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Quality Excellence, LLC

About

Quality Excellence brings a rare blend of business, technical and human acumen to the same table: a pharmacist who ran quality systems inside global manufacturers, with a doctorate in how organizations actually behave.

Danister Quiñones, PhD, founder of Quality Excellence, LLCPuerto Rico Pharmacist License #4143

Founder

Danister Quiñones, PhD

Danister Quiñones spent eighteen years at Pfizer and three at AbbVie before advising plants from the outside. Inside those operations she owned the systems regulators ask about first — CAPA, complaints, quality risk management, change control and internal audits — and led technology transfers, commissioning and qualification, and regulatory inspection readiness for FDA and global authorities.

Her practice runs on a principle she calls Competitive Compliance: quality and human systems must be simple, targeted and workable — compliant at a standard that holds under inspection, without added complexity that becomes a burden to the people who follow it or an obstacle to production.

The doctorate is not decoration. Most quality systems fail where people work around them, and that failure is measurable. Aligning how an organization behaves with what its procedures say is the difference between a system that passes an inspection and one that holds up between inspections.

The practice covers small and large molecules, sterile and solid dosage operations, and serves manufacturers, healthcare providers, food, cosmetics and compounding pharmacy operations. Support is offered in English and Spanish.

Education

  • PhD in Organization and Management, major in Human Resource Management — Capella University
  • MS in Pharmaceutical Sciences, major in Industrial Pharmacy — University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus
  • BS in Pharmaceutical Sciences — University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus

Professional standing

  • President of the Board of Directors — Colegio de Farmacéuticos de Puerto Rico · four years serving the pharmacy profession
  • Member — ASQ, ISPE and RAPS
  • Member — Delta Mu Delta Honor Society in Business

Languages

Support is offered in English and Spanish.

Track record

35 years inside regulated manufacturing.

  1. 2024 – present

    Quality Excellence, LLC

    Founder · Global GMP & Quality Culture Expert

  2. 2021 – 2024

    AbbVie Biotechnology, LTD

    QA Compliance Sr. Manager, Sterile Operations

  3. 2003 – 2021

    Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, LLC

    Quality Assurance Manager · Regulatory Compliance Manager · Technology Transfer Leader · Global Technical Operations Leader

  4. 1991 – 2002

    Aventis Pharma

    Process Improvement Pharmacist · Project Leader

Scope of work

What she has actually been responsible for.

  • Site readiness and FDA approval for API and drug product facilities, utilities and manufacturing process on a new-product programme.

  • Regulatory compliance lead for new product introductions and FDA and global market approvals.

  • System owner for CAPA, complaints, quality risk management, change control and internal audits.

  • Technology transfer of co-licensed small-molecule drug substance and drug product.

  • Commissioning and qualification of facilities, utilities and equipment.

  • Regional learning system built and deployed across Puerto Rico, the US and LATAM.

Is your site ready for the next inspection?

Tell us what you are facing — an upcoming inspection, a gap assessment, a remediation plan — and you will get a concrete route back.

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