well as Presentation Skills / Train-the-Trainer for several training companies: Unitek Education, IIUSA, NetCom, and NYU.

Diverse teaching experience for Fortune 500 companies

He has developed and taught many courses, including:

1) PMP Project Management (currently teaching)

2) Presentation Skills For Trainers (currently teaching)

3) Computer Programming Languages: COBOL and Assembler

4) Many I.T. Development Tools: dev tools, testing tools, performance analyzers, data compare software

15 years experience as an I.T. Project Manager (Fortune 500 firms, NYC)

1) Managed a mission-critical, 24×7 I.T. Change Management System for a large brokerage firm in NYC

2) Managed Programmer Support Team supporting 3,000+ developers world-wide

3) Led many new software evaluations & implementations

4) Managed QA testing of infrastructure software

Presentations / Publications / Awards

  • Will be presenting for PMI NYC October 26, 2011 on“Presentation Skills For PMs”
  • Book: “The Project Management Answer Book” - published by Management Concepts in January 2011.
  • Appeared on the panel August 24, 2010 for ASTD NY: “The Value of Certifications for L&D Professionals”
  • Gave a presentation for PMI NYC Chapter on Y2K Lessons Learned
  • Published articles on Project Management, Risk Management, I.T. software and Y2K for COMPUTERWORLD, Software Magazine, Technical Support Magazine
  • Won “Instructor of the Year Award” two consecutive years for Netcom Information Technology (2008 and 2009)
  • Won “Rock Solid” customer service award for Prudential (2002 & 2003)

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