1. Kwaku Ampomah – Agile Scrum Master (cert), Agile Product
Owner (cert), Agile Project Manager, Agile Evangelist,
Agile Coach, Agile Consultant, Agile Quality Assurance
Manager, Agile Trainer & Practitioner & Advanced Scrum
Master
E-mail address: kwaku.ampomah@gmail.com – (best way to communicate with me)
Tel: +447538140915
Personal Profile:
• Several years of corporate and governmental experience bringing management, business
teams, technical groups and project sponsors/stakeholders together (both onshore and
offshore)
• An experienced and dynamic Agile; Certified Scrum Master, Product Owner, Coach, Trainer
and Quality Assurance Manager
• Offshore Agile adoption, Distributed team management and training, Cultural training
• An experienced facilitator providing Agile Process Management training and coaching
• Training, Coaching and Mentoring Scrum Development teams, Product Owners, Scrum
Masters, Scrum Practitioners, Technical Leads, Project Managers and Senior Executives
• Reinforcing best Agile practice: Visioning, Backlog creation management and grooming,
writing User Stories, Pre Sprint planning, Sprint Planning, Estimation, Spikes & Research,
Sprint heartbeat, Burndown & Burnup charts/visibility boards, helping teams to identify and
remove impediments, identifying and assessing dependencies, Reviews, Retrospectives,
TDD, Peer review, Testing, Continuous Integration, Show & Tell, Demos, Inspect and Adapt
& Reporting
• Fostering, motivating and supporting teams to self organise, to transition from being good
teams to excellent teams, to become results driven and delivery oriented. I am a great
motivator and servant leader, able to bring the best out of my teams
• Agile Coach; Transformation, Consulting, Engagement and Adoption, Agile process training,
Agile business change, changing hearts and minds, facilitating cultural mindset change
• Product backlog development and grooming, estimating value and cost, Budgeting
maximising ROI, analyzing and transforming requirements into User Stories and then into
features and products, bridging the gap between products, innovation and development
within an Agile framework and environment, translating stories into a product development
and delivery roadmap
• Resource staffing, selection and training, team development, use of Agile games in team
preparation, bonding, learning and continuous improvement
• Engaging senior executives, directors and managers and supporting them to translate/shape
business ideas into business cases with an emphasis on value for money
• Agile Evangelist – designing Agile tools, games and resources

2. Professional Experience:
Dates Client List/Projects
Mar 15 – June 16 Transport for London Online – London Road User Charging
Scrum Master – Agile Transformation
o Responsible for 2 development teams and a Content team
o Recruiting and training development team members
o Training TFL Online team members (including Directors)
o Establishing excellent Agile practice
o Transforming TFL Online into an Agile organisation
o Setting up and maintaining an Agile Centre of Excellence
o Facilitating all Agile Scrum rituals
Dates
Dec 14 – Mar 15 University of East London
Scrum Master
o Responsible for the New Website Sitecore Project
o Creating and training Agile team
o Recruiting team members
o Working closely with deans, directors, managers and
stakeholders
o Recruiting and training development team members
o Facilitating transformation from Waterfall to Agile Scrum
o Establishing quality Agile practice
o Training Product Owners
o Facilitating backlog grooming and estimation sessions
o Facilitating all Agile Scrum rituals from sprint planning,
daily stand ups, to reviews and retrospectives
o Monitoring and reporting on burndown, burnup, bugs, RAG
status etc
o Setting up an Agile Centre of Excellence
o Engaged in deployment planning, release planning, joint
planning sessions, business to consumer release planning
(b2c), financial planning and budgeting meetings
o Managing RAID (Risks Assumptions Issues & Dependencies)
o Using Jira
May 14 – Nov 14 Schneider Electric – Huntingdon & Spain
Consultant Scrum Master
• Working with & managing Agile offshore teams based in
Genoa, Italy and Seville, Spain
• Client is Anglian Water based in Huntingdon, UK
• Working on an Integrated Leakage and Pressure
Management System
• Working closely with directors, managers and stakeholders
• Recruiting and training development team members
• Facilitating transformation from Waterfall to Agile Scrum
• Establishing quality Agile practice
• Training Product Owners
• Facilitating backlog grooming and estimation sessions
• Facilitating all Agile Scrum rituals from sprint planning,
daily stand ups, to reviews and retrospectives
• Monitoring and reporting on burndown, burnup, bugs, RAG
status etc
• Setting up an Agile Centre of Excellence

