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Jimmy Samson

Jimmy Samson

Bangalore

Summary

9 years of expert Scrum Master experience in leveraging Agile principles to enhance team efficiency and performance. Proficient in Scrum, coaching, stakeholder collaboration & delivering success as a TEAM. With an overall 19 years in Software development, I now bring my dedication onto building teams who deliver with continuous improvement by inspecting & adapting to satisfy our customers need. Team divides the task & multiplies the Goals.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Pr. Scrum Master

Epsilon
Bangalore
08.2023 - Current

* Drive Agile & Scrum values by training across Epsilon's IT & Non-IT teams.

* Mentoring POs on product backlog readiness, Coaching on user story writing techniques.

* Create and Monitor new KPI's on OPI Indicator & Business Drivers.

* Focused discussions to keep teams aim to the sprint goals.

* Driving quarterly release planning across India & US.

* Foster team efficiency through inspect & adapt and team building

Pr. Sr. Technology Project Manager

Epsilon
Bangalore
06.2022 - 07.2023

* Agile evangelist empowering teams to be self-sufficient.

* Driving KPIs for PO's, leadership team to bring out predictability.

* Coach teams on continuous improvement experiments (Implementing DOR, Deliver sprint work 50% to 80% by 8th day of the team, Dev & QA pairing).

* Onboarded 3 Scrum Masters post interviews.

* Certification in Professional Scrum Product Owner.

* Achieved 4.5 out of 5 in P2A assessments for my 2 product teams

Sr. Technology Project Manager

Epsilon
Bangalore
01.2020 - 05.2021

* Multitasking & coaching three Scrum teams to be self-organized.

* Improve teams performance by reducing wastage in refinement, sprint execution.

* Taking interviews to onboard Scrum Masters.

* Drove cross functional teams to onboard 53 clients migration from C1.0 to C2.0

Technology Project Manager

Epsilon
Bangalore
12.2017 - 12.2019

* Transforming Scrum teams onto Agile, with Scrum framework & emphasizing the importance of DOD.

* Received county head award for my scrum team on delivering C2.0 live within a quarter.

* Building collaboration with PO, Leadership and Stakeholder across the globe.

* Launch Jira project tracking application to suite the product requirements to Development to Production Deployment to manage the Operations.

* Drove quarterly release planning for 2 products teams from Dallas Texas office.

Technical Program Manager

Tesco Bengaluru
Bangalore
01.2017 - 08.2017

* Driving cross functional scrum teams with release engineering team initialize and implement first phase of CI/CD pipeline.

* Lead, mentor & coach teams on Agile culture with 4 scrum teams to deliver successful sprints.

* Adhere to scrum events by adopting Agile ways of working. [Acceptance criteria, DOD, DOSR, Adaptation from Retrospective].

* Improve teams efficiency with by reviewing the KPI's with team and leads.

Scrum Master

Tesco Bengaluru
Bangalore
01.2012 - 12.2016

* A big step to drive Tesco Clubcard & Loyalty program from a waterfall to an Agile software development.

* CSM certification & then a journey to coach scrum teams on Agile culture with Scrum framework.

* Worked with Atlassian team to setup project tracking under Jira.

* Facilitate PO’s on the prioritized product backlog readiness.

* Adhere to scrum events.

* A culture for the team to gain success from inspect & adopt from sprint retro.

Pr. Software Engineer

Tesco HSC Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
01.2009 - 12.2011

* Lead and drive QE team to deliver QA validation and Sign off on the Clubcard applications.

* Come up with Test plan and test suites and share across to the leadership.

* Mentor and coach QA team members.

* Enabled QA team members to take up ownership & accountability to drive QA execution & sign off's.

* Drive bug triage & monitor teams efficiency to be more assertive,

Sr. Software Engineer

Tesco UK
Welwyn Garden City
03.2007 - 12.2008
  • Single handedly drove entire QA life cycle of the product development from north London in Clubcard coupons and vouchers.
  • Creation of test suite, test plans, Triage of bugs with Dev leads.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Information Science

S.B.M.S. Institute Of Technology
Bangalore IN
03-2002

Skills

  • Agile and Scrum framework facilitations
  • Leading by serving the PO's, Dev Team, Leadership & Stakeholder
  • Agile culture enhances teams behavioral changes with growth mindset
  • Conflict Resolution to focus on the sprint goal as a TEAM
  • Team building games to enhance teams Transparency & Communications
  • Drive KPI's for teams to improve & adapt to changes
  • Continuous improvement to improve teams efficiency

Languages

English
First Language

Affiliations

  • Reading and connecting with like minded professionals
  • Build values in scrum teams to deliver sprints as a TEAM
  • Traveling, Trekking, Love music and movies
  • Participate in community of practice for Agile and host Agility Guild for SM's
  • I make sure I take time out to help our society by helping hand to schools, plating trees, cleaning gardens & blood donations camps

Accomplishments

  • 1% Better Every Day - Jan, Mar & Jun 2023/24
  • Work Together to Win together - Mar, Jun, Jul, Sep 2023
  • Country Head award - Aug 2019

Certification

  • PSM I (In prep for the Assessment) - Sep 2024, PSPO I - Nov 2022, SAFe 5.0 Agilist - Dec 2021 & CSM - May 2014

Timeline

Sr. Pr. Scrum Master

Epsilon
08.2023 - Current

Pr. Sr. Technology Project Manager

Epsilon
06.2022 - 07.2023

Sr. Technology Project Manager

Epsilon
01.2020 - 05.2021

Technology Project Manager

Epsilon
12.2017 - 12.2019

Technical Program Manager

Tesco Bengaluru
01.2017 - 08.2017

Scrum Master

Tesco Bengaluru
01.2012 - 12.2016

Pr. Software Engineer

Tesco HSC Pvt Ltd
01.2009 - 12.2011

Sr. Software Engineer

Tesco UK
03.2007 - 12.2008

Bachelor of Science - Information Science

S.B.M.S. Institute Of Technology
Jimmy Samson