Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Timeline
Generic

Samson Showunmi

Takoma Park,MD

Summary

An experienced SAFe Scrum Master with 10 years of experience in managing project frameworks. Fully committed to serving, guiding, and coaching scrum teams toward being self-managed and cross-functional in their efforts to deliver incremental value to stakeholders and customers in a timely manner. Dedicated Scrum professional specialized in leading high-performing and quality-driven teams from product development through successful product launches using Agile

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scrum Master / Agile Project Lead

04.2018 - Current
  • Leading scrum and development teams in self-organization
  • Removing impediments and coaching scrum team on removing impediments
  • Facilitating conflict resolution and issues that occur
  • Helping scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity
  • Supporting product owner and providing education as needed
  • Acting as servant-leader and facilitator to teams in day-to-day operation of their lean-agile practices
  • Empowering the team to self-organize and take collective responsibility for delivering value to the customer through development of high-quality products
  • Building a trusting, safe environment within the team where problems can be raised without fear of blame and retribution
  • Actively facilitating team events (e.g. Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective) and supporting activities such as backlog refinement to ensure that relevant objectives are achieved
  • Promoting effective engagement between the team and its stakeholders, by protecting the integrity of the team's process to enable predictable delivery
  • Helping the team identify coherent and achievable goals in consultation with stakeholders
  • Supporting the team in identifying and addressing impediments to the attainment of goals, including taking action to remove impediments where appropriate
  • Driving sustainable continuous improvement, including collating and deriving data insights
  • Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and making information visible
  • Supporting teams or individuals to improve performance and achieve goals through coaching and mentoring
  • Provide training to impart or reinforce knowledge of Lean-Agile concepts, tools, and practices
  • Provide support with risk management, release management, and facilitate release planning activities maintaining and improving flow of value delivery.

Project Manager

AstraZeneca
06.2013 - 04.2018
  • Deliver assigned program objectives within agreed-upon time, budget, scope, and quality
  • Consistently prioritize tasks and balance multiple, often changing priorities with minimal supervision
  • Managed overall project plan and schedule
  • Maintain open, collaborative, and solution-focused communication with clients and provide periodic updates & progress reports; monitor progress of assigned programs to ensure on-time milestone and budget completion while ensuring high-quality deliverables are provided to the client
  • Able to troubleshoot problems with minimal assistance
  • Consistently seek and promote innovative solutions or approaches to problem-solving in highly flexible and interactive manner as scientific data reveals new information or requirements evolve or change
  • Work collaboratively with other program managers and act as program management resource for all employees
  • Demonstrate ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct authority
  • Ability to foster collaborative partnerships with others; Demonstrates ability to interact with and build relationships at many levels of organization, both internally and externally, to accomplish objectives.

Business Analyst

Children's National
07.2012 - 06.2013
  • Partner with platform Product Manager to drive roadmap prioritization, and identification of product enhancements and new features
  • Work to effectively capture business requirements and help to capture user stories, and support prioritization of backlog and sprint planning
  • Transform stakeholder needs into clear, comprehensive, and concise requirements
  • Provide oversight to ambiguous business problems and recommend visualization solutions that can be easily interpreted by users
  • Oversee acceptable testing, evaluate criteria and results document areas of improvement
  • Provide actionable recommendations for improving the user experience
  • Conduct review sessions to gain approval of requirements and manage change
  • Develop comprehensive plan for eliciting, documenting, and managing requirements in alignment with overall change approach
  • Assess and anticipate user/customer needs, expectations, and pain points
  • Collaborate across teams and customers to implement business transformation projects, providing functional analysis, driving experiments, and contributing input to determine the best solutions

Education

Bachelor of Science - Biology

Bowie State University

Skills

  • Coaching/Mentoring
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
  • Agile Values & Principles
  • Backlog Refinement
  • Strategic & Operations Planning
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Waterfall Methodology
  • Risk Management and Compliance
  • Strong Interpersonal Skills

Certification

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)Project Management Professional (PMP)

Timeline

Scrum Master / Agile Project Lead

04.2018 - Current

Project Manager

AstraZeneca
06.2013 - 04.2018

Business Analyst

Children's National
07.2012 - 06.2013

Bachelor of Science - Biology

Bowie State University

Similar Profiles

CREATE PROFILE
Samson Showunmi