On Tuesday, April 16, 2024, Aaron Whittenberger finished a 2-day Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (A-CSPO®) class offered by Agile to Agility. This is the sixth professional certification from three different certifying bodies that Aaron has earned. He also holds four certificates from back when he was a developer on the IBM Midrange systems and three insurance specific certifications from the Institutes.
Aaron is a Past-President of the Bluegrass IIBA Chapter and currently serves as our Vice President of Administration and Finance. He is a Senior Agile Business Analyst for an insurance company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. He boasts over 35 years of IT and business experience, including 15 as a consultant and 19 years of business analysis experience.
As noted, this is Aaron's sixth professional certification. He earned his Certified Business Analyst ProfessionalTM (CBAP®) certification from IIBA in 2008, his Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO®) from Scrum Alliance in 2018, his IIBA® Agile Analysis Certification (IIBA®-AAC) in 2019, his IIBA Certificate in Product Ownership Analysis (IIBA®-CPOA) in 2021, his ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Product Owner (ICP-APO) in 2022, and now his Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO®) from Scrum Alliance in April 2024.
Aaron loves learning new techniques and ways of working. He enjoys collaborating with a variety of people up and down the organization chart. He says he can talk to anyone from the janitor to the CEO. Aaron has specifically noted that he enjoys what he is doing for Bluegrass IIBA Chapter and seeing the great accomplishments that this chapter leadership team is doing, making the Bluegrass Chapter the best in the IIBA Chapter Network. Aaron was the chief architect of the chapter's migration of the chapter website from one platform to another. He collaborated with a team of five chapter leaders who built the new website. Congratulations on a job well done for that team!
