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Murray Cantor

Advisory Board

Dr. Cantor is a retired IBM Distinguished Engineer. With his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley and extensive experience in the management of complex, innovative projects, he has focused on applying predictive reasoning and causal analysis to the execution and economics of project management.

After retiring from IBM, he was a founder and lead scientist of Aptage, a company that developed and delivered tools for learning and tracking the probability of meeting project goals. Aptage was sold to Planview.

Murray Cantor

Dr. Cantor is a retired IBM Distinguished Engineer. With his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley and extensive experience in the management of complex, innovative projects, he has focused on applying predictive reasoning and causal analysis to the execution and economics of project management.

After retiring from IBM, he was a founder and lead scientist of Aptage, a company that developed and delivered tools for learning and tracking the probability of meeting project goals. Aptage was sold to Planview.

Dr. Cantor’s quarter-century career with IBM included two periods:

  • an architecture and senior project manager for the Workstation Division, and

  • an IBM Distinguished Engineer in the Software Group and an IBM Rational CTO team member.

The second IBM stint resulted from IBM acquiring Rational Software, where he was Lead Engineer for Rational Services. In that role, he consulted on delivering very large projects at Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed, and various intelligence agencies. Before joining Rational, he was project lead at the defense and intelligence contractor TASC.

In addition to many articles, he is the author of two books: Object-Oriented Project Management with UML and Software Leadership. He is an inventor of 15 IBM patents.

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