Little-known insights into CDF Ogolla’s daughter

The tragic helicopter crash that claimed the life of esteemed General Francis Ogolla has not only shed light on aspects of his private life, attributes and achievements, but also revealed the remarkable journey of his family.

Ogolla is survived by his wife Aileen and two children, Lorna Omondi and Joel Rabuku, and a daughter-in-law and a grandson.

Despite the overwhelming grief gripping the nation, many are now turning their attention to honoring the memory of both the late general and the remarkable woman he raised.

These are the lesser known details of Lorna’s personal journey.

Lorna is the current Head of Operational Excellence, DC Equipment Supply Chain at Google in the San Francisco Bay Area.

According to the information on her LinkedIn page, she has held this position for more than a year.

Her role includes managing business operations, operations managementstrategic planning and data management systems, tools and process functions.

As principal, she provides leadership and program management to facilitate the vision, transformation and overall direction of the equipment supply chain team.

Between 2001 and 2003, she worked as a senior lead in supply planning at Google Datacenters.

Here she managed global supply-side capacity planning and operations for Google Data Centers, optimizing spend on billions of dollars in capital expenditures annually.

Lorna led the team that developed global leadership recommendations on what kind of data center option to build, where to build it, and when to build it.

She has also worked as a Management and Economic Consultant at Greylock McKinnon Associates, where she designed and implemented linear optimization algorithms that helped clients understand the implications of electricity generation or transmission projects and provided calculations to assist in the valuation of energy properties during litigation. .

She also worked as an analyst at Charles River Associates, where she implemented linear optimization algorithms that helped clients understand the implications of electricity generation or transmission projects.

In her role, she performed analyzes that helped clients determine the optimal location for their investments and presented the potential economic benefits that could result from their investment decisions.

Lorna’s educational journey began at Kenya High School in Nairobi before attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US.

She would later graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering.

In 2014, she attended the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom for MPhil in Management Science and Operations and later obtained a master’s degree with a specialization in Operations.

The course covered entrepreneurship and innovation management, dynamic programming, operations strategy, revenue management, uncertainty and risk management, consumer behavior, strategies, econometrics, statistics and data analysis, decision analysis, organizational behavior, inventory management, contract theory, game theory, queuing theory, forecasting and simulation .

In 2015, she obtained another master’s degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

The course included Operations and Analytics concentration: linear and nonlinear optimization, decision analysis, stochastic modeling, small and big data analytics, supply chain management, technical risk analysis, probabilistic analysis, corporate finance, machine learning, and data visualization.

Lorna mourns her father as a “frzealot of excellence, most empathetic and effective leader and statesman.”