CHIDUBEM OFILI
Fairfax,Virginia
Summary
Certified Scrum Master with over a decade of experience driving Agile delivery, coaching cross-functional teams, and improving software development performance across financial services, healthcare, analytics, and technology environments. Proven success in removing impediments, optimizing flow, strengthening team collaboration, and accelerating delivery through data-driven coaching. Adept in Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Jira, Azure DevOps, and Agile metrics. Recognized for reducing cycle time, increasing throughput, enhancing stakeholder alignment, and delivering high-quality digital products on time and within scope.
Overview
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Certification
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years of professional experience
Work History
Scrum Master
Telus Digital
Las Vegas, NV
07.2025 - Current
- Enhanced sprint velocity by refining discipline, enforcing ready criteria, and accelerating blocker removal through structured tracking.
- Increased release cycle predictability to 90%+ committed-scope delivery per sprint using stable velocity forecasting models and capacity-based sprint planning.
- Helped reduce cycle time from multi-week delivery to near-continuous deployment, contributing significantly towards faster feature rollout to end users across digital channels.
- Boosted sprint throughput by 20–35% through backlog streamlining, improved flow efficiency, and alignment of cross-functional dependencies involving application, API, and SQL/NoSQL database teams.
- Strengthened Agile maturity across SQL and NoSQL squads, enhancing team engagement and ceremony participation scores in quarterly retrospectives.
- Increased onboarding efficiency by creating reusable Agile playbooks, reducing new-joiner ramp-up time and accelerating time-to-contribution in first two sprints.
- Enhanced stakeholder visibility with dashboards and burndown analytics, contributing to reduction in unplanned scope churn and expediting decision cycles across product groups.
- Enhanced psychological safety and experimentation. Implemented working agreements and inspection cycles to boost team engagement and accountability.
- Supported stable production releases, helping maintain 95-98% on-time delivery rate while minimizing rollbacks and post-deployment defects.
Project Manager / Scrum Master
Washington University of Science and Technology
01.2024 - 06.2025
- Led a school-wide project to enhance technology testing and website usability through Agile methodologies.
- Led the planning and execution of a school-wide project to create a hands-on technology testing environment and redesign the official student website for improved usability and modern presentation.
- Defined project requirements and scope with stakeholders, including students, teachers, IT staff, ensuring alignment with user needs and resource availability.
- Built project timelines, resource plans, and work breakdown structures that allowed team members to track deliverables clearly and meet major milestones.
- Facilitated Agile ceremonies for student team developing practical technology testing lab and modernized school website, including sprint planning, stand-ups, backlog grooming, retrospectives.
- Acted as a servant leader by removing blockers, encouraging collaborative problem-solving, and ensuring team members had clear priorities and support for task completion.
- Coordinated collaboration across design, development, testing workstreams, ensuring effective communication and timely resolution of conflicts or bottlenecks.
Scrum Master
First City Monument Bank
09.2022 - 03.2023
- Managed distributed cross-functional team of 10 across 3 countries, facilitating product development and data analysis.
- Oversaw investment portfolio using Agile/Scrum principles, aligning strategic investment objectives with prioritized initiatives and actionable roadmaps.
- Oversaw the company’s investment portfolio using Agile/Scrum principles, translating strategic investment objectives into prioritized initiatives, measurable KPIs, and actionable portfolio-company roadmaps.
- Improved project delivery timelines by 20% through Agile process optimization.
- Developed and executed venture-building strategies for portfolio companies, translating strategic priorities into iterative workstreams and tracking delivery against milestones.Served as Scrum Master for two simultaneous teams, ensuring KYC/AML requirements were integrated into product delivery.
- Identified and evaluated potential investments through market research, competitive analysis, due diligence, financial modeling, business-model assessment, and financial projections, supporting investment committee decisions.
Agile Coach
Informed Analytics Limited
02.2019 - 09.2022
- Facilitated cross-functional collaboration between investment teams, founders, portfolio executives, and external stakeholders, using Agile ceremonies and structured communication to improve accountability and execution.
- Analyzed shareholder and board-level discussions and converted strategic decisions into prioritized action items, ownership structures, timelines, and measurable deliverables for portfolio companies.
- Led ESG and corporate governance improvement initiatives across the portfolio, establishing measurable objectives and tracking implementation through iterative reviews and continuous-improvement cycles.
- Sourced and developed strategic relationships with international organizations, development agencies, business angels, and other investment ecosystem partners, supporting deal sourcing, co-investment, and portfolio growth opportunities.
