Project Manager Senior

Priya Kommuru

Frisco, Texas ***** 214-***-**** *****.*******.**@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/priyakommuru

SUMMARY

Results-driven Project Manager and Delivery Leader with over a decade of experience managing cross-functional projects across global business units. Adept at leading operational planning, defining success criteria, and delivering high-impact solutions on time and within budget. Expertise in Agile transformations, PMO best practices, risk and compliance management, and fostering collaboration between business and technology stakeholders. Proven ability to build and maintain relationships with key decision-makers while driving strategic initiatives that align technology with business objectives.

Project & Program Management Agile & SAFe Transformations Cross-Functional Team Leadership Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Risk & Compliance Management Process Optimization & Automation Stakeholder Engagement & Communication Enterprise-Wide Collaboration Vendor & Contract Management Leadership & Talent Development Executive-Level Communication & Reporting Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Business Process Improvement

EXPERIENCE

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES Dallas, Texas

Project Manager, Sr RTE, Sr Scrum Master, Sr. Product Owner 2014-2025

Led cross-functional, global initiatives across multiple business units, aligning strategic business goals with scalable engineering solutions, including enterprise platforms and regulatory systems.

Directed large-scale program planning and execution for prioritized workstreams, defining technical scope, interdependence, and success metrics across agile delivery teams.

Acted as a strategic liaison between business stakeholders, end users, architects and engineering teams to build business roadmaps into executable plans. Translate business objectives into technical requirements, ensuring clear alignment.

Oversaw a portfolio of 21 mission-critical Safety and Regulatory Compliance applications, ensuring availability, security, and compliance with FAA standards while supporting key operational teams.

Drove enterprise modernization initiatives, including cloud platform migration, API integration, and mobile-first architecture, with a focus on scalability, resilience, data governance and AI tools POC’s and implementations

Facilitated stakeholder engagement and executive steering committees, translating complex system architectures into actionable business insights and securing alignment on priorities and investment.

Mitigated risks and resolved blockers proactively, to guide teams through complex architectural decisions, compliance considerations, and system integration challenges.

Led executive-level presentations that translate complex technical solutions into strategic business insights. I drive alignment on key initiatives, ensuring clarity in decision-making and fostering collaboration across diverse stakeholders.

Constant visibility to business and technology leadership on gaps / pain points and potential solutions to improve and ensure teams had proper communication channels for escalations.

Enabled business process optimization by identifying improvement opportunities and driving automation and workflow efficiencies across cloud-native and legacy systems.

Mentored Agile teams and roles (Scrum Masters, Product Owners), driving maturity in backlog management, iterative delivery, and cross-team coordination within Release Trains.

Utilized PPM and collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, Rally) to manage program schedules, dependencies, and deliverables, ensuring transparency and alignment with technical roadmaps.

Managed vendor relationships and cross-functional delivery teams, ensuring end-to-end accountability from project initiation through deployment and support.

Experienced with RFP/ RFQ, vendor Score carding for Build verses buy projects for application rewrites/ replacements.

Implemented PMO best practices and Agile frameworks (Scrum, SAFe), Tailoring it based on the methodologies best suited for the product space, improving delivery efficiency, standardizing governance, and accelerating time-to-value.

TESLA MOTORS, INC. Palo Alto, California

Lead Business Analyst 2012-2014

Managed role working on sales and distribution module of SAP ERP system.

Conducted GAP analysis and built product backlog working with Configuration Engineers and other SMEs.

Worked on car booking, pricing categories, and reservation process with client-specific configuration facility.

Utilized Agile methodology to backfill Scrum master role by facilitating daily stand-ups, managing task board, and preparing and tracking burndown charts and velocity charts for prompt delivery of projects.

Identified and mitigated risks on weekly basis; prepared and delivered contingency plan as required throughout implementation of Model S booking app and support.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY, Houston, Texas; Alpharetta, Georgia, Senior Business Analyst, 2010-2011. Worked on consolidating the company’s supply chain and sales management module for different regional ERPs. Organized personnel allocation, using Microsoft Project, to keep up with project deadlines. Gathered use cases, process flow models, and gap analysis to understand shortcomings of existing processes and evaluated benefits of new system. Established documentation for Agile methodology for implementation with Waterfall-centric development team.

TESCO, Bangalore, India, Senior Technical Analyst, 2007. Specialized in handheld devices testing and deployment, enhancing device performance and reducing integration time. Gathered zonal requirements, conducting Point of Contact on customized solutions, further technical analysis, and validations on functional and performance front and train, and supervised implementation teams.

CA (COMPUTER ASSOCIATES), Hyderabad, India, Technical Analyst, 2004-2007

EDUCATION

RAJIV GANDHI UNIVERSITY, Bhopal, India

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronic Engineering

CERTIFICATIONS

SAFe RTE 6.0 (Release Train Engineer), SAFe

SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager, SAFe

SAFe for Teams Course, SAFe

TOOLS AND TECHNICAL SKILLS

Jira, Jira Align, Rally, Tello, MS Project SharePoint, Power BI, Confluence, Miro, Tableau,Azure Dev ops, C, C++, Java, SQL, XML, HTML, VB.NET, UML

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