Donie Paul Golanda

Operations & Project Management Professional
February 3, 1993

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

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BA Economics 2013-2017
Dartmouth College
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O Levels 2008-2011
Starehe Boys Center

KCSE

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Certificate in Software Engineering Jul 2025 - Dec 2025
Power Learn Project

Specialty in Software Testing

Work & Experience

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Site Coordinator 01-02-2026 - Current
Private Principal

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

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Project Management Consultant 02-02-2025 - 31-01-2026
Vantage Africa School of Leadership

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

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Business Development Officer 20/08/2024 - 31/01/2025
Elimutab Africa

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

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Operations Manager 15-07-2021 - 15-07-2024
Groen Ventures Limited [Rubis PLC Regional Distributor]

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

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Supply Chain and Procurement Manager 15-09-2019 - 15-07-2021
Africa Healthcare Network Kenya Limited

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

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Data Assistant 23-09-2017 - 01-07-2018
Dartmouth Office of Entrepreneurship & Tech Transfer

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

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Undergraduate Student Advisor • Part-time 23-09-2015 - 30-06-2017
Dartmouth Office of Residential Education

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

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Librarian • Part-time 23-11-2013 - 30-06-2017
Dartmouth College Libraries

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

Portfolio

Awards

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Recipient- Milham Family Research Grant 2014-2015
Research funding - Dartmouth College
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Recipient- Lucas Family Research Grant 2016
Research funding - Dartmouth College
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Staff of the Year 2024
Monetary bonus for helping the company significantly increase its brand strength in underserved regions of Nyanza and Western Kenya
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CITI Researcher 2016
Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI): -SOCIAL / HUMANISTIC / BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH -Researcher- Human Development
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CPA 1 2012
KASNEB: Accounting
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Scholar- Google Cybersecurity: Module 1-3 * 2026
Google: Security, Safety & Compliance *Ongoing
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Certified in Cybersecurity (CC) 2026
ISC²: Security, Safety & Compliance
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Project Management Kickoff 2026
Project Management Institute (PMI): Agile and Waterfall methodologies
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Certified Project Management Professional (CPMP) 2025
The National Industrial Training Authority: Project Management
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Splunk: Power User Fundamentals * 2026
Splunk: * Ongoing
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Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals with Capstone Project 2026
IBM SkillsBuild
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Certificate in AI Literacy 2025
Oterman's Institute: AI Ethics
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Programming Foundations with Python 2025
Code Signal: Python

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