Brady Nelson

About Brady Nelson

Certified Scrum Master / Agile Coach with 9 years of experience leading agile teams through delivery, forecasting, process maturity, and stakeholder management across IT Operations, Enterprise Applications, and Product Delivery teams. Proven ability to manage complex, multi-department initiatives, establish intake and prioritization processes, mature agile ways of working, and communicate effectively with engineers, business partners, and executive leadership. Strong track record of improving flow efficiency, enabling predictable delivery, managing risks and dependencies, and supporting large-scale SaaS and cloud platform initiatives. n••••••••@gmail.com

Experience

1. Senior Scrum Master

   Paylocity

   Mar 2023 — Present

   Senior Scrum Master for two large Salesforce development teams, facilitating the creation of processes that measure and improve flow efficiency and predictability, along with ongoing refinement of team standards that drive alignment, accountability, and quality• Facilitate quarterly roadmap planning sessions, leveraging metrics such as velocity, predictability, and feature churn to deliver data-driven forecasts, improving planning confidence and expectation setting with senior stakeholders• Build dashboards and reports shared with Senior Leadership that monitor backlog hygiene, roadmap progression, predictability, work-type allocation, quality, capacity management, and release management• Administer Jira for teams across Enterprise Applications by creating custom workflows, fields, and automation to improve reporting, streamline the developer experience, and ensure data integrity

Education

• University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

  2011 — 2015

Skills

• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Problem Solving
• Customer Service
• Teamwork
• IT Infrastructure Operations
• Enterprise IT Infrastructure
• User Stories
• Agile Methodologies
• Social Media
• Management
• Windows
• Eclipse
• Leadership
• Microsoft Word
• Team Leadership
• Public Speaking
• Microsoft Office
• Data Entry
• Feature Prioritization
• Sql Server Management Studio
• Office 365
• Servant Leadership
• Data Analysis
• People Skills
• C#
• Team Foundation Server (Tfs)
• Visual Basic
• Visual Studio
• Time Management