With over 25 years in the industry, Kevin has taught thousands of people how to better manage high-change projects by using techniques from Scrum, Extreme Programming, Feature-Driven Development, OpenUP and other agile methods. He has taught for several years at the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto where he won the SCS Excellence in Teaching Award. He is a PMI-certified Project Management Professional (PMP), is certified by IBM as a Certified Executive Project Manager by the International Project Management Association (IPMA) as a Senior Project Manager (IPMA Level B). Also certified by the Scrum Alliance as a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and Certified Scrum Professional (CSP). He is also certified by the Project Management Association of Canada as a Certified Agile Project Manager (Cert.APM), and holds the PMI Agile-Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) designation from the Project Management Institute and holds the Certified Management Consultant (CMC) designation from the Canadian Association of Management Consultants (CMC-Canada). Kevin is an active member of the Project Management Institute (USA) including the Information Systems SIG, the Association for Project Management (UK), the Project Management Association of Canada where he is a founding director and the current President, the Agile Alliance, and the Scrum Alliance. He is accredited by the International Project Management Association (founded in Switzerland) as a project management competency assessor, and performs IPMA assessments for the ASAPM in the USA and the PMAC in Canada, for both of which the IPMA awarded him the honorary designation of First Assessor. In 2013, the PMAC formally recognized Kevin with its highest honor by naming him a Fellow of the Project Management Association of Canada (FPMAC) and in 2015, the UK's Association for Project Management honoured Kevin by naming him a Fellow (FAPM).