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.