Jira
Samson Itunu
PROJECT MANAGER/SCRUM MASTER
Fayetteville,NC
Summary
Resourceful PMP and a Certified Scrum Master with hands-on experience in services and Project delivery towards continuous improvement. Successful at building and maintaining open communication between team members, clients, stakeholders and leadership. Experience serving as a scrum master for multiple teams simultaneously. Proficient understanding of the project life cycle and the software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies. Seasoned in establishing an agile mindset and implement agile practices for high-quality outcomes. Proficient in requirement gathering, grooming, sprint, development and testing to meet business needs and expectation.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
9
9
Certifications
Work History
Project Manager / ScrumMaster
MSKTech Solutions, LLC
Jersey City, NJ
02.2019 - Current
- Plan agile best practices as well as identify, track, and remove impediments to overcome development roadblocks
- Negotiate, influence, and collaborate to build successful relationship amongst teams
- Facilitates, coordinates and manage scrum of scrums events
- Developed communication plan and provided support to project teams
- Define acceptable metrics to help track progress of agile development teams which has led to increase in delivery from 60% to 86%
- Coach, mentor, and provides guidance to scrum team for enhancing service delivery and continuous improvement
- Coordinate cross-functional communication between team, product owner, and Release Train Engineer
- Monitor and control projects progress, evaluate performance and sets deadline
- Plan and develop schedules and activities
- Established cross functional collaborative environment that is creative,trustworthy, focus thereby increasing motivation amongst teams
- Facilitates and coordinates sprint planning, PL , daily standup meeting, sprint reviews E.T.C
- Organized agile and scrum practices & values and ensure compliance with company development, standards, and policies.
Logistics and Supply Specialist
US Army Quartermaster School
Fort Lee, NJ
04.2019 - Current
- 92Y)
- Receive, inspect, inventory, load/unload, store, issue and deliver supplies and equipment worth over $100M
- Maintain automated supply system for accounting of organizational and installation supplies and equipment
- Issue and receive small arms
- Secure and control weapons and ammunition in security areas and schedule
- Performs preventive and organizational maintenance on weapons.
Project Manager / ScrumMaster
Logical Point Technology
Piscataway, NJ
02.2018 - 02.2019
- Focused on guiding teams towards improving their way of working
- Identified, developed, and gathered resources needed to complete project
- Conducted meetings and prepared reports to communicate project status to leadership and stakeholders, both business and IT staffs to meet project target
- Educated and trained team members on Agile foundations, values, and principles
- Ensured development team works in accordance with agile practice and principle
- Facilitated Scrum-of- Scrums among scrum projects team towards quality delivery
- Worked closely with stakeholders and define responsibilities
- Coached product owners in backlog management which increases team productivity from 60% to 90%
- Successfully determined gaps in team and department performance
- Developed improvement plan and practice to ensure continuous productivity and improvement
- Monitored project progress and team performances against project plan and take action to resolve conflicts and minimize delays
- Facilitated daily stand-ups, retrospective, sprint review meetings.
ScrumMaster
Integer Telecom
Denver, CO
07.2017 - 02.2018
- Facilitated definition of project scope, goal, requirements, and deliverables,
- Drove cross team planning, collaboration, and coordination
- Drove delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity
- Provided regular and open communication to stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments
- Helped establish governance structure where decision-making is weighted toward empowered teams
- Ensured that teams/program are well managed in delivery controls/compliance to minimize operational/reputational risk
- Ensured business and technical leaders maintain and communicate product vision and roadmaps
- Partnered with technical leaders and others to support program/organization’s automation (testing, pipelines, deployments)/DevOps journey
- Facilitated data updates and communicate impacts to key performers and stakeholders
- Reviewed and track project team deliverables on Tableau, Jira, OKR
Project Manager
Confiance Networks, Tanzania
Dar Es Salam, Tanzania
08.2012 - 04.2017
- Planned and developed schedules and activities
- Managed and controlled project budget, projections, expenses, revenue, project planning, and project execution
- Planned, analyzed, and managed various projects to meet project goals and objectives by setting realistic timelines and effective project execution within assigned budget
- Developed processes and procedures to enhance effectiveness of operations and team productivity
- Evaluated supplier quality to ensure compliance with project specification and provided recommendations for improving quality and reducing cost
- Maintained detailed project documentation including meeting minutes, action items, issues lists and risk management plans
Education
Certificate - Basic Leadership Course
USARMY
Puerto Rico 05.2020 - 07.2020
Certificate - Essential Management Skills For Emerging Leaders
Professional Development-Harvard Div of Continuing
Harvard, MA 01.2017 - 05.2017
B.Sc - Accounting and Finance
LAUTECH
Oyo Nigeria 03.2005 - 07.2009
Skills
Lean manufacturing and design
undefinedCertification
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Additional Information
- Security Clearance , Active Secret Clearance
Affiliations
- Project Management Institute
Software
Confluence
MS Project
AWS
SQL
Release Management tool
MS office
Jenkins
Timeline
Certificate - Basic Leadership Course
USARMY
05.2020 - 07.2020
Logistics and Supply Specialist
US Army Quartermaster School
04.2019 - Current
Project Manager / ScrumMaster
MSKTech Solutions, LLC
02.2019 - Current
Project Manager / ScrumMaster
Logical Point Technology
02.2018 - 02.2019
ScrumMaster
Integer Telecom
07.2017 - 02.2018
Certificate - Essential Management Skills For Emerging Leaders
Professional Development-Harvard Div of Continuing
01.2017 - 05.2017
Project Manager
Confiance Networks, Tanzania
08.2012 - 04.2017
B.Sc - Accounting and Finance
LAUTECH
03.2005 - 07.2009
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