Kyle Palentino

Kyle Palentino has a diverse work experience. Kyle started their career in 2009 as a Cadet with the Reserve Officer Training Corps, where they led an organization of 300 team members and peers. In 2013, they joined the US Army as a Logistics Operations Officer, where they were a subject matter expert for distribution operations and a project manager and operations supervisor. Kyle also served as a Logistics Platoon Leader, Junior Project Manager and Coordinator. In 2018, they became a CrossFit Instructor at CrossFit Pushin Weight and a Geospatial Data Analyst at Spectrabotics LLC. In 2019, they worked as a Scrum Master and Agile Lead for Mapcom Systems. In 2020, they were a Brand Ambassador for Bare Performance Nutrition. In 2021, they took on the role of Scrum Master at Esri.

Kyle Palentino obtained a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Geography from Old Dominion University between 2009 and 2013. In 2013, they also obtained a certification in Geographic Information Systems from Old Dominion University. Kyle then went on to obtain a Master of Science (M.S.) in Geographic Information Systems from The Johns Hopkins University between 2014 and 2020. During this time, they also obtained a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute in 2017, a GEOINT Professional Certification Fundamentals (GPC-F) certification from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 2019, a Certified SAFe® 5 Scrum Master certification from Scaled Agile, Inc. in 2020, a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification from the Scrum Alliance in 2019, and a Crossfit Trainer Level 2 (CF-L2) certification from CrossFit, Inc. in 2020. In addition, they also hold a Special Technical Operations Planner certification from the US Army.