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About Fred

Fred Mastropasqua is the co-founder of Clearly Agile and CEO of The Braintrust Group, leading a team of 60 employees. Is a Certified Scrum Trainer by the Scrum Alliance, based in the Greater Tampa Bay region. With over 30 years of IT experience, Fred has built enterprise-level business applications. He has held various roles, including Director of Application Development, Senior IT Manager, Software Engineer, Network Engineer, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Agile Coach, and Trainer.

Fred is renowned for his selfless leadership and problem-solving skills. He dedicates time to team member development and creates innovative solutions. He excels in coaching leadership on effective portfolio/product management and scaling techniques, mentoring Agile professionals, and training development teams on the Scrum framework. His training sessions are engaging and collaborative, leveraging cognitive science to enhance learning.

Fred built the SaaS company Synuma from scratch and successfully sold it, using only the Scrum Framework for product development with 1-week sprints. Under his leadership, Clearly Agile was ranked 500 on Inc.'s fastest 5000 US growing companies. Fred has also been nominated for the Tampa Bay Business Journal's Up & Comers Awards, the CIO of the Year Award, and was a finalist for Emerging Technology Leader of the Year and the finalist for Technologist of the Year by the Tampa Bay Technology Forum.

Clients appreciate Fred's hands-on approach to custom business applications for both cloud and mobile platforms, as well as his ability to create product visions and release plans via story mapping. He holds multiple certifications in Agile, Scrum, Scrum@Scale, Software, and Networking and continuously expands his expertise. Fred has trained employees of Disney, PwC, the VA, Nielsen, and other Fortune 500 companies, ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery of solutions.

His software background heavily influences Fred's approach. He utilizes techniques like Behavior-Driven Development, Vertical Slicing, and estimation of project delivery dates and costs. Fred enjoys game development, computers and electronics, apologetics, and woodworking outside of work.

Agile & Scrum Topics

As a Certified Scrum Trainer, here are videos I’ve made based on Agile, Scrum and my experience.

Did You Know, X, About the Bible?

YouTube Playlist of videos I’ve recorded prior to Sunday Service.

 

Evidence Of God

YouTube Playlist of a monthly video series I did on how Science shows evidence for God. Religion & Science are not at odds like many want you to believe. Here’s the evidence for why an intelligent person believes there is a God and why is it the Christian God?