Samuel Utsu

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About Samuel Utsu

Agile and Project Management Professional with Over 14 years of experience with a specialty in Software Management, design and Implementation of software projects for Financial institutions (Insurance), Aviation (Airbus), Heath management and Education sectors. Over the years, functioning in in different roles: Lead Consultant, Head Customer Services, Project Manager, Agile/Scrum Lead, Product Owner, Scrum Master, RTE, Agile/Scrum Coach, Team Lead, System, Business Analyst, UI/UX Analyst, Data Analyst, Tester. Specialist in designing and launching innovative ERP solutions. Strong passion for innovating, conceptualizing and launching unique, award-winning ERP products solution that deliver on what customers truly want and generate excellent business results and using different Project management methodologies to successfully implement over 26 projects. Experience in providing executive leadership for Program management, Application deployment, Product Strategy, Enterprise Architecture design, R&D as well as strategic use of technology to drive innovation and create new business opportunities. Specialties: • Understanding of different PM/Agile methodologies - waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, SAFe, LEAN • Creating vision, strategy, road-map, and business case for new products • Defining new product concepts • Designing, developing, and quality testing new products • Advocating for the customer and ensuring the product exceeds their expectations • Launching products on time, on scope, and budget • Cloud Architecture • High performance, high availability, global architecture designs for technology solutions • Engineering and innovation • Business Transformation • Project Management • Product Commercialization • Building successful technology teams • Process flow design and implementation and documentation. • Business Presentations, BRD development, SLA Administration, etc. Successfully implemented ERP solutions in over 26 Insurance companies in West and East Africa. Knowledge of Software Engineering design architecture and standards, MySql database, HTML, iobeya, Versionone, Jira PM tools