3. • Engaged in deployment planning, release planning, joint
planning sessions, business to consumer release planning
(b2c), financial planning and budgeting meetings
• Managing RAID (Risks Assumptions Issues & Dependencies)
• Using visual studio 2013 – team foundation server
Nov 13 – May 14 First Clarity – Holborn, London.
Consultant Scrum Master & Agile Project Manager
• Project managing work with 3 major news media projects
based in Ireland, New Zealand and Italy
• Implementing freemium datawall solutions
• Building bespoke CMS systems
• Working in a java environment
• Client facing as project manager and scrum master for in-
house development teams
• Working closely with CEO, business analysts, technical
leads, infrastructure architects and clients
• Requirement gathering, writing user stories and Quality
Assurance
• Project planning & project release planning
• Financial planning, budgeting & commercials
• Nonfunctional test scoping
• Created a repository of Agile Scrum and Kanban information
called Agile Centre of Excellence
• Started and facilitated Agile improvement meetings
• Organising & facilitating daily standups, sprint planning,
backlog grooming, estimation sessions & retrospectives
• Consulting with clients on Agile Scrum process
• Use of Jira to create Agile projects
• Monitoring and reporting on burn down, burn up, bugs, RAG
status etc.
• Managing change requests, dependencies, risks & issues
• Business to consumer release planning (b2c)
Nov 12 – Oct 13 Techno Mobile – Ghana’s Fastest Human
IT Director – Agile Adoption and Delivery
• Introducing Agile project management methodology and
practice to Senior executives and directors
• Working in a Java environment
• Agile adoption, team engagement, executive adoption
• Financial planning, budgeting and preparation
• Training and workshops
• Pre planning, sprint planning, project planning, release
planning,
• Building, mentoring, coaching and training scrum teams
• Backlog & user story creation and development
• Agile quality assurance and testing
• Use of all agile best practices – researching for best tools
and equipment for efficient use in Africa
• Creating and training product owners, scrum masters and
testers, training developers in agile development
(including TDD, peer programming, peer review & Kanban)
• Introducing agile games

4. • Driving financial and architectural collaboration between
business and technical team
• Creating and developing an agile culture and mindset with a
focus on timely delivery and roi
• Using agile games
Apr 12 – Oct 12 AIMIA – Endeavour Loyalty Platform, Strand, London (based at
Piccadilly Circus:
Scrum Master for 4 Agile Java Development Teams –
Working in an Agile transformation J2EE environment and on a
major loyalty management platform.
• Mentoring and supporting head of development, product owners
and technical leads of Agile development teams
• Worked with business analysts, product owners, programme
manager, tech leads, UX & UI teams, quality assurance
manager, development managers, architects, PMO, American
based teams and stakeholders, senior management etc.
• Worked closely with my teams, using agile games, agile scrum
rituals and processes as well as agile engineering practices such
as continuous integration, continuous delivery of tested
software, peer reviews, unit testing, test driven development
and behaviour driven development
• Forming, storming, norming and motivating my teams in various
and creative ways in order to become high performing teams.
• Creating and maintaining scrum boards, Kanban boards and
burn down charts.
• Grooming backlogs, creating user stories with pos bas and tech
leads, facilitating stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives,
playing poker and other games etc.
• Analysing user requirements and the technology required to
meet those.
• Resolving impediments.
• Protecting my teams of testers and developers.
• Coaching team members as a team or on a ‘one to one’ basis.
• Training team members and stakeholders
• Monitoring, measuring and reporting against KPI’s & ROI as well
as contributing to the Agile Centre of Excellence.
• Facilitating off shore teams based in Canada and America
• Planning and budgeting as part of release process
Jan 11 – March 12 Centrica British Gas, Staines, Middlesex – Scrum Master
• Scrum master for a total of 8 ABAP development teams –
working in an Agile transformation environment
• Working in an SAP environment
• Working with and supporting the head of development
• Coaching, mentoring and training scrum teams, scrum masters
and product owners
• Responsible for facilitating the Agile scrum process – daily
stand-ups, sprint heartbeats, pre sprint planning, sprint
planning, developing and grooming product backlog with
product owners, sprint visioning, sprint reviews, demos, show
and tells, maintaining sprint scrum boards, resolving
impediments, 1 to 1 coaching, scrum games, estimating and
sizing user stories, retrospectives, elaboration sessions,

