Profile
Strategist who works like a designer, turning ambiguous problems into roadmaps people can act on. Most recently designing an enterprise innovation tool for Bayer, built from ~80 stakeholder interviews; before that, five years co-founding and bootstrapping a healthcare R&D firm to 90% YoY growth and 300+ institutions. Two granted patents, a design background, and an M.S. in Strategic Design & Management in progress at Parsons.
Experience
Parsons School of Design · Bayer
Innovation Consultant — External Engagement Studio
New York City, USA
Jan 2026 — May 2026
- Designed an enterprise innovation tool for Bayer, the "Value System Tracker" (5 modules), translating innovation-sprint outputs into measurable business value
- Built it on ~80 stakeholder interviews pooled across the studio's four research teams, synthesized into 5 themes and 7 personas
- Ran agile delivery (sprint cycles, user stories, backlog) and used AI-assisted synthesis to prototype the dashboards, validated across 4 testing rounds
- Aligned senior stakeholders throughout and mapped the organizational gaps between sprint and implementation
Health Engineering Design
Chief Design Officer & Co-Founder
Bogotá, Colombia
2020 — 2025
- Co-founded and bootstrapped a healthcare R&D firm, setting the strategy and operating structure behind a team of 8 and 100+ projects
- Grew revenue year over year, expanding across LATAM and the U.S. to reach leading hospitals, universities, and orthopedic societies
- Developed two patented medical devices (AcetGard, SkinGO): granted patents, named inventor
- Won and delivered client engagements for Abbott, Boston Scientific, and NuVasive, alongside leading hospitals and universities
- Set up the R&D pipeline and in-house manufacturing, cutting development cycles 33% and iteration time 42%
- Built the frameworks and pipelines that kept execution consistent as the company scaled
Independent Consulting
Industrial Designer · UX Research
Remote
2017 — 2020
Independent consulting and design work and collaborations spanning medical devices, assistive technology, and UX research.
- Partnered for a year with Fernando Garcia, an Electrical & Biomedical Engineering M.S. candidate, on TITAN, his master's thesis: a motor-driven prosthetic hand, contributing the industrial design and mechanical structuring behind the articulated fingers, actuation system, and forearm socket, from concept to a working 3D-printed prototype
- Co-led a workshop on healthcare innovation and design thinking for faculty and students at Universidad César Vallejo (150,000+ students), fostering interdisciplinary approaches to solving healthcare challenges
- Developed detailed 3D modeling and instructional animations for two hip surgery instruments at Innomed Inc. (Savannah, GA), enhancing surgical training and product understanding
- Generated actionable UX insights through design thinking to improve Activalo, a real-time inventory tracking interface, for Lesiga (Colombian asset management software company)
Education
The New School — Parsons
M.S. Strategic Design & Management
Merit Scholarship Recipient
New York City, USA
2025 — 2027
Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano
B.S. Industrial Design
Bogotá, Colombia
2018
Patents
AcetGard
Surgical Device, Infection Prevention in Prosthetic Implantation
CO2021015180A1 · 2025
SkinGO
Burn Care Device
WO2022043956A1 · 2022
Additional
D1 collegiate roller hockey athlete and member of Colombia's National Ice Hockey Team. Competed in 8 international tournaments and two years of professional inline hockey.