Sam Omolade Csm, Cspo, Pmo, Psm1, Icp-Acc, Icp-Acf Email & Phone Number

Netherlands

A qualified Agile Coach and Scrum Master for the Top Employers Institute, a global authority on recognising excellence in people practices. • Lead development teams through successful Agile transitions, facilitating and embedding the principles and benefits of an Agile methodology framework.• Align resources, proactively removing roadblocks to ensure timely project delivery. • Confidently collaborate with the senior leadership team, aligning transitions with company goals and ambitions. • Produce clear project communication plans for key stakeholders, suppliers, developers, and project teams.• Spearhead the adoption of Agile tools, artifacts, ceremonies, and events; acting as ‘servant-leader’ to enhance team productivity, communication, and autonomy.• Engage in sprint planning, task estimation, sequencing, reviews, and retrospectives.• Eliminate blockers for squads and ensure there is an adherence to Definition of Ready (DOR) and Definition of Done (DOD) criteria.• Assist Product Owners with the coordination of software deployments, ensuring compliance with change control procedures. Including any backlog management, ensuring INVEST criteria were met for all user stories.• Delivered Agile coaching to executives, managers, Scrum Masters and Team Leads, instilling an Agile culture of collaboration across cross functional leadership teams.• Adaptable and technically strong, creating various dashboards in Jira and Power BI using advanced JQL and Filters.• Plan effectively, supporting delivery squads through changes in objectives and re-prioritisation of requirements.• Ensured transparent demonstration of completed projects to stakeholders, conducting UAT and obtaining stakeholder sign-offs.• Used evidence-based and system data from team velocity, burn down, and burn up charts, improving sprint forecast accuracy and communicating to key personnel.

United Kingdom

A highly effective Agile Coach and Scrum Master for Oneweb Limited UK, leading an Agile transition by developing a full understanding of all Agile frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, Lean etc.)• Collaborated with senior leaders, gaining support for all aspects of Agile software development, helping to achieve company goals without creating churn.• Guided delivery teams in the transition to, and adoption of Agile tools, artifacts, and ceremonies. Promoting improved team productivity, communication, and autonomy.• Incorporated and tracked metrics, business objectives, resources, communication agreements, impediments, dependencies, and capacity through the project lifecycle.• Leveraged strong communication skills to help train managers in their applications, providing education on dealing with any cultural shifts caused by the project.• Led the establishment of a Scrum Masters Community of Practices, and introduced a Scrum Team Maturity Assessment Tool, enhancing team performance.• Created a comprehensive Product Owner two-day workshop, covering basic, advanced, and proprietary concepts, leading to a CSPO certification.• Streamlined Agile processes, resulting in accelerated software delivery and increased operational efficiency.

United Kingdom | Germany

A qualified Scrum Master for ETAS, a leading provider of vehicle basic software, middleware, development tools, cloud-based operations services, cybersecurity solutions, and end-to-end engineering and consulting.• Delivered Agile Project Management guidance and coaching, facilitating and embedding the principles and benefits of an Agile development framework.• Confidently chaired daily scrums, sprint planning sessions, sprint reviews, and retrospective meetings.• Mentored the development team in an Agile environment to produce concise User Stories.• Established systems to track and monitor project progression. Prioritising actions appropriately and translating project items into user stories and task lists, contributing to a reduction in project timelines. • Integrated Agile Methodologies, ensuring that product backlog items were prioritised and maintained to assist in self-performance evaluation.• Created and maintained a feedback loop, conducting bi-weekly feedback sessions, increasing team motivation and an improvement in offerings. • Demonstrated a natural ability to conduct engaging training sessions, speaking to large teams and improving the audiences understanding of Scrum theory, practices, rules, and values.• Supported product owners to deliver a strategy and product roadmap, ensuring that Sprints were planned with fully defined user stories. • Continually developed a sound understanding of all business requirements to deliver maximum value, meeting with clients, stakeholders, product owners and developers on a regular basis.

Vilnius, Vilniaus, Lithuania

A highly respected Digital Scrum Master for the European Central Bank.• Facilitated scrum ceremonies including daily stand-up’s, retrospectives, backlog refinements, sprint reviews and planning sessions.• Continuously improved the efficiency of Agile teams, protecting the development team from outside distractions. Identifying and removing challenges that impacted on the progress of sprints or iterations.• Successfully mentored and guided cross-functional teams through the transition from Waterfall to Agile.• Introduced Agile best practices including time-boxing, continuous integration, and reviews.• Led various meetings between teams to create a shared understanding of the requirements and cross team dependencies, yielding a significant reduction in overhead costs.• Developed dynamics to resolve conflict amongst team members.• Ensured standards were adhered to by validating that the testing process had been completed before releasing code.

Bolton, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the delivery and quality assurance of Application Development products/projects across the Trust.• Collated and analysed data, prepared, and presented reports on topics to the relevant forum when required. Prepared a range of documentation, including application specification documents.• Understood the environment and prioritised the most important or highest value tasks.• Identified, assessed, and managed internal and external risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership existed outside the team.• Managed complex internal and external dependencies.• Removed blockers or impediments that affected plans and developed a plan for difficult situations.• Assisted Product Managers in effectively estimating costs, timescales, and resource requirements.• Prepared and maintained Sprint roadmaps with the Product Manager, ensuring all documentation was up to date in order to provide regular and accurate reports.• Maintained delivery momentum. Facilitating the delivery flow of a team, managing the pace and tempo.• Applied available standards, methods, and tools in an intelligent and effective way, and produced a consistently high standard of documentation of both a technical and a descriptive nature ensuring good, structured governance is adopted and followed.• Promoted the Trusts digital strategy encouraging engagement from all levels of the organisation.

United Kingdom

United Kingdom | France

England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Ipswich, United Kingdom

Master Of Science - Ms, Management Practice

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc, Business Information Systems