5. acceptance test driven development, continuous integration of
done stories, using Kanban & XP where appropriate and
necessary, as well as continuous delivery of tested software to
the PO
• Using Agile games as a coaching tool
• Facilitating several offshore team members based in India
• Reporting to business stakeholders
• Working with and coaching business analysts, solution
architects, project managers, business managers, product
owners,
• Acting as lead scrum master
• Monitoring, measuring and reporting against KPIs & ROI
• Attending and often facilitating weekly scrum of scrum
meetings
• Initiated scrum masters community of practise (cop)
Feb 10 – Jan 11 KPMG LLP, Tax Technology Group, Blackfriars
QA Manager/Scrum Master/Team Lead / CSPO (Certified Scrum
Master/Product Owner)
• Working in an Agile scrum transformation environment as QA
manager/scrum master
• Scrum master on one team
• Product owner on another team, visioning, creating,
maintaining and grooming backlog
• Set up and coached QA team as well as coaching tax
development team members
• Responsible for product backlog, sprint planning, burn down
charts, scrum stand-ups, retrospectives, writing user stories,
sprint heartbeat, visioning
• Responsible for test planning
• Quality conscience of Agile development team
• Using Microsoft visual studio 2005, 2008, 2010 with visual studio
team system and team foundation server using agile planning
tools, test manager and a microsoft .net framework
• Developing user stories, acceptance tests & test scripts, writing
test strategies, test plans & test cases
• Version control, build release and writing release notes
• Logging, tracking and maintaining bugs
• Use of virtual machines
• Working on tax, accounting and other financial desktop
applications
July 08 – Jan 10 TMW, Sloane Square [Digital Technical Solutions and Database
Design and Management]
Agile QA Manager
• Recruited and set up a QA team (team of testers), coached and
trained team in scrum
• Formulating and implementing QA policies and procedures,
managing a team of testers (including contractors and
permanent staff using an agile approach
• Leading QA discussions, meetings and call conferencing on joint
development projects, working on major global and household
brand name accounts.

6. • Sourcing, purchasing, implementing of QA tools such as
spiratest, web performance suite, dolphin supernova, kewbee
switcher, training QA team and others (colleagues and clients)
on the use of the various test planning tools.
Liaising with directors, department heads, project managers,
business analysts, development team, design team, it
department, finance team and HR – as well as other senior
managers.
• Defect management. change management, build
enhancements, version control, time management, resource
scheduling, staff management/training, project management,
budgeting.
• The projects I worked on include the quality assurance of an
ECRM database development and migration, database interface
integration, TDM lead management, front end and back end
web development and integration, microsites, web based
applications, websites (built with Episerver CMS, Day CMS,
flash, visual studio, html, asp.net and other coding languages),
various email accounts, banners and gifs.
Jan 08 – Jun 08 Ogilvy London, Canary Wharf
[Leading Global Marketing & Advertising Agency]
Agile QA Tester
• Supported product owner to develop backlog and to kick of
sprints, pre sprint planning, visioning, sprint retrospectives
• Coached development team and supported them to work in an
agile framework
• Translating requirements into user stories, creating test
scenarios and test cases from acceptance criteria
• Testing various household brands websites: Flora Becol, Castrol
index – UEFA 2008 performance index tool and website, IBM
microsite, American express – card promotion site, Kodak –
camera promotion site, new Ford Kuga site, BT Tradespace,
Ogilvy website.
• Testing banners, gifs, emails, transparency tests, testing size &
weight, testing image quality.
• Usability and accessibility testing, web testing, web
applications testing, functionality testing, re-testing, web
analytics testing, code testing, acceptance testing, cross
Browser testing, cross system testing, front end to back end
testing.
• Managing test process, recording and signing off tests, meetings
with account managers, project managers, clients, developers,
designers, traffic managers.
Oct 07 - Jan 08 EMAP/WGSN Japan Project
[WGSN is the leading fashion industry e-magazine]
Senior QA Tester/Systems Analyst on Data Migration project and
new Japan Website; Scrumaster in Agile/Scrum development
process. E-Commerce testing
• Coached and trained the whole team in agile methodology and
practise
• Set up scrum board and burn down chart

