Donie Paul Golanda
About Candidate
5+ years using field data to address supply, compliance, and operational challenges across East African healthcare, ed-tech, and construction. ISC² Cybersecurity meets Dartmouth Economics background to create a cross-disciplinary mindset. 2024 Staff of the Year for achieving outstanding outcomes under high-pressure situations.
Location
Education
KCSE
Specialty in Software Testing
Work & Experience
Key Responsibilities
- On-site: make vital decisions for timeliness and accuracy
- Stock management of building materials
- Lead stock supply chain and re-orders for cost minimization
- Intermediary and coordination between the principal's and the construction teams' needs
- Site safety and security enforcement
- Work crew human resource management
Key Achievements
- Villa upgrades on tiling
- Villa upgrades in the ceiling
- Villa upgrades in waterproofing for structural integrity
- Zero work accidents under my tenure
- Positive principal's feedback and teamwork environment
Key Responsibilities
- Relaunched older products, leading to a significant increase in student enrollments
- Managed client account health and payments to keep debt levels very low
- Built strong relationships with hundreds of key clients for strategic partnerships across Africa
- Client support: led logistics for over 40 cohorts to ensure they finished their programs successfully
- Research to enhance outreach in B2B and B2C training opportunities and partnerships
- CRM Management for streamlined data usage and audits
Key Achievements
- Revived dormant products such as Project Management, MS Project and more for increased revenue
- Proposed sustainability solutions to enhance the company's competitive edge from research
- Collected hundreds of thousands in KES from prior debtors
- Upskilling in leadership and management provided to thousands of African professionals
- B2B partnerships through alumni from the program
Key Responsibilities
- Led the supply chain for educational technology tools to local partners and schools
- Built strong relationships with over 80 key accounts for company growth into new areas
- Conducted over 500 product demonstrations, onboarding new customers in adopting the technology
- Research to inform and streamline outreach operations
- Training education stakeholders in proper edtech use
Key Achievements
- Named "Staff of the Year" for helping the company significantly increase its brand strength in underserved regions
- Singlehandedly introduced and established a new edtech brand in Nyanza and Western regions
- Promoted SDG-4 (Quality Education) in underserved regions through enhanced youth literacy and equal access to technical training
- Community empowerment: shifted the narrative in education stakeholders from viewing technology as a distraction to using technology as a resource
- Established an ecosystem of over 80 key partners in private schools and commercial sectors as direct and strategic brand ambassadors for the parent company
Key Responsibilities
- Process orders to quicken turnover and client satisfaction
- Re-stock coordination and account management at the Depot
- Support the sales team in route planning, policy guidance and motivation
- Intermediary between the directors and the sales team
- Warehouse stock management, tracking and documentation
- Financial support and documentation
- Lead debt collection efforts
Key Achievements
- Prevented business collapse by recovering significant debts
- Cleaned data in QuickBooks for streamlined external audits
- Zero stock misplacement and losses during my tenure
- Improved terms between senior and sales teams for better business performance
- Contributed to improved and sustainable team performance for greater profitability
- Increased B2B clients due to transparency in account management and communication
Key Responsibilities
- Vendor management: researched, vetted, established favorable business terms for the company
- Warehouse stock management, tracking and documentation
- Stock deployment to clinical centers
- Researched and procured all capital equipment, medical inventory and consumables
- Trained staff at dialysis centers on standard product protocols
- Data analysis of country usage data to forecast demand and resolve anomalies
- Reported product use and advised senior management regarding tricky inventory challenges
- Supported in clearance follow-ups for sensitive medical imports
- Scaled up supply chain protocols to match growth needs for uninterrupted service
Key Achievements
- Singlehandedly build a vendor database for Kenya operation stock needs
- Built a standard of procedure playbook for procurement and supply chain operations for Kenyan dialysis chain
- Singlehandedly built stock database for the company
- Zero incidents/losses at a warehouse storing high value medical stock and in transit to centers
- Used Excel to accurately forecast a 2 year demand for current and new centers
- Faced zero stockouts and utilized cost minimization strategies during CV-19 supply chain disruptions
- Innovative product solutions to meet organic unforeseen zero-day challenges
- Enforced a culture of accountability in stock use across all departments
Key Responsibilities
- Improving Dartmouth's contractual performance by migrating backlog legal data to the online database
- Improved statistical data efficiency by running data analytics via Excel and streamlining protocols
- Built team skill coherence by researching methodologies in collaborative initiatives and internal legal training
- Gained entrepreneurial know-how via extensive exposure to Dartmouth's intellectual property databases
- Data cleaning such as removing duplicates
Key Achievements
- Migrated data records from email and other raw records to the central school database
- Ran basic statistics on Intellectual property (IP) records via Excel and shared findings with the team for decision making
- Cleaned hundreds of IP records
- Coordinated entrepreneurial and IP knowledge training sessions for new staff
- Developed standardized protocols for quicker data transfer and tagging aligned with US IP requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Provided resources to students for their wellbeing such as contraceptives
- Organized education programming events, bringing experts in sensitive topics for residents
- Direct counsel on demand to juniors regarding education decisions
- Organized social programming events to enhance residents' unity
- Escalated residents' concerns and needs to school administration for intervention
Key Achievements
- Awareness events and participation covered sensitive topics such as SRHR
- Career guidance to tens of students became positive campus outcomes
- Timely interventions helped prevent school transfers for struggling students
- Community unity and intercultural exchange developed leaders with broadened mindsets who took on other leadership roles
- Increased networking yielded young professionals proactive in strategic job hunting and off campus work excellence
Key Responsibilities
Dana Biomedical Library | Kresge Library | Baker-Berry Libraries
- Prevent loss of library resources via interventions at triggered turnstiles
- Provide one on one support and guidance to visiting/return patrons regarding the school
- Connect students to appropriate library resources
- Updated library databases and flagged anomalies
- Brand ambassador for Dartmouth College
Key Achievements
- Thousands of patrons got access to library resources
- Updated library databases
- Provided client feedback via the data input portal
- Cultural exchange: shared more about East Africa with US patrons
- Brand ambassador for Dartmouth College
Awards
Research funding - Dartmouth College
Research funding - Dartmouth College
Monetary bonus for helping the company significantly increase its brand strength in underserved regions of Nyanza and Western Kenya
Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI):
-SOCIAL / HUMANISTIC / BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH
-Researcher- Human Development
KASNEB:
Accounting
Google:
Security, Safety & Compliance
*Ongoing
ISC²:
Security, Safety & Compliance
Project Management Institute (PMI):
Agile and Waterfall methodologies
The National Industrial Training Authority:
Project Management
Splunk:
* Ongoing
IBM SkillsBuild
Oterman's Institute:
AI Ethics
Code Signal:
Python