Introduction of Instructor/Coach

 

Name:

Yoshihiro Akiyama Ph.D., PMP

Current:

Representative Director, Next Process Research Institute Co., Ltd., Lecturer Representative, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Information Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology

Biography

• 1974 - 1979

- Joined IBM Japan, Ltd.,
- Support for financial customers as SE,
- Participate the next system planning and joint research for financial institutions

• 1980-1983,

- Participated in a middleware software product development project at the U.S. Software Development Laboratory.

• 1983-1987

- Engaged in software engineering technology research and technology transfer at the Japan Science Institute (now IBM Tokyo Research Institute), Group Manager

• 1987-2006

- Introducing system development project management standards
- Improving the project management practices

- Part-time lecturer: In charge of subjects such as /OS, distributed systems, database systems, project management, software engineering, etc. at Saitama University, ICU, Dentsu University, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Kyushu Institute of Technology, etc.

• April 1994 to March, 1998

- Professor, Department of Information Engineering and Graduate School of Information Engineering, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Hardware Architecture, OS/Distributed OS, Software Design, Programming, Research Guidance for Graduate and Master's Students

• 1998-2006

- Program Manager, IBM Senior Technical Staff Member, Competency Management, IBM Global Services Asia & Pacific
- PMI PMP Exam Education (In-house)
- IBM Asia& Education and dissemination of project management and process maturity models for Pacific

• 2001-2018

- CMU/SEI Strategic Partner and Software Process Technology Affiliate, - PSP/TSP, CMMI Instructor/Coach/Mentor Coach, Japan, China, Korea, etc. - SCAMPI High Maturity Apleiser, Seminars, Japan, China, Korea, ASEAN, EU, etc.

• October 2006

- Retired from IBM Japan, Ltd.• October 2006 to March 2010

- Professor, ICT Education Center, Institute of Information Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, in charge of the management of a three-year collaboration program with CMU/SEI

- Introduction and implementation of software engineering and process education for graduate education

• Presentation of papers at international conferences:

- IEEE SMC1997 &1998 (UCB L. Zadeh Invitation),
- PMI2000 & 2001,
- ProMAC2004 & 2015,
- IPMA2005, respectively

• Academic activities:

- Journal Editorial Committee,Information Processing Society
- Director of The PM Society Establishment Committee and Research Committee
- Affiliation Society: IEEE, ACM, PM Society, Information Processing Society

• Award Related:

- 2014 PM Society Project Management Distinguished Service Award

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