PIERA (Shanghai) Software Management Consulting Co., Ltd.
Room 501, 309 Yuyuan Road, Shanghai, China 200040
Website: http://www.piera.com.cn/
As the subsidiary of PI-21 in China, PIERA Consulting provides comprehensive, cost effective, and integrated appraisal, training, and consulting services in the area of business process improvement and process management tool support. Our expert staff includes SEI certified Lead Appraisers and Instructors with practical knowledge and expertise in improving the processes by which companies build product in the real world. Our professionals have long-term experiences in software development, program management and process improvement while working in fortune 500 system integration and software development corporations, and have successfully provided system integration services and mission critical solutions to government, airline companies, domestic and international banks, large-scale enterprises, etc.
Played leadership role in the internal process improvement of a world-class offshore software development firm and helped the company largely improved its productivity and quality, all our China local staffs have hands-on experiences in process improvement, and are familiar with process improvement methodology and offshore software development environment. Our experts also have successfully helped various organizations of local and offshore companies with their process improvement program to achieve the improvement target based on SW-CMM, CMMI and ISO 9000.
Our services include customized process and procedure development, process management tools integration and support, training, appraisals, and consulting services. We are transition partners with organizations focused on improving their processes to enhance product quality, customer satisfaction, and, ultimately, their profitability.
Sam Yao, General Manager, has over eighteen years experience in software development industry including education, system / software development, embedded system development, mission-critical application development, system integration, software development management, and process improvement. He has extensive experience in consulting, project management and process improvement.
As head of SEPG and SQA in an offshore software development center in Shanghai, he led process improvement program in setting up the strategies, establishing the process improvement infrastructure, building and enhancing software development & management process, developing and improving the metrics program, and conducting the appraisals, etc. Under his leadership, the company has achieved CMM Level 3 compliant operation. He also managed various large-scaled and complex projects / programs in leading international system integration companies in banking and transportation sectors. He led the effort in establishing rigorous project management methodology and system engineering practices, thus enabled the software development and implementation in cost-effective, efficient way with high quality. He is a certified project management professional by Brainbench.
Contact information:
Voice: (86-21) 6249-3276 Fax: (86-21) 6249-3893 Email: sam_yao@piera.com.cn
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