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Landry Fortuné KOUFOUNDILA

Dallas,TX

Summary

Seasoned specialist offering several years of comprehensive experience interpreting and implementing quality assurance standards and investigating customer complaints and non-conformance issues. Practiced and knowledgeable professional possessing excellent problem solving and analytical skills paired with strong knowledge of qa terms, tools and methodologies. Committed to improving overall business processes.

Skilled Specialist with expertise in project management, problem-solving and team leadership. Strengths lie in ability to efficiently manage multiple tasks, develop strategic plans and ensure successful execution of operational goals. Previous experience led to significant improvement in workflow processes and overall performance efficiencies. Demonstrated skills include adaptability, negotiation and strong communication abilities.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Economic Growth Specialist

Department of State, American Embassy
Brazzaville, Congo
01.2007 - 02.2025
  • I managed the coordination of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses in the U.S. The government donated to the Ministry of Health of the Republic of the Congo.
    - Under my supervision, we were receiving a quantity of the vaccines and reagents, doing the inventory of the products, looking at the products, and making sure that they comply with the requirements, which include the quantity, the manufacturing dates, and the expiry dates.
  • I managed approximately 100,000 U.S. Dollars from the Department of State were disbursed to about 200 Congolese non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including, but not limited to, the Ambassador’s Special Self-Help Fund, the Julia Taft Refuge Fund, and the Fiscal Transparency Innovation Fund.
  • Managed and led a team of fifty people involved in strengthening entrepreneurship, women’s economic empowerment, and social development through the organization of the African Growth Act, AGOA workshops with about five hundred participants.

Special Program Coordinator

Department of State, American Embassy Emb
Brazzaville, Congo
01.2007 - 02.2025
  • I drafted and translated diplomatic notes sent to the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of the Congo.
  • I developed the military cooperation between the Department of Defense of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of the Congo, which was still embryonic after the war of 1997 in the Republic of the Congo. I started with only two programs: the programs for the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ICS) and the Center for Civil-Military Relations.

Supervisor and Coordinator of the Department

United Nations Development Program HIV/AIDS
Brazzaville, Congo
01.2004 - 02.2025
  • I supervised and led a team of seventy-five team members. I drafted schedules on a weekly basis on how to implement positive behavior through a participative approach among the youth in middle and high schools of Brazzaville on how to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS.
    - I held regular meetings with each head of the team to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each group.
    - I organized workshops to help them improve their weaknesses in showing by
    using best practices

Education

Bachelor of Arts - (literature And Civilisation of The Anglophone

Marien Ngouabi University
Congo Brazzaville
06-1998

Associate of Arts - Literature And Civilisation of The Anglophone

Marien Ngouabi University
Congo Brazzaville
06-1997

Skills

  • Business reporting
  • Advanced communication
  • Continuous improvement
  • Team performance improvement
  • Knowledge sharing
  • Quality assessment
  • Resource allocation
  • Documentation management
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Project management
  • Client services
  • Relationship building
  • Windows server
  • Office 365 security
  • Verbal and written communication
  • Customer service
  • Coaching and mentoring

Languages

English
Native/ Bilingual
French
Native/ Bilingual
Spanish
Limited
Italian
Limited
Chinese (Mandarin)
Elementary

Certification

  •  2018: EXWKP1001 GOR Workshop, Vienna, Austria
     2018: PY341 Achieving Policy Goals through Cultural Diplomacy, Vienna, Austria
     2017: PY224 Federal Assistance and the Office of Management and Budget Guidance, Foreign Service Institute, Online
     2015: PY260 Federal Assistance Management, Accra, Ghana
     2015: PD533 Overseas Crisis Management Exercise, Brazzaville, Congo
     2015: PE305 Environment, Science, Technology, and Health Tradecraft, Foreign Service Institute, Virginia
     2015: PY224 Federal Assistance and the Office of Management and Budget, Foreign Service Institute, Virginia, Web
     2014: Annual Counterintelligence Awareness Training for LE Staff, Foreign Service Institute online

Accomplishments

  • Mission Award: In appreciation of your active role in economic diplomacy and enduring service at the U.S. Embassy Brazzaville, ensuring seamless coordination on grants management, AGOA promotion, and continued mpox response (December 09, 2024).
  • Mission Award: In appreciation of your active role in health and economic diplomacy at the U.S. Embassy Brazzaville by ensuring seamless coordination on Mpox response and U.S. Coast Guard engagement between the United States and the Republic of Congo. (July 28, 2024)
  • Mission Award: In recognition of your work to advance bilateral maritime security priorities beyond the call of duty. (May 31,2023)
  • Mission Award: In appreciation of your extraordinary achievements in health diplomacy at U. S. Embassy Brazzaville, ensuring the safe delivery over 1 million COVID-19 vaccines from the United States to the republic of Congo.
  • Mission Award: In appreciation of your active role in health and economic diplomacy at the U.S. Embassy Brazzaville by ensuring seamless coordination on Mpox response and U.S. Coast Guard engagement between the United States and the Republic of Congo. Mission Award: For outstanding service during the COVID-19 pandemic (April 23, 2021).

Timeline

Economic Growth Specialist

Department of State, American Embassy
01.2007 - 02.2025

Special Program Coordinator

Department of State, American Embassy Emb
01.2007 - 02.2025

Supervisor and Coordinator of the Department

United Nations Development Program HIV/AIDS
01.2004 - 02.2025

Bachelor of Arts - (literature And Civilisation of The Anglophone

Marien Ngouabi University

Associate of Arts - Literature And Civilisation of The Anglophone

Marien Ngouabi University
Landry Fortuné KOUFOUNDILA