- Developed and delivered onboarding programs on Agile fundamentals, planning poker, story writing, and iterative delivery to enhance team understanding and accelerate adoption.
- Conducted financial and operational analysis of start-ups during due diligence, identifying key investment risks, growth opportunities, dependencies, and performance drivers and translating findings into actionable recommendations.
- Collaborated with platform team of Agile coaches to align practices and share insights, driving continuous improvement in delivery frameworks.
- Facilitated ceremonies, retrospectives, working agreements, and experimentation sessions to foster team collaboration and enhance performance.
- Removed impediments across multiple analytics engineering teams, improving throughput and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Ensured backlog health through weekly grooming, readiness checks, and close collaboration with Product Owners.
- Developed and delivered onboarding/training programs on Agile fundamentals, planning poker, story writing, and iterative delivery.
Scrum Master - Investment Products
Niche Capital Limited
03.2017 - 01.2019
- Oversaw the company’s investment portfolio using Agile/Scrum principles, translating strategic investment objectives into prioritized initiatives, measurable KPIs, and actionable portfolio-company roadmaps.
- Led sprint planning, backlog prioritization, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives for portfolio value-creation initiatives, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders and removing execution blockers.
- Identified and evaluated potential investments through market research, competitive analysis, due diligence, financial modeling, business-model assessment, and financial projections, supporting investment committee decisions.
- Developed and executed venture-building and value-creation strategies for portfolio companies, breaking strategic priorities into iterative workstreams and monitoring delivery against agreed milestones and performance targets.
- Managed project budgets, resources, and roadmaps to enhance delivery of strategic investment and lending solutions.
- Managed project budgets, resources, and roadmaps to support strategic investment and lending solutions.
- Conducted feasibility assessments, negotiated with stakeholders, and performed risk analysis to identify viable product opportunities.
- Supported strategic growth initiatives that increased product uptake and strengthened long-term portfolio performance.
Project Coordinator
D&tec
06.2016 - 03.2017
- Coordinated procedure schedules, equipment readiness, and clinical workflows to support high-volume diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy services.
- Acted as liaison across clinical, technical, administrative, and vendor teams to maintain supply availability, sterilization compliance, and smooth daily operations.
- Monitored resource utilization and turnaround times, contributing to reduced patient waiting periods and improved capacity planning.
- Monitored resource utilization and turnaround times, leading to reduced patient waiting periods and enhanced capacity planning.
- Supported implementation of digital workflow tools, improving documentation access and reducing delays during patient preparation and discharge.
- Coordinated facility upgrades and equipment acquisitions, addressing risk, cost, and readiness considerations.
Education
MSc - Information Technology (Data Analytics)
Washington University of Science and Technology
USAMaster of Business Administration - Financial Management
Lagos State University
NigeriaBachelor of Science - Economics & Education
Imo State University
NigeriaSkills
- Scrum ceremonies
- Kanban
- Relative Sizing
- Story Pointing
- SAFe
- Azure DevOps (ADO)
- Jira
- SQL
- Data Management
- Data Visualization
- Business Intelligence
- Cloud Solutions
- Leadership & Delivery
- Servant Leadership
- Team coaching
- Stakeholder Management
Accomplishments
- Enhanced Team Efficiency - Increased sprint throughput by optimizing processes, achieving 35% higher efficiency across teams.
- Optimized Delivery Timelines - Achieved 95%+ on-time delivery rate, decreasing rollbacks and minimizing post-deployment defects significantly.
Certification
Professional Scrum Master I ( PSM I) - Scrum.org,
Certificate in Digital Money (CIDM) - University of Cape Town, Advanced AML/CFT - Nigerian Capital Market Institute & SEC - Nigerian Capital Market Institute & SEC
Timeline
Scrum Master
Telus Digital
07.2025 - Current
Project Manager / Scrum Master
Washington University of Science and Technology
01.2024 - 06.2025
Scrum Master
First City Monument Bank
09.2022 - 03.2023
Agile Coach
Informed Analytics Limited
02.2019 - 09.2022
Scrum Master - Investment Products
Niche Capital Limited
03.2017 - 01.2019
Project Coordinator
D&tec
06.2016 - 03.2017
Bachelor of Science - Economics & Education
Imo State University
Master of Business Administration - Financial Management
Lagos State University
MSc - Information Technology (Data Analytics)
Washington University of Science and Technology
TRAINING / COURSES
- Digital Marketing Professional Certification - Digital Marketing Institute
- Project Management in Entrepreneurship - PMI