Paul Carter

Paul Carter grew up on the central coast of California. He currently resides in the Kansas City metropolitan area where he has lived for the past 20 years. He earned a Bachelor’s degree from DeVry University in Computer Information Systems. He has been worked in the IT industry for 18 years with a strong background in the financial services industry – Mutual Funds, Annuities, Life Insurance and Banking.  He has also worked with other companies from manufacturing to hotel management, transforming the world of work.

Paul Carter is an Agile Coach and Scrum Trainer. He is actively involved in multiple Agile user groups at work and in the Kansas City community. Paul is an Agile enthusiast with a passion for transforming teams and growing agility as a business strategy within the enterprise. He currently teaches the following workshops: Agile Scrum Boot Camp, Product Visioning and Story Mapping, Agile Leadership, User Story Workshops, Effective Sprint Planning and Agile Estimation Techniques. He also provides agile consulting and training. He holds the PMP, CSM, CSP, CSPO and CAL1 certifications.  He has presented at the Scrum Alliance conference, at LeanAgileKC, a regional Agile conference in Kansas City and at the PMI Personal Development Days conference on various topics and has been invited back as a speaker multiple times.  He has also been featured at the KC IT Symposium conference for CIOs.

Paul has trained over 4000 to leverage Agile Scrum.  He has trained and coached attorneys, marketing teams, sales, operations, lenders and executives as well as IT teams with astounding success and productivity gains.  He has brought Agile to large corporations and small businesses and non-profits.  Agile everywhere from executive action teams, school districts and colleges, museums and running a 5 star resort ranch!

He is married with 6 children (a nice size Scrum team) and enjoys roller coasters and water parks. You can follow him on Twitter @AgileFamilyGuy