Samuel O. Asante

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Samuel is an accomplished and energetic Development Management Officer/ Agile and Scrum Master Administrator with a proven history of achievement in monitoring and evaluation. He is a motivated leader with strong organizational and project prioritization skills. His areas of expertise include; Coordinated and facilitated Product Planning, Daily Stand-up, forecasting, budgeting, and cost analysis. Samuel’s time at World Bank and Dedor company LT mirrored the duties and responsibilities required for a successful Scrum Master.

SKILLS

PMP, Agile, Scrum, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, SQL, SPSS, Tableau, STATA, SYNTEX

EXPERIENCE

Dedor Company Limited United Kingdom. 1/2022 – Present

Scrum Master officer

Mentored and coached the team.

Ensured all the agreed events are performed throughout the delivery cycle.

Coordinated and facilitated iterations/release planning meetings, daily stands-up, reviews, retrospectives and demos.

Coordinated and facilitated Product Planning, Story Mapping, iteration/release planning meetings, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives and demos.

Provided regular insights through metrics, charts, and status reports

Assisted the Scrum team by removing impediments to meet the committed objectives.

Fostered and coached the team for adoption of Agile tools and practices.

Established and tracked productivity and efficiency metrics for the productive team.

Engaged with Product Owner for Refinement of the User Stories

Assessed the Agile Maturity of the team and organization and mentoring the team to higher levels of maturity.

Proactively planned, identified and resolved any potential issues which impacted the schedule for the Agile Team.

Established, tracked and published all the required metric on time.

Mentored the team as required to ensure Agile Principles are adhered to.

Engaged with Product Owner for Refinement of the User Stories and Maintaining the Product Backlog.

Allocated Agile Team resources and coordinating their work and resolving change induced incidents.

Worked closely with Service Managers in maintaining the production stability.

Worked closely with Service Owners in updating business stakeholders regarding the status of the incidents affecting production stability.

Milestones Achieved:

Successfully delivery of Dynamics skill development Project.

Successfully management of Issues and risks.

Burvanz Contraction LT 2020 – 2022

Project Administrator

Making sure to stay within the project budget.

Performs research needed to support project activities of the company.

Tracking task to ensure that deadlines are met.

Tracking of the implementation sheet of the project to help determine both internal and external solution.

Making sure that all documents are properly organized and kept.

Making sure day-to-day activities of the various departments are in good standing for proper reporting to management.

Making forecasting of cost of materials for the company.

Participating in the administration of project and program contract activities and preparing for internal and external meetings.

Fidelity Information Service at FIS- Global UK 12/2017 – 1/2019

Technical Support

Technical support for clients and customers.

Working on machine to fix them.

Inbound and outbound calls.

Working with targets and KPI’s.

Answering calls and taking customers through the process of fixing their handset with respect to network problems.

Taking clients through the process of getting their handset updated with FIS latest software.

Effectively dealing with customer and client complaints.

Reporting issues to management.

World Bank /Cotvet 2013 – 2017

Project Support Unit - Monitoring and Evaluation Officer

Supervise the GSTDP Annual data collection across the country.

Managing and coordinating Baseline data collection of grantees for the unit.

Managing and assisting in the analysis of data (i.e., using SQL, MS Excel sheet, SPSS, Tableau, STATA, and SYNTEX) and the importance of report packages for internal and external audiences.

Managing coding and data entry of the unit by ensuring quality of analyses and documentation.

Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning for the unit.

Development of instruments for the unit and Participate and support initial development pilots during the initial phases of the project.

Managing and organizing outreach program for the skill development project.

Creating, reviewing of report and presenting program document including activity matrix from the field to meet standard of the world bank, AFDB, GIZ and DANIDA

Tracking of the implementation sheet of the Skill Development Fund.

Scheduling monitors to visiting the beneficiaries base on the Activity Matrix of the beneficiary.

Assist in the spot check monitoring of the World Bank, GIZ, AFDB and DANIDA project implementation across the country.

Manage the unit monthly monitoring and reporting for the Geo-Spatial Technology, a sub project implemented by the Geography Department of the University of Ghana (Legon)..

Assist in filing of documents for the unit.

Ecobank Ghana 2011 – 2012

Assistant

Assist in the publicity of the Banks branch in Temale.

Assist in the registration of new customers for the Bank.

Assist in the day-to-day activities of the Bank including filing of documents and helping customers within the banking hall.

Radio Grin: UDS campus station 2009 – 2012

MC / Presenter

Presenter for the morning shows (Anchoring with fellow panelists on prevailing economic, political and social issues of interest within campus and country at large).

MC for most of the University programs.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

University of Birmingham - MSC Development Management (Aid Management) – 2017 - 2018

Development Management

LM Aid Policy and Politics

Making Policy

NGO in Changing International Context

LM Rural Poverty and Development

Development Politics

University for Development Studies (UDS) - BSC Renewable – 2009 - 2012

Natural Resource (Forestry Option with Economic)

Ghana National College - WAEC-SHS – 2005 - 2008

St Anthony’s Preparatory School - BECE – 2001 - 2005

Data Analyst (Masters Program) - Ongoing (Simple Learn) – 2022

PMP Certified - Certified (Simple learn) – 2022

Agile /Scrum master Certified - Certified (Scrum Alliance) – 2022

Computer School (IPM) – MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint – 2008

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

Treasure for International Development society University of Birmingham (2017/2018)

NUGS President UDS (2012/2013)

Representative of RNR in General Assembly of SRC (LEVEL 100 AND 200)

Deputy Majority Leader; UDS Youth Parliament (2011 - 2012)

Group Secretary; TTFPP GROUP 273 (2009 - 2011)

Secretary GHAMSU (2012 - 2013)

Organizer ESAFEED Hostel (2011 - 2012)

Member of the Entertainment Committee (SHS 2007 /2008)

Assistant Mandela House Prefect (2004 - 2005)

Scripture Union Vice President (JHS 2004 - 2005)

SEMINARS/WORKSHOP ATTENDED

Safeguard Policy Workshop by African Development Bank

Data system Management (SPSS AND SYNTEX) by Legon Analytics

Workshop on Environmental Impact Assessment by the World Bank

Career Development Seminar by Springboard

Workshop on the overview of Ghana Skill and Technology Development project (GSTDP)

Workshop on the overview of African Funded Development project (AFDB)

Leadership Training

Promoting Excellence through Innovation and Technology Seminar

Outreach Seminar Organized by Renewable Natural Resource Students Association

Seminar on the Effects of Global Warming on the Environment

Seminar on Proposal Writing

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