Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
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Manager

Vinayak Ullagaddi

Project Delivery Manager
Pune

Summary

Excellence driven professional with 4+ years' experience increasing efficiency, productivity, and revenue while effectively managing projects of all sizes. With a keen eye for detail and a disciplined approach to execution, excels at driving projects through to completion based on milestones and top- notch communication.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Delivery Manager

BAAR Technologies
Pune
02.2021 - Current

Highly motivated and results -driven project manager with 4+ years of experience in leading cross-functional teams to deliver projects on time and withing budget. Proven ability to drive complex projects from initiation to closure, while ensuring client satisfaction.


  • Elicit requirements to create high level flow and get approval from stakeholders
  • Create project charter to answer the critical w's like why, when, what, who, where etc
  • Create project plan to manage scope, deliverables, dependencies, milestones, risks, backlog items etc
  • Kickoff the project to discuss infra requirements & other support requests, meet it through relevant point of contacts and establish communication channels for light speed query resolutions
  • Partner with technical leads in developing solutions and defining delivery timelines
  • Summon team daily for sprint updates and removing bottlenecks if any
  • Create dashboards for updates on project milestones and send it to clients and other higher stakeholders
  • Conduct weekly sprint review call with client providing updates on progress/ issues etc., for the week and items that would be taken up in coming week
  • Monitor scope creep and maintain backlog items for less priority/out of scope items
  • Post successful UAT from client, provide walkthrough of the solution, training videos for future reference and user manual with detail steps on feature usage
  • Monitor successfully completed projects and provide high level statistics over a dashboard for greater insights to clients
  • Conduct feedback survey to gauge happiness index
  • Deliver solutions in silos for POC to prolific prospects.

Operations Executive

Climber
Bengaluru
02.2020 - 08.2020


  • Conducting market research and creation of strategies to penetrate target market.
  • Supporting team KPIs and targets and communicating activity metrics to senior management.

Embedded Engineer

Shalaka Connected Devices
Pune
08.2018 - 08.2019


  • Worked in various projects implementing the different software development life cycles coupled with time and budget constraints
  • Creating BRD to arrive at consensus with stakeholders
  • Performed quality assurance, system integration and user acceptance testing of various projects.

Education

Bachelor's in Engineering - Electronics And Telecommunications Engineering

MIT Academy of Engineering
Pune, India
2014.08 - 2018.07

Skills

    Critical thinking to manage project and associated resources

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Accomplishments

    Managed complex projects and products with budgets ranging from 50k $ to 200k $ in the Finance, HR & Supply Chain industries through software implementations to process improvement initiatives.


    In charge of projects related to automation of invoices & payroll, candidate sourcing, handling various versions of resumes, job requisition tracking, bank account statements reconciliation, visa and medical onboarding with UAE Govt, etc and other similar projects for prominent recruiting agency in the middle east named TASC Outsourcing.


  • Decrease operating cost for clients by 80 percent in Year 1 and providing year on year ROI benefits up to 90 percent and above in subsequent years of license renewals
  • Increase productivity by 75 percent
  • Handled a cross functional team of 20 members to successfully deliver projects over 200k $ within a year.

  • In charge of project related to Procurement automation for an eminent service provider to Indian defense services and establishments named Avantel.


  • Decrease operating cost for clients by 85 percent in Year 1 and providing year on year ROI benefits up to 95 percent and above in subsequent years of license renewals
  • Increase productivity by 85 percent
  • Handled a cross functional team of 10 members to successfully deliver project valued around 50k$ within a half a year.

  • Spearheading product development of BAARIGA- An Identity Governance and Administration product from BAAR technologies which automates all the user onboarding for IT team, User access management for business team and Segregation of duties, running user access review campaigns for governance team in large BFSI enterprises enabling them to focus on core business activities


  • Successfully delivered to Aditya Birla capital, DCB bank and Laurentian Bank
  • Decrease operating cost by 75 percent for IGA use cases in BFSI space
  • Decrease project completion time by 25 percent
  • Managed a cross functional tea of 15 members to deliver projects around 300k $ in India and abroad within a year.

  • In charge of partner management, I took the hassle out of onboarding partners by leading the development of the partner portal. Giving partners more time to focus on their pipelines and helping them close the deal faster


  • Decrease partner onboarding time by 80 percent
  • Decrease operating cost for managing partners by more than 85 percent.
  • Managed development through third party vendors to successfully delivering the complex project in a single quarter.

  • Other projects I am associated with are report automation for Tata steel, POS monitoring for Spin master, Contract clause extraction for Mind merchants.

Timeline

Project Delivery Manager

BAAR Technologies
02.2021 - Current

Operations Executive

Climber
02.2020 - 08.2020

Embedded Engineer

Shalaka Connected Devices
08.2018 - 08.2019

Bachelor's in Engineering - Electronics And Telecommunications Engineering

MIT Academy of Engineering
2014.08 - 2018.07
Vinayak UllagaddiProject Delivery Manager