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Calandra Taylor-Porter

Calandra Taylor-Porter

Baltimore, MD

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Certified Scrum Product Owner®

About

Title: Scrum Master & Project Manager

Calandra is a stellar and diligent Certified Scrum Master with several years of executing Scrum.  As a Scrum Master, Calandra posses empathy developing and a connection with her Scrum teams.  She has had the opportunity to lead software development Scrum teams, and be apart of governement and private Agile organizational and leadership transformations using the Scrum methodologies.  She has provided Scrum Teams, Stakeholders and Management Teams with Agile Lifecycle coaching, routine Scrum ceremonies and monitoring Scrum Team performance.  She has trained and assisted with identifying the project Scrum Team's roles and responsibilities as needed in order to  build and prioritize the Product Backlog which includes participation from stakeholders and business operations. Calandra is instrumental in facilitating and directing her Scrum Teams to success by practicing routine Agile disciplines, team building exercises, Sprint ceremonies and translate to functional product planned releases.

Calandra has provided Agile tool training, Agie Team Training, Agile Community of Practice, Lunch and Learns and  Scrum Master Community of Practice sessions across governement agencies. These efforts allowed the agency to align with the ageny Agile transformation's career paths to support the organization's Scrum project teams.

Experience and services

  • Career history

    • 2006-05-01 - 2008-10-01 - CareFirst, Inc. (Business Analyst)
    • 2008-10-06 - 2009-04-06 - GDIT, Inc. (Business Analyst II)
    • 2009-07-20 - 2009-11-02 - Select Computing, Inc. (Senior Business Analyst)
    • 2009-11-16 - 2010-08-02 - AboutWeb (for QSSi) (Senior Business Analyst )
    • 2009-11-16 - 2010-08-23 - Booz Allen Hamilton (Program Analyst)
    • 2010-09-03 - 2011-05-02 - QSSI, Inc. (Senior Business Analyst)
    • 2011-05-09 - 2012-03-12 - TekSystems, Inc. (IT Business Analyst)
    • 2012-08-06 - 2013-10-31 - 7 Delta Inc. (now Mantech) (Scrum Master/Senior Application Analyst)
    • 2013-10-31 - 2015-05-07 - AMC HVAC Mechanical Engineering (Project Manager)
    • 2015-05-05 - 2016-03-14 - Information Innavators, Inc. (Scrum Master )
    • 2016-03-21 - 2018-02-09 - Northrop Grumman (Scrum Master)