Chris Belknap

Chris Belknap is an Agility consultant providing Agile coaching, training and consulting in the Greater Boston and Seacoast New Hampshire area. He is one of the 270 worldwide Professional Scrum Trainers (PST) for Scrum.org, and a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Program Consultant (SPC).

For the past 4 years Chris has served as an Enterprise Agile Coach and transformation leader at Liberty Mutual Insurance, coaching and training multiple Scrum, Kanban and XP teams and leaders, including managers and C-level executives. Prior to that he was involved in Agile transformations as Technical Project Director at Unum and IT Director of Software Development at Fidelity Investments.

Having dedicated his entire career to software craftsmanship, Chris has been working with Scrum for over 12 years, and has extensive experience working as a software developer, Scrum Master, Project Manager, and IT Director. He also has several years of experience delivering large scale web and mobile based applications, and leading and developing onshore and offshore software development teams.

Chris holds an MBA from Southern New Hampshire University and a BS from Bryant University. He is currently a part-time instructor at the University of New Hampshire, and in the past has served as a computer science instructor at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.