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