Gauri Deshpande

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Chief of Staff at Ridge Grid · Technical program management · program management, Jira

Ridge Grid
Ahmedabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
10+ years experience
IIIT Bangalore
English, Hindi, Gujarati
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Overview

10 years in operations, the last 3 at Ridge Grid, where I work on the TPM team. Brought support first-response time from 17 hours to under 2. Launched operations in 24 cities. Before that: Capgemini and Larsen & Toubro. Amateur photographer; mostly street and food.

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cross-team deliveryroadmappingJiraprogram management

Experience

  1. Chief of Staff
    May 2023 - Present
    Ridge Grid · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Launched operations in 4 cities.
    • Rebuilt the planning process the company still runs every quarter.
    • Ran the TPM program across 9 teams to launch on schedule.
  2. Operations Associate
    Feb 2021 - May 2023
    Capgemini · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Secured 8 payments licences.
  3. Operations Associate
    Dec 2018 - Feb 2021
    Larsen & Toubro · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Built the privacy programme for launches in 21 countries.
    • Negotiated 349 commercial agreements a year.
  4. Operations Associate
    Sep 2017 - Dec 2018
    ITC · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Negotiated 265 commercial agreements a year.
  5. Operations Associate
    Oct 2016 - Sep 2017
    ICICI Bank · 11 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Built the privacy programme for launches in 19 countries.
    • Secured 3 payments licences.

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Education

  1. IIIT Bangalore
    M.Tech, Economics
    2019 - 2021
  2. Jadavpur University
    B.E., Economics
    2012 - 2016

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