Marie B. Teixeira is the founder and principal consultant for QA/RA Compliance Connection, Inc. in Odessa, Florida. QARACC is a world-class consulting company providing expert management and guidance for its clients in all aspects of global quality management and regulatory affairs. Under her direction and guidance, her clients have received ISO 9001, ISO 13485, CE and MDSAP certification and obtained regulatory clearance for their medical devices internationally.

Before beginning this venture, she was Director of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs at Bioderm, Inc., a start-up medical device company in the Tampa Bay Florida area where she designed, directed and implemented the policies and procedures that established this company’s compliance with global regulatory requirements.

Ms. Teixeira was also Quality Systems Manager for Regulatory Affairs at Smith & Nephew’s Wound Management Division in Largo, Florida. In addition to directing the planning, development and implementation of Smith & Nephew’s ISO 13485, FDA GMP, and MDD 93/42/EEC regulatory efforts, she implemented and directed the company’s internal audit program and management review system. It was her direction and guidance that allowed Smith & Nephew’s Wound Management Division to achieve ISO certification in less than a year, as well as their MDD certification one year later.

Ms. Teixeira began her career as a Quality Engineer for Raytheon, GTE Government Systems and Sparton Electronics. During her tenure at these companies she was responsible for establishing and implementing quality assurance programs and procedures, leading supplier