Leadership perspective
Leadership Resume
An executive-oriented career narrative centered on organizational scope, transformation, and team leadership.
Cross-functional leader who has grown from frontline operations and engineering into global product quality, regulatory, and safety leadership. Experience spans the product lifecycle, organizational transitions, remediation, operational continuity, and team capability-building across regulated industries.
Leadership Experience
A leadership-focused chronology emphasizing organizational scope, team development, remediation, and operational continuity.
Special assignment — transition, remediation, and operational continuity
Philips · July 2026–September 2026
Bothell, Washington, United States
- Supported remediation workstreams focused on evidence, systemic corrective actions, and sustainable operating controls.
- Built capability and transferred critical operational knowledge to successor leaders and cross-functional partners.
- Stabilized priority quality-system processes and supported continuity during a leadership transition.
Safety, Quality and Regulatory Leader
Philips · September 2021–June 2026
Bothell, Washington, United States
- Led the Quality and Regulatory groups for the Oral Healthcare business unit.
- Oversaw quality and regulatory support across design, development, manufacturing, launch, and post-market surveillance for global software and hardware products.
Head of Product Quality Engineering
Philips · August 2019–September 2021
Bothell, Washington, United States
- Led Product Quality Engineering support for software and hardware development projects.
- Supported Design History Files, design controls, and product risk management.
Sustaining Quality Assurance Manager
Philips · January 2018–July 2019
San Diego, California, United States
- Managed design changes across the existing product base.
- Oversaw post-market surveillance monitoring and reporting.
Quality Operations Manager
Philips · July 2015–December 2017
Costa Rica
- Led Quality Receiving Inspection, Quality Engineering, Quality In-Process Inspection, and Quality Final Inspection departments.
Quality Operations Supervisor
Volcano Corporation · August 2014–June 2015
Costa Rica
- Led Quality Engineering, Quality Receiving Inspection, and Quality Training departments.
Quality Compliance Supervisor
Volcano Corporation · August 2013–August 2014
Alajuela, Costa Rica
- Led compliance, documentation, and training groups.
- Served as an internal auditor for the Volcano Costa Rica site.
Quality Section Manager
Hospira · March 2013–August 2013
San José, Costa Rica
- Managed Global Documentation Control activities for the infusion-pump area.
- Served on the core team for global design-controls remediation and as a Hospira Global Internal Auditor.
Senior Quality Engineer
Hospira · August 2011–March 2013
San José, Costa Rica
- Held successive responsibilities in quality engineering supervision, quality analysis and continuous improvement, and documentation-center supervision.
- Supervised teams of engineers and technicians and served as a Hospira Costa Rica internal auditor.
Senior Validation Administrator
Hospira · January 2011–August 2011
San José, Costa Rica
- Supervised validation engineers and technicians and supported validation-system design and maintenance.
Lead Systems Support Engineer
Western Union · January 2008–March 2009
San José, Costa Rica
- Supervised five engineers responsible for implementing and supporting internal applications.
Education and Professional Development
Academic and professional development across engineering, information management, and quality systems.
- Master of Science in Information Management — University of Washington — March 2024–June 2026 — Graduated with a 4.0 GPA.
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering — Universidad Fidélitas — 2005–2008
- Electrical Engineering studies — Universidad de Costa Rica — 2001–2005 — Partial studies.
- Software Validation
- Integrating Risk Management into the Product Lifecycle
- Full-Stack Engineer Career Path
- AI Engineer Career Path
Leadership and Quality Domains
Leadership, quality, risk, regulatory, and lifecycle domains documented in the source profile.
Practices and domains
- Technical operations
- Product quality engineering
- Design controls
- Risk management
- Regulatory compliance
- Post-market surveillance
- Continuous improvement
- Systems integration
- Team leadership
Spoken languages
- English — Full professional proficiency
- Spanish — Native or bilingual proficiency
Selected Digital Initiatives
Selected digital products illustrating practical systems thinking and cross-functional problem solving.
IntakeWise
A responsive organizer for medication, supplements, vitamins, and custom intake schedules. Account holders can manage a private item catalog, review schedules in a calendar, and adjust or skip individual intakes.
- React
- Node.js
- Express
- PostgreSQL
- Vite
Nomadant Tech Store
An academic full-stack electronics storefront with GitHub OAuth sign-in and Stripe test-mode checkout. Its React storefront and Node.js REST API are deployed separately.
- React
- Vite
- Tailwind CSS
- Node.js
- Express
- PostgreSQL
- GitHub OAuth
- Stripe
Tara Hidalgo Artist Portfolio
A bilingual portfolio for creative workshops and event services, with facilitator profiles and an artwork gallery. Spanish is the default language, with English available throughout the site.
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Netlify
AI Trip Planner
A Streamlit itinerary planner using OpenAI tool calling, verified place data, optional travel-guide retrieval, interactive maps, and PDF or JSON export. Optional model and place services can fail independently of itinerary planning.
- Python
- OpenAI
- Streamlit
- PostgreSQL
- Geoapify
- PyDeck