7. • Trained product owners to develop, maintain and groom
backlog, to write user stories,
• Set up sprint heartbeat and rituals, visioning, pre-sprint
planning, estimating, sprint planning, retrospectives, reviews,
show and tell,
• Defining tests from functional specs, acceptance criteria and
interaction with development, engineering, production and
design teams; writing test plans, test scenarios, test cases and
test steps; defect management.
• Infrastructure mapping using Microsoft visio 2003, use of
digirati, bugzilla and excel to record and manage defects,
system and integration testing, end to end testing (back end to
front end), performance testing using Gomez web performance
monitoring tool (resilience, load, volume, speed), regression
testing, user authentication & security testing.
• testing data migration & translation process (from english to
japanese), business logic testing, testing sales process, testing
user interactivity, testing that all text and images have been
migrated in the right format, testing metadata .
• Web Testing, GUI testing, UAT (organising offshore users in
Japan, UK, Germany, France and America), Cross Browser and
Cross OS tests.
• Testing applications written in Java, HTML, Ajax, RAP,
Usability testing.
Feb 06 – Sep 07 Skinkers Ltd, London
[Award winning and cutting edge New Media software
development] – QA Test Lead/Scrum Master
Working in R&D on cutting edge Peer to Peer Live Broadcast
application; QA Tester on award winning SDA (Skinker Desktop
Agent) & LNP (Live Notification Platform) Projects include BBC,
JCPenney, JP Morgan, The Guardian, Nortel, American Airlines,
Nokia, Financial Times
• i gained experience as an agile scrum master
• Cloud testing including churn rate, stripes and node testing,
reliability testing of p2p live video streaming, simulating
network conditions, testing peer to peer network performance.
• Analysing and interpreting business requirements, project and
technical specifications, architectural designs and other
relevant documentation. working in an agile/scrum
environment and with a close knit qa/test team, attending
production, technical, management, update and scrum
meetings with developers, project managers, company
directors and clients, attending project & sprint planning
meetings; defect management.
• Creating and writing user stories, writing clear, concise but
detailed test plans and scripts and creating test scenarios, using
virtual machines for testing in test lab environment, testing
applications written in c#, java & gml (developed by Skinkers)
and on asp.net & ruby on rails platforms.
• Web testing, slow play/unscripted testing for familiarisation,
smoke testing, confidence testing, corruption testing, fail over
testing – disaster recovery, functional testing, system testing,
performance testing, regression testing, back end to front end
testing, CMS testing, sanity tests, UAT testing , cross

8. browser/os tests with firewalls and anti-virus security
applications, testing on java, html, ajax, ruby on rails.
• Use of tools: Compuware QA centre, accept, rallydev,
selenium, Camtasia studio 4, word 2007, excel 2007, Microsoft
office 2007 & VMware.
Education/Qualifications:
 Certified Scrum Product Owner – Scrum Alliance
 Advanced Scrum Master - Agilify
 CompTIA – Ecommerce – Project Management
 PRINCE 2
 BA Business Admin
 NVQ Computer studies
 Manual Software Testing
 Applied Software Testing
 Association of Certified Chartered Accountants – Professional 1
Interests: Travelling, IT, Arts (Music, Dance, Theatre, Film, Literature, Galleries and
Museums), Sports, Animals and Meeting People
References: Given upon request