Samuel O. Ojo

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Qualification Summary

Experience Scrum Master with years of professional experience combined both as a Scrum Master and a Business Analyst in Agile and Traditional project management environments. During these years, I have gained an excellent understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, and KanBan), analyzing and documenting of KPIs, Functional Specifications, Business Process Flow, Business Process Mapping and Re-Engineering, New Systems Design and Legacy System Enhancement. In the cause of my career, I have used my Servant Leadership skills in establishing and supporting an effective team environment, identifying and clearing impediments, encouraging a good work relationship, addressing team dynamics, and more.

Domain Expertise

Banking

Insurance

Health

Information Technology

Retail

Core Competencies

Agile Methodologies

Business Analysis

Critical Thinking

Conflict Resolution Management.

Technical Skills

Communication Skills

Working Skills

Active Listener, open-minded, and objective

Effective communication

Influential Leadership – multidimensional

Collaborative and inclusive

Adaptive to change

Active Orientation

Problem-solving and mentoring

Application Lifecycle Management Tools (ALM) Skills

JIRA, TFS, Rally, Version 1, HP Quality Center, and MS Office.

Professional Experience

Spectrum Columbus, Ohio Sept 2016 – Present

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Facilitate Scrum ceremonies (events and activities) and ensure the team is realizing value from them (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Retrospective, and Backlog Refinement).

Helping teams apply the Scrum Framework, agile principles, and values.

Utilize servant leadership approach in leading.

Facilitating the team’s working agreement meeting.

Coach the Product Owner and Development Team in effective Product Backlog Refinement, the definition of done, ready and more.

Encourage team continuous improvement via interactions, practices, and process (Team Pairing).

Encourage Team members to self-organize, cross-functionalize, identify risk, manage dependencies, and resolve the conflict.

Work with the Product Owner and Development Team to ensure the transparency of team artifacts, including the Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and Product increment.

Coach management and other stakeholders within the organization on Agile practices.

Help the team learn to identify dependencies, skill/knowledge gaps, and other impediments for their work.

Remove impediments that are preventing the team from accomplishing their goals.

Provide leadership cross-program on Agile and Lean methodologies.

Helps the Team to focus on delivery of high-quality stories.

Assist in the Release Management Process on sprint closure (Production Environment).

Facilitates alignment and assists Product Owner and Development team with making appropriate commitments.

Work with product managers and the development team to establish release management (monthly and conditional release), ensure common priorities Tracks and communicates agile metrics (such as team velocity and sprint progress/burndown chart) to the team, management, and any impacted stakeholders.

Prepare for Product Development Meetings to keep meetings focused.

First Bank of Nigeria Limited – Lagos, Nigeria Dec 2013 – August 2016

Scrum Master / Agilist

Responsibilities:

Conducted scrum ceremonies such as Daily Standup, Estimation Sessions, Demos, Retrospective, and more.

Lead and oversee the assigned sprint team and guide them in Agile methodologies.

Attend Scrum of Scrum forum and discuss progress, impediments, and dependencies.

Operates as a team-based servant leader in service to the team's needs.

Support and Coach Product Owner in backlog management (Refinement and Sizing)

Identify, remove and escalate risks, roadblocks, and cross-team dependencies

Accountable for promoting continuous improvement by coaching the team to use metrics in identifying and measuring progress.

Leads other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization and cross-scrum collaboration on delivery execution.

Coaches and mentors’ others in developing Scrum Master best practices.

Continuously learn new approaches in facilitating agile best practices and how to improve team dynamics.

Assisting with internal and external communication with transparency.

Support/educate the Development team in continuous improvement and Scrum Maturity.

Identify training needs, create training plan & materials, and conduct training for the team, peers and the larger group on Agile principles.

Gathered and documented business and technical requirements from both formal and informal sessions and validate the needs of the business stakeholders.

Conducted user interviews and documented business and functional requirements.

Performed Requirement Analysis and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams using Visio.

Created use case scenarios and documented workflow and business process using Rational Rose.

Performs management analysis, definition, design, development, and implementation of business services and products.

Create Requirement Traceability matrix to confirm all requirements are traceable throughout the project.

Managed all the requirements in RequisitePro, making requirements available to all team members.

Ensure test planning and resources are in place to provide quality testing.

Act as a point of contact for all testing deliverables and provides clarifications to testing requirements.

Eco-Bank Transnational Incorporated– Lagos, Nigeria Feb 2011 – Nov 2013

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Worked as part of the BA team in eliciting requirement, define and document business requirements (BRD), developed Functional Requirements document (FRD) and analyzed them using Rational Requisite Pro and Visio.

Prepared and analyzed AS IS and TO BE in the existing process and performed Gap Analysis.

Facilitated (JAD) Joint Application Development sessions with the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from various business area to identify the business rules and requirements and then documented them into a good format that can be reviewed and understood by both business and technical people.

Implemented the entire RUP Methodology of application development with its various workflows, artifacts, and activities.

Acted as a liaison between business users and system development team during the development process.

Implemented a suitable Change Management process and supported the existing banking solution upgrade by coordinating multiple projects.

Gained a thorough understanding of Cash Management, Liquidity Positions, and Liquidity Ratios. Internet Banking applications, customer accounts, customer registration, and customer information management. KYC requirements and compliance.

Worked with the Quality Assurance team to create Test Plan and Test Cases and conduct unit, integration, and system testing.

Create test scripts and execute test scripts.

Assisted QA lead in developing quality procedures and ensuring that appropriate documentation is in place.

Facilitated and conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and test strategies with developers and testers and performed manual front-end testing to check all functionalities of a different module.

Participated in developing of Training Materials for the new technology and User Training.

First City Monument Bank– Lagos, Nigeria Oct 2007 – Jan 2011

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

Assisted in the review, analysis, and creating of detailed technical documentation of business systems and user needs

Determined user/business/functional requirements. Created vision, scope, and use case documents; business process models, use case diagrams and activity diagrams.

Utilized RUP to configure and develop process, standards, and procedures.

Performed GAP and Risk analysis of the existing system and evaluated the benefits of the new system.

Validated technical designs created by IT developers against functional specifications.

Worked with QA team to design test plan and test cases for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Coordinated work plans between the project manager and client using MS Project.

Created documentation for training and Help Desk teams.

Conducted Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to gather requirements and allow different stakeholders to communicate with each other, resolve problems at an early stage.

Designed Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Data Flow Diagrams to define the Business Process using Visio and Enterprise Architect.

Analyzed the Data Entity Relationships and worked on Functional Requirements Document (FRD).

Followed solely Agile methodologies during the project.

Coordinated with the test team to check the Weekly Status and Report it to the Project Manager.

Responsible for Interacting with the Developers to explain the proposed changes and ensure understanding of the system requirements to handle these changes.

Working extensively with the QA team for designing Test Plans and Test Cases for the UAT.

Involving in developing user manuals, technical and job definition documents using MS Word.

Assisting in ensuring project deliverables are implemented on-time, on-budget, aligned to best practices, based on a standardized approach with the support of peer reviews.

Conducting review meetings with the development and testing teams to make sure that the functionality of the application meets the expected results while in-sync with the requirements and inception stage developed business process models.

Profound knowledge of data websites and applications.

Education

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Scrum Developer Certified (SDC)

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Franklin University Columbus Ohio USA – Ross College of Business

Higher National Diploma (HND), Lagos City Polytechnic. Lagos- Nigeria

National Diploma (ND), Yaba College of Technology. Lagos- Nigeria

Diploma – Office Information Management, DPSS Computer Training Center. Lagos- Nigeria

Academic Honors/Awards

Distinction Student of DPSS Computer Training Center (December 2004).

Member Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (Since 2008).

Award Winner “1902 Leadership Scholarship” Fall 2017 Franklin University Columbus, Ohio.

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