LinkedIn: Si Alhir (Sinan Si Alhir)

Current

Team-&-Enterprise Lean-&-Agile Product-&-Project (Best Practices) Coach and Practitioner at .

Past

Technical Lead & Technical Manager - Software Engineering Specialist & Technical Engagement Manager at IBM Rational Software
Consultant at .

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Si Alhir (Sinan Si Alhir)’s Summary

Sinan Si Alhir (salhir@comcast.net) is a Practitioner. He has over two decades of experience in all aspects of technology product management and development. With a proven performance record in aligning Business and Technology using industry-recognized and organization-tailored Lean, Agile, and other Best Practices, he focuses on transforming organizations/enterprises by cultivating effective Communities of Practices (CoPs). He is commonly categorized as an "Essentialist" and "Resultant" who is measured by “Stickiness”: As a Consultant, he focuses on doing what is Essential for achieving Results where he is measured by the sustainability of his influence. He is "Pragmatic not Dogmatic" and combines an "Appreciative Inquiry" with "Servant Leadership" approach to be an "Appreciative Servant" and "Inquisitive Leader". He is deeply committed to working with individuals, teams, and organizations/enterprises to actualize their potential and achieve an enduring competitive advantage.

He is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Project Management Professional (PMP), IT Project Management Certified Professional (IT Project+), and e-Business Certified Professional (e-Biz+). He is a member of the Agile Alliance, Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN), and Scrum Alliance. He is the author of “UML in a Nutshell" (O’Reilly & Associates), “Guide to Applying the UML” (Springer-Verlag), “Learning UML” (O’Reilly & Associates), and articles on the “Unified Modeling Language (UML)” and “Unified Process (UP)” in the “Encyclopedia of Software Engineering” (John Wiley & Sons) among other publications. He commonly speaks at various professional events (conferences and user groups).

Si Alhir (Sinan Si Alhir)’s Specialties:

--- Focus ---
Product Mgt & Dev
Lean, Agility, Scrum/XP
Continuous Improvement
Governance & Portfolio Mgt.
Prod. & Prog. & Proj. Mgt.
Process/Method. Eng.
Unified Process (RUP/UP)
Architecture
Business Modeling
Requirements Gath./Def./Mgt.
Analysis/Design/Impl./OO/UML

--- BoKs ---
PMI - PMBOK Guide
PDMA - PDMA-BOK
Pragmatic Marketing Framework
SEI - CMMI
SEI - IDEAL Model
IIBA - BA-BOK

--- Technologies ---
Java/J2EE & Dot-Net
Web-Services/SOA
Traditional Technology

Si Alhir (Sinan Si Alhir)’s Experience

Team-&-Enterprise Lean-&-Agile Product-&-Project (Best Practices) Coach and Practitioner

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(Information Technology and Services industry)

2000 — Present (8 years)
Technical Lead & Technical Manager - Software Engineering Specialist & Technical Engagement Manager

IBM Rational Software

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

1998 — 2003 (5 years)
Consultant

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(Information Technology and Services industry)

1990 — 1998 (8 years)