Kavita Venkatesan

Results-driven Project Manager with 14 years of extensive experience in Oracle Retail, leading end-to-end project delivery. PMP certified with expertise as a Professional Scrum Master I & II, adept at managing complex projects and teams to achieve successful outcomes. Experienced with coordinating multifaceted projects from inception to completion.

Track record of fostering team collaboration and maintaining open communication with stakeholders to ensure project milestones are met. Highly organized individual with more than 8 years working as Assistant Project Manager for Oracle Retail projects. Proven experience in damage control through positive reinforcement across global clients.

Project Manager at Aspire Systems, PVT Ltd (2025-06 – Present)

Exercised strong leadership as a Project Manager at Aspire Systems, steering a 65-member team towards enhanced efficiency in Application Support and AI Enhancement [2M$/year worth long term project].

• Demonstrated excellent leadership in budget management, timelines, and resources, which endeavored the successful attainment of project milestones.
• Showcased leadership abilities by collaborating with various teams to accurately define scope and deliverables, which boosted overall project success by 10%.
• Regularly convened stakeholder meetings as a proactive leader, ensuring project goals were consistently met and progress was routinely improved.
• Reinforced leadership role by playing a crucial part in stabilizing a failing project, steering it towards success.
• Developed and maintained project plans, schedules, and budgets to ensure project milestones were achieved in accordance with client expectations.
• Prepare cost estimates, schedule project tasks, allocate resources to team members, oversee a project assistant, and monitor projects to ensure they are completed on time and under budget.
• Contribute to proposals and hold fact-finding meetings to create project management plans based on each client's needs.
• Developed and implemented project plans within controlled budgets and have ensured successful execution of project end-to-end.
• Driven AI related initiatives for the retailer to enable faster paced actions within the project that ruled out manual activities. Explored automation tools like Power Automate/Automation Edge for solutioning approaches.

Associate Project Manager at Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd (Logic Information Systems - Acquired) (2012-10 – 2025-05)

Experience delivering IT projects on-time and within budget through improved productivity, performance and cost control.

• 14 years of experience in Oracle Retail and Retek applications as Delivery head for Quality Assurance, Production support and End-to-end development of functionalities.
• Managed portfolio of 35+ members in Shared model.
• Experience delivering IT projects on-time and within budget through improved productivity, performance and cost control.
• Techno-Functional knowledge on Oracle RMS, RESA, RPM, REIM, RA/RI, RPAS at various levels.
• Guided team members on process management, code review, compliance to quality standards.
• Proven manager for cross functional 25+ membered team since 2015.
• Collaborated effectively with stakeholders, partners and project teams to aid timely delivery against technical roadmaps.
• Responded to customer concerns quickly and effectively, minimizing Service disruptions.
• Had been responsible for timely metric tracking for 15+ clients as a Portfolio Manager.
• Regular publishing of WSR, BWSR, MSR, RACI Matrix, QBR's.
• Had been integral part of Discovery phase and due diligence.
• Have solid experience in writing contracts (SOW's) for Managed Service projects.
• Have been an integral part of Hiring appropriate candidates for various roles within the organization and for client organizations.
• Managed and motivated employees to be productive and engaged in work.

Master of Business Administration in Human Resources Management – College of Engineering, Guindy (2012-10 – 2015-02)

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering – Srinivasa Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chennai (2008-09 – 2012-06)