Sam Abdulai
Summary
A highly professional Scrum Master with extensive experience in delivering software development projects within time, cost and budget. Expert knowledge of the Scrum methodology and Agile frameworks with the ability to drive to create and manage self sufficient and self sustaining teams. Capable of brining enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgement to the remove impediments and ensure teams are focused on delivering success and value in evolving and dynamic project environments.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
50
50
Over 50 successful projects delivered
3
3
Certification
Work history
Delivery Manager/ Scrum master
Ministry of Justice
Birmingham
11.2021 - Current
- Oversaw entire lifecycle of large-scale, complex projects.
- Supported and assisted product feature launches and marketing campaigns.
- Developed rollout and release plans for both new applications and upgrades to existing systems.
- Drove process improvements and optimised efficiencies.
- Guided several Scrum Teams through the transition from Waterfall to Agile-Scrum delivery.
- Implemented training and development initiatives for Scrum Teams in Agile Frameworks, Self Organization, Cross-Functionality, Roles and Responsibilities, Empiricism, and Value of the Definition of Done, supporting the organisation's strategic objectives in the professional development of scrum teams, whilst strengthening Scrum Teams.
- Tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials, preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders, coordinating sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups, resolving conflicts and remove obstacles that occur, acting as point of contact for external communications, steering various agile projects via Azure DevOps and JIRA.
- Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes, monitoring progress and performance and helping teams to make improvements, planning and organising demos and product/system testing, ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the Scrum Team.
Delivery Manager/ Scrum Master
Jaguar Land Rover
Coventry
07.2018 - 11.2021
- Restructured several workstream backlogs and optimised the delivery framework leading to better visibility, prioritisation and improvement of delivery outcomes and throughput of Scrum Teams.
- Successfully administered Scrum processes, coached team members and clients on Agile processes.
- Created project timelines and implementation plans to complement broader change projects.
- Identified factors slowing or stopping programme delivery and proactively work to mitigate impact.
- Identified opportunities to align products with UK business strategy, working with relevant stakeholders to influence delivery.
- Oversaw project finances, allocating resources and managing client invoices.
- Coordinated all Scrum ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Product Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives.
- Maintained the backlog and release plans, publishing reports to ensure key stakeholders are updated of progress.
- Monitored and troubleshooted incoming Production support tickets based on Business priorities and to within defined SLAs.
- Identify areas of improvement for the Delivery Team and enabled them to implement planned change.
- Supporting the team in turning the product backlog into working functionality, promoting Agile values / practices and removing impediments appropriately.
- Ensure transparency in the Management of project risks and issues and communicate effectively to internal and external stakeholders.
Senior Business Analyst
Studio
Blackburn, Blackburn with Darwen
10.2017 - 06.2018
- Documented and traced project lifecycle to meet objectives.
- Conducted evaluations to gauge performance and productivity of project teams.
- Maximised project ROI, performing user acceptance testing (UAT) to validate user requirements and expectation.
- Gathering, validating and documenting various systems, processes and business needs
- Supported PM to work closely with Audit and Governance team to review regulatory Compliance.
- Collaborated with Teams and Stakeholders across the UK and Ireland to improve Operational Processes.
- Collaborated with suppliers on outsourced services, working with key SME to ensure completeness.
- Used Lean methodologies to re-engineer processes and increase overall productivity.
Business Analyst
Nationwide Building Society
05.2016 - 08.2017
- Identified and management of stakeholders, who are at various level within the organisation.
- Managed the process of establishing the Business requirements for new Systems or enhancing existing Systems and proposing efficient Technical and Commercial solutions to satisfy these requirements.
- Documented High Level Business Requirements, Detailed Business Requirements, IT Requirements, Business/Operational Readiness Documents, System Training Guide Documents,Policy Documents etc
- Reviewed Nationwide Mortgage processes and procedures, including online Customer Journeys to identify gaps and improvements required.
- Participated in analysis sessions, shaping design and solution decisions so that the end product fully satisfies user requirements, whilst avoiding scope and requirements creep
Education
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
University of Bolton
Bolton 10.2006 - 07.2010
Skills
- Cloud technologies
- Microsoft Teams
- Conflict resolution
- Organisational skills
- Time management Skills
- Change Management
- Requirement Gathering
- Process Improvement
- Visio and Process Mapping
- Workshop Delivery
- Stakeholder Management
- Strong Knowledge of Scrum and Agile
Languages
English
Fluent
Certification
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM II) -In view (August 2023)
- Professional Scrum Master(PSM I), Scrum.Org
- Lean Six Sigma, White Belt.
- BCS Foundation in Business Analysis
Timeline
Delivery Manager/ Scrum master
Ministry of Justice
11.2021 - Current
Delivery Manager/ Scrum Master
Jaguar Land Rover
07.2018 - 11.2021
Senior Business Analyst
Studio
10.2017 - 06.2018
Business Analyst
Nationwide Building Society
05.2016 - 08.2017
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
University of Bolton
10.2006 - 07.2010
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