Naina Puttagunta

Experience

1. Lead Program Manager

   Sabre

   Sep 2019 — Present · Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US

   SynXis® Central Reservation System is the leading global hospitality commerce and distribution platform, enabling hoteliers to go beyond with streamlined distribution, centralized control, and greater flexibility.The SynXis Central Reservation System (SynXis CRS) helps hoteliers ensure consistent distribution of ARI across channels including online travel agencies (OTAs), global distribution systems (GDSs), booking engines, and call centers at a corporate or property level.Heavily involved in the complete SDLC of Application\'s quarterly commitments from the point of inception to its timely release in Production Closely worked with Product and Architecture teams to conduct weekly sessions for reviewing requirements and design discussions respectively, for the upcoming quarterEfficiently coordinated with Dev & QA Managers to form teams for upcoming quarter deliverables based on design estimates and each member\'s quarterly capacityExtensively used Rally for weekly reporting purposes and tracking team deliverables and their timelines, all along encouraging the teams to use Rally for documenting their commitments for the SprintsConsistently managed timely delivery of about 10 projects each quarter, successfully coordinating with multiple Scrum teams located globally Closely worked with Scum Masters in conducting cross-functional collaboration meetings to ensure timely release of the productDrive efforts in navigating requested requirement changes thru proper management channels and assisting with impact analysis and trade-offs Proactively involved in conducting process improvement meetings following the Agile methodology and documenting quick process guide Conducted training sessions to review the newly defined process with respective team members. Closely monitored team’s involvement in following the newly defined process

Education

• Wright State University

  Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering

  1999 — 2002

• Bhartiya Balika Vidhyalay

  High School , Physical Sciences

  1990 — 1992

Skills

• Requirements Gathering
• Sdlc
• Business Intelligence
• Integration
• Business Analysis
• Process Improvement
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Strategy
• Vendor Management
• Project Management
• Management
• Sql
• Strategic Planning
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Enterprise Architecture
• Requirements Analysis
• Crm