Jeremy Neely

Senior Scrum Master with 10+ years of experience leading multiple concurrent Scrum and Kanban teams in large-scale, complex financial services environments. Certified in CSM, A-CSM, CSPO, and SAFe SSM, with a proven record of driving Agile transformations, mentoring Scrum Masters and Product Owners, and improving delivery predictability across enterprise initiatives. Skilled at dependency mapping, risk escalation, and holding teams accountable to delivery commitments, while fostering psychologically safe environments that enable collaboration, self-organization, and continuous improvement. Experienced in managing enterprise applications across loan origination, valuations, crop insurance, and electronic payments, ensuring compliance in regulated industries and driving measurable business outcomes.

Agile Frameworks: Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile (certified; applied knowledge)

Product Ownership Support: Backlog Prioritization, Epic & User Story Refinement, Acceptance Criteria, Roadmap Planning, Customer Feedback Loops, Stakeholder Engagement

Scrum Mastery: Servant Leadership, Team Coaching, Facilitation of Agile Ceremonies, Retrospectives, Continuous Improvement, Dependency Resolution

Collaboration & Delivery: Business–Technical Alignment, Planning Workshops, Release Readiness, Metrics & Reporting

Tooling & Metrics: Azure DevOps, Custom ADO Dashboards, Velocity Tracking, Burndown/Burnup, Flow Metrics, MS Teams

Quality & Readiness: Integrated QA, Test Planning, UAT Coordination, Automation Alignment