Vijay Kanabar, Ph.D., is the director and associate professor of Project Management programs at Boston University, Metropolitan College. He is one of the earliest PMP credentialed practitioners from the Project Management Institute. He created one of the earliest PMP exam corporate training materials three decades ago and has introduced several thousand students and practitioners to the core exam concepts of both the CAPM® and Project Management Professional (PMP)® exams. Vijay also is an agile practitioner and has earned the PMI-ACP credential. He has authored several books and more than 75 research papers in IT and project management. He received the prestigious PMI Linn Stuckenbruck Teaching Excellence Award in 2017 for his commitment to teaching and enhancing the project management discipline in higher education. Arthur P. Thomas, Ed.M., Ph.D., is the executive director for the Office of Professional Acceleration and Microcredentials in the College of Professional Studies at Syracuse University, where he is also the program director for the Master of Professional Studies in Project Management. He has been teaching at SU since 2001 and has been a professor of practice since 2009, focusing his academic work on developing and administering project management courses and degree programs. Art is also the director of the iConsult Collaborative at Syracuse University, an experiential learning program he began leading in 2012 in which university students are engaged with client organizations in a diverse portfolio of information-related projects. Art was formerly the associate dean for Career Services and Experiential Learning, the associate dean for Academic Affairs, and the director of two information technology master's degree programs, all at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies (the iSchool). Positions on the corporate side of his career have ranged from programmer to chief information officer, and from trainer to chief learning officer. With his more than 30 years of added consulting experience, his contracts have taken him from the United States to Europe and the Middle East, where he led two projects for the Ministry of Education in the Sultanate of Oman. Thomas G. Lechler, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the School of Business, Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. His doctorate is from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He teaches project management and entrepreneurship. His research focuses on value creation in projects under situations of risk and uncertainty. Thomas has published his research in leading international research journals, including Research Policy, R&D Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Small Business Economics, International Journal of Project Management, and Project Management Journal, and he has authored several books in the fields of project management and entrepreneurship. He was awarded the Project Management Journal Paper of the Year, has received several research grants from PMI, and was a NASA research fellow.
