Role: Consultant on Scheduling Practice topics

Murray has 33 years of project management, project controls, training, consulting, and expert witness experience. He has spent the majority of his career providing project management and project controls services on over 225 projects worldwide, with combined value estimated at around $18 billion. He has worked for owners, government entities, construction managers, general contractors, sureties, and his own companies.

Murray Woolf is:

Founder/president of the International Center for Scheduling, Inc (ICS), also known as ICS-Global.
Author of the 2nd best-selling construction scheduling book, according to Amazon.com: “FASTER Construction Projects with CPM Scheduling.”
Keynote Speaker, College of Scheduling Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2006
Globally-requested speaker, writer, and consultant on Scheduling Practice topics
Managing Director of PMI’s Scheduling Excellence Initiative (SEI) 2004-2006
His well-received speaking engagements gradually led to contractor requests for tailored consulting services, which he provided to the construction communities in Florida and Washington DC across two decades. His consulting firms guided his clients’ successful implementation of a wide range of Program/Project Management processes, including: Enterprise Project Management, Project Portfolio Management, Risk and Opportunity Management, Quality Assurance, Scope & Change Management, Communications, Cost, Organizational Development, Professional Training/Development, Contracts, Claims and Performance Measurement.

But without question, Murray’s passion – and the central mass of his experience – is in the area of construction project planning and scheduling. His best-selling book, “Faster Construction Projects with CPM Scheduling,” was made possible by the direct support of James J. O’Brien, who not only opened doors at McGraw-Hill, but asked to pen the book’s Foreword. Jim O’Brien is considered by most seasoned schedulers as the Father of Modern Scheduling. Jim cites Murray’s groundbreaking work in Momentum Management and Dilemma Forecasting as “my first encounter of a seasoned scheduler trying to help bridge the growing chasm between Project Management and ineffective scheduling practices.”

Murray also served for four years in leadership roles within the PMI College of Scheduling. He was the founding Director of the College’s Scheduling Excellence Initiative (SEI). SEI was chartered to draft best practices and guidelines for the Scheduling Practice. Murray served three years as SEI’s Managing Director, later advancing to an elected position as the Board’s first Vice President of SEI.

As Managing Director, Murray bore ultimate responsibility for the collective efforts of approximately 250 of the world’s leading experts in areas related to construction scheduling, including project initiation, project management, project planning, project scheduling, project management software, scheduled-based claims analysis, and project management training and research. He assembled and oversaw subject matter expertise from nearly twenty discrete industries that successfully and routinely employ project control and time management tools, techniques, methodologies, and personnel.

Since 2006, Murray has been devoting all of his energies to the development and growth of the International Center for Scheduling. ICS-Global, as it is better known, is at the cutting edge of construction planning and scheduling in the United States, and offers an impressive array of inter-connected operating divisions. Whether one is a consumer or provider of scheduling products and services, ICS-Global is a practical first stop in search of support, answers, or guidance.