Received his doctoral degree in engineering and computer science from Moscow State University. He has more than 20 years of experience as a structural engineer, software developer, and project manager. In the past 10 years he has been involved in a number of major projects performed by Fortune 500 companies and government agencies to establish effective decision analysis and risk management processes as well as to conduct risk analyses of complex projects. Lev’s current research interests include the application of decision analysis (www. projectdecisions.org ) and risk management to project management (www. intaver.com). He writes and speaks to conferences around the world on project decision analysis, including the psychology of judgment and decision-making, modeling of business processes, and risk management. Intaver Institute Inc. is a vendor of project risk management software RiskyProject. A desktop-based project risk management software. RiskyProject helps project managers to perform project scheduling, quantitative risk analysis, and project performance measurement. Since it was officially launched in October 2004, RiskyProject has become one of the leading tools for quantitative project risk analysis. Among our clients are NASA, Boeing, Research in Motion, Canadian Department of National Defense, Siemens, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, EDS, Hewlett Packard, ICBC, Mosaic, Electronic Arts, Los Alamos National Laboratory, SAS, Westinghouse, Rockwell, and many others.