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SAMUEL NWAGU

Cardiff

Summary

Mission-focused Scrum Master with extensive experience coaching and mentoring highly skilled teams. Bilingual professional with more than 7 years of experience delegating tasks, managing projects and top-notch abilities in organizing workflows, solving complex problems and making accurate decisions based on sound judgment and analytical strengths. Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SAFe Scrum Master/ PRODUCT OWNER

RM RESOURCES
11.2022 - Current
  • Facilitated distributed project team and all aspects of Agile/Scrum development, including daily stand-ups, iteration and release planning, retrospectives, demos, and daily work.
  • Ensured cross-functional coordination between product owners, analysts, developers, and QA occurred early and often and removed barriers and blockers for the team.
  • Support product owners and business analysts with backlog creation and refinement.
  • Track and communicate Agile metrics which may include team velocity and sprint/Program Increment (PI) progress within Scaled Agile (SAFe) framework.
  • Identify and remove impediments.
  • Ensure Scrum Framework is implemented effectively and provides coaching and training at the team level to maximize its benefits.
  • Maintained and published Agile metrics, regularly reporting to business leadership.
  • Adopt positive attitude about Agile processes, ensure tasks are flowing from one phase to the next, facilitate basics of processes (i.e.
  • Transparency, project information is current, impediments are being eliminated).
  • Participate proactively in developing and maintaining standards, tools and best practices.
  • Coached and mentored team members, stakeholders, and leadership on benefits of Agile and Scrum.
  • Responsible for coordinating bi-monthly release of software, including planning and quality assurance.
  • Provided recommendations to Agile Center of Excellence on improving agile processes and practices.
  • Acted as Scrum Master (manager) for multiple distributed sprint teams, resolving impediments, conducting stand-ups, retrospectives, planning sessions, and creating tracking plans such as burn-down charts and burn-up charts.
  • Guided upper level management in Scrum and agile development principles.
  • Assist with internal and external communication to improve transparency.
  • Directly involved in identifying and assessing user needs and documenting business process via user Stories.
  • Acted as administrator for Jira, Confluence, Rally, Version1 and variety of other agile support tools.
  • Assist with making appropriate commitments to deliver business value through story selection, definition of tasks and estimation.
  • Provide support with risk management, release management, and facilitate release planning activities.

Scrum Master

PRAVAS IT SOLUTION Pvt OCT’2018 – JULY’2022
06.2018 - 07.2022
  • Adjusted project plans to account for dynamic targets, staffing changes and operational specifications.
  • Investigated and corrected or escalated project problems.
  • Managed and motivated project teams to promote collaboration and keep members on-task and productive.
  • Helped teams to get activated in agile format by conducting trainings for leadership and teams.
  • Increased readiness of teams, defined roadmap for agile implementation.
  • Guided and coached Scrum Teams and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum/Kanban practices and values to satisfy customer expectations.
  • Led both Scrum and Kanban team to get most out of self-organization.
  • Collaborated with Product Owner on daily stand-up, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospective meetings.
  • Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Standups, Sprint Review & Retrospective.
  • Facilitated daily scrum meetings, sprint grooming, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
  • Resolved several impediments faced by developers by contacting other stake holders.
  • Scheduled Retrospective meetings at the end of sprints and documenting action items to help improve the team.
  • Worked with Product owner On Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Burn down.

Agile Scrum Master

BEESOCIALIZE LTD MAY, 2017 – OCT-2018
05.2017 - 10.2018
  • Tracked complete execution in JIRA – EPIC, Features, user stories, estimation, assignment, progress, impediments, approvals, closure, and retrospectives.
  • Serve as cross-functional point of contact, ensuring transparent collaboration across interdependent teams that resulted in storyboards and release plans that ensured common features within the app.
  • Lead coordination of in-house trainings, project communication to stakeholders, and preparation of end of Sprint team demonstrations to enable knowledge sharing across a project of 150 employees.
  • Participate in retrospectives, Scrum of Scrum meetings, Sprint planning, and ensure project management tools are up to date with team progress for management’s review.
  • Sprint Planning: Ensured that the team was planning in as self-organizing a way as possible; estimation done using planning poker.
  • Daily stand up; Ensured that every team member was updating the team about their tasks as well as voicing questions to the product owner where necessary.
  • Demo (Sprint Review): Formal demo by the team to the product owner/stakeholders who would formally accept stories or reject them; partial acceptance was something I made a point to avoid.
  • Experience with writing queries to customize the Jira board so that the team can have a comfortable way of accessing and retrieving information.
  • Gained strong leadership skills by managing projects from start to finish.

Education

Master of Science - Human Resources Management

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHWALES
Pontypridd, RCT
09.2022

Skills

  • SAFe, Kanban, Scrum
  • Agile coaching & leadership
  • Backlog Refinement
  • Risk management
  • Customer Orientation
  • DevOps, SDLC
  • Global Delivery
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Velocity Management
  • Slack / Microsoft
  • Team Leadership
  • JIRA / ATLASSIAN
  • SLACK
  • SaaS
  • CONFLUENCE
  • OUTLOOK
  • ZOOM
  • TEAM BUILDING
  • LINUX

Certification

SAFe Scaled Agile

CSM Scrum Master

Oracle Certified Associate (OCA)

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)

Oracle Solution Architect Associate

AWS Solution Architect Associate

Security Plus+ ( CompTIA)

Timeline

SAFe Scrum Master/ PRODUCT OWNER

RM RESOURCES
11.2022 - Current

Scrum Master

PRAVAS IT SOLUTION Pvt OCT’2018 – JULY’2022
06.2018 - 07.2022

Agile Scrum Master

BEESOCIALIZE LTD MAY, 2017 – OCT-2018
05.2017 - 10.2018

Master of Science - Human Resources Management

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHWALES

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