Vineela Kotra
Senior Delivery Manager
Bengaluru
Summary
Senior Delivery Manager with 14+ years of experience leading large-scale projects in the Energy and Retail domains, driving enterprise implementations across geographies in matrixed environments. Skilled in Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, and Iterative methodologies, with a proven record of executing complex programs from conception to closure with high quality and predictability.
Recognized for driving process improvement initiatives that deliver measurable efficiency gains. Strong people and project management skills, with expertise in leading distributed teams, fostering skill development, career growth, and mentoring.
Currently serving as Senior Delivery Manager at Bidgely, accountable for end-to-end implementation, customer adoption, support, and data analytics of the Bidgely suite of products for North American and Middle eastern accounts.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Senior Delivery Manager
Bidgely Technologies Pvt Ltd
01.2022 - Current
- Successfully delivered high-complexity projects such as DESC TOU and AVISTA HERs, PSEG driving adoption of new products and ensuring seamless integration into customer environments.
- Revived a failing PSEG project by streamlining the testing strategy, restoring customer satisfaction, and ensuring successful delivery which directly was impacting the org revenue
- Boosted Sustenance team intake capacity by 30% by streamlining the SOPs on various categories, and upskilling team members to work more efficiently.
- Expert in developing high-performing, scalable teams that adapt quickly to evolving business needs while maintaining quality and predictability.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams like the Devops team, Platform team, Product Engineering teams to streamline workflows, reducing redundant tasks and increasing productivity.
- Competency building, Capacity Management, Skill up-gradation and career planning for the team of 20+ consisting of techleads, engineers & testing team
Delivery Manager
Bidgely Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
01.2022 - Current
- Delivered highly complex SaaS-based applications to enterprise customers, ensuring end-to-end implementation with utmost quality, reliability, and customer satisfaction on the North American Power Utilities
- Transitioned pilot projects from Waterfall to Agile, accelerating product launches and improving customer satisfaction.
- Worked on expedited timelines to deploy the latest products NBI (Next Best Insights) and HER(Home energy report) to its customers which helped them achieve their energy efficiency goals
- Spearheaded a delivery-wide learning initiative, BOLT, to strengthen product knowledge, Bidgely architecture understanding, and technical skills—resulting in a 25% increase in engineers’ delivery efficiency. The program continues to be used for onboarding all new delivery team members.
- Competency building, Capacity Management, Skill up-gradation and career planning for the team of 10+ consisting of techleads, engineers & testing team
Stay at home Parent
08.2015 - 12.2021
- Spent the 6 years raising two kids.
- Pursued Spl Educator course to support my volunteering activities
Project Manager, Scrum master , Stores BI Engg
Target Corporation India Pvt. Ltd.
10.2014 - 08.2015
- Played the role of Scrum master to digitally enhance the myPerformance product to extend to Stores.
- Used project metrics(Epic Burndown, Effort Burndown, Velocity) to manage release execution and sprints
- Coached our team as well as other project teams to adopt and transition to Agile
- Delivery ownership and Relationship management for all Mainframe, Datastage, Microstrategy resources of Stores myPerformance teams comprising 15+ Team Members & Contractors resources.
- Talent/Performance Management of 15+ team members including high performing Technical Architects.
- Competency building, Capacity Management, Skill up-gradation and career planning for the team
Project Lead - Delivery Services
Target Corporation India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2011 - 09.2014
- Efficiently transitioned myPerformance desktop to agile from waterfall and addressed the financial overspend of $150k by optimizing the resource needs
- Managed multiple projects in this capacity of varied technologies like .Net, Java, Mainframe and varied Business users in Merchandising and Operation space
- Facilitated weekly Resource Demand Management meetings with Mainframe CoE & Engagement teams to enable timely conversation on critical resource needs.
- Recognized outstanding contributions, helped in career planning for a team of size 10.
Team Lead - Delivery Services
Target Corporation India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2010 - 08.2011
- End to end execution ownership of multiple projects in Merchandising and Operations program
Senior Software Engineer - Delivery Services
Target Corporation India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2007 - 12.2009
- Led the mainframe team and collaborated with various tracks leads(4 tracks) for successful launch of the Prospace tool and various other projects in the Merchandising space
- Was involved in status reporting, milestone reviews, cross team issue resolutions and escalations
IT Analyst
Caterpillar India Logistics Pvt ltd
06.2006 - 08.2007
- Designed & developed Antares Parts Invoicing application which offer solution for the logistics requirements of corporate clients
- Collaborated with various downstream application owners to initiate and drive the downstream application regression testing thus reducing the effort spent on defects by 20%
Software Engineer
Satyam Computer
01.2004 - 04.2006
- Design & development of Employee re-insurance corporation application which is designed to offer solutions for the insurance requirements of GE clients
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical and Electronics
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
01.2002
Skills
- Client-oriented mindset
- Project management expertise
- Communication skills
- People Management skills
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Issue & Conflict resolution
- Stakeholder management
- Adaptability and flexibility
- Problem-solving aptitude
Certification
Scrum Master certification (from Good Agile)
Accomplishments
- Managed about 10 various North American energy customer’s end to end execution of Bidgely suite of products
- Collaborated with various product, platform, devops, delivery teams within Bidgely to deploy their latest products ‘Next Best Insights (NBI)’, Home energy report (HER 2.0) on expedited timelines which helped in meeting their Energy Efficiency savings goals.
- Spearheaded a delivery-wide learning initiative “BOLT” to improve engineer’s technical skills and knowledge on Bidgely architecture, tools etc leading to increase in the engineer’s deliverable efficiency by 25%.
- Led the “go Agile” initiative in my current and previous organizations resulting in transitioning projects from Waterfall to Agile with minimal impact on the ongoing release
- Led the Mainframe CoE resource utilization drive resulting in improved resource utilization from 65% to 90 by analyzing the workforce data and collaborating with various teams
Timeline
Senior Delivery Manager
Bidgely Technologies Pvt Ltd
01.2022 - Current
Delivery Manager
Bidgely Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
01.2022 - Current
Stay at home Parent
08.2015 - 12.2021
Project Manager, Scrum master , Stores BI Engg
Target Corporation India Pvt. Ltd.
10.2014 - 08.2015
Project Lead - Delivery Services
Target Corporation India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2011 - 09.2014
Team Lead - Delivery Services
Target Corporation India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2010 - 08.2011
Senior Software Engineer - Delivery Services
Target Corporation India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2007 - 12.2009
IT Analyst
Caterpillar India Logistics Pvt ltd
06.2006 - 08.2007
Software Engineer
Satyam Computer
01.2004 - 04.2006
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical and Electronics
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
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