Introduction of Instructor/Coach | （株）ネクストプロセス研究所

Name:

Yoshihiro Akiyama Ph.D., PMP

Current:

Representative Director, Next Process Research Institute Co., Ltd.,
Visiting Professor, Kyushu Institute of Technology

Biography

• 1974 - 1979

- Joined IBM Japan, Ltd.,
- Support for customers in finance industry as SE,
- Participate the next system planning and joint study for finance industry

• 1980-1983,

- Participated in a middleware software product development at IBM in California

• 1983-1987

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

- Learned advanced technology in software engineering WW from L.A. Belady

• 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:

- 1988 recieved IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award
- 2014 received Distinguished Service Award from Society Project Management
- 2017 received 10 Years of SEI Partnership in Improving The State of Software Engineering Worldwide from SEI/CMU, etc.

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