Current Total work experience: 11 years
Teaching/Training Experience: 8 years
Languages Taught : German, French, Spanish, English, Hindi
Languages Provided: German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin, English
and all regional Indian languages
Certifications: C2 German (Native level), B2 (French), Successfully underwent a
German Teacher’s training course in Regensburg, Germany
Bosch Trainings conducted so far: Project Management Fundamentals- Basics,
Self-Awareness- TDP, Conflict Management, Influential Presentation Skills, Effective
Business Communication, Intercultural Trainings and Cultural awareness
With an MS in Computer Science from Albert-Ludwig’s University, Freiburg, Germany
and an MBA in General Management Indo-German Training Centre -Bangalore,
supported by 6 years of work experience in India and abroad, with major names like
Daimler (Germany) and C-It-Now (UK), Gayatri is now poised to take her career into her
area of passion – helping people develop and succeed.
She has a rare combination in her talent for spoken foreign languages and software project
skills. She speaks fluent German and has worked a lot with Germans. She has an
instinctive understanding of the German psyche that has stood her well in her corporate
responsibilities. She has also been a communication liaison specialist between Germany
and India for Daimler-Benz and has handled customer-facing roles entirely in English and
German. She is currently advancing her French and Spanish. She also enjoys problem
solving, and is an accomplished soft skills trainer with strengths in the areas of Leadership,
Communication and Team Work. She also has a marked empathy for helping women
succeed. Last but not least, she is a C-2 level (From Goethe Institute) in German
language. She speaks basic French and Spanish apart from 6 Indian languages. She is
also capable of teaching any Germanic Language such as Dutch, Swedish and
Scandinavian languages, owing to her skills as a linguist. Gayatri is a certified trainer
from the Horizonte institute of Germany- Regensburg, where she has undergone
rigorous training in detailed programs of pedagogy, didactics and various methods
of teaching German as a foreign language (Daf-Deutsch alsFremdsprache) to adults and children. She was the first Indian to attend this programme, in this particular school.
In her corporate stint at C-It-Now, UK, she functioned as the single point of contact from
UK, for all the projects rolling out at car dealerships in Germany. She assisted and
managed roll out and roll in of customer support, order Management, training and
conceptual understanding along with appropriate documentation for German customers.
She also solved, troubleshot and managed 1st and 2nd line support for the entire
European region that included Germany, France, Spain, Netherlands, UK and Ireland.
This exposed her to hands-on experience in troubleshooting customer issues with the
product and was voted as “Customer-Wow Champion”, “Sharpshooter”, and “Most
valuable player” on the ticketing system dashboard. She is also adept at creating and
managing Project reports and documentation. This amply bears out her fluency and skill
in dealing with European customers.
In her stint with Daimler, she was a coordinator and Liaison between Germany and India
and also performed manual, regression, integration and GUI Testing of Daimler
Automotive-IT Products. She gathered experience in requirement specification, Test
case writing, planning and execution. She also functioned as a Requirements
Responsible for the biggest Daimler IT Automotive Tool Project- that tested Daimler
vehicles.. She became adept at software requirements engineering in German, and has
translated requirements into technical specification documents (UML diagrams and Use
cases), besides designing use cases and clarifying of requirements and Unit testing of
every release.
Following her goal to eventually create and lead an institution of language specialists
and provide a wide range of foreign language and culture-based training for corporate
customers in the area of Customer Support and Customer Facing services, she worked
at inlingua Bangalore as the Director of Studies for 2.5 years, specializing in German
and French language training, and a cross cultural relationship specialist. She is also a
certified Corporate Trainer with Robert Bosch, and deals with topics such as
Business Communication, Project Management, Negotiation Skills, Intercultural
skills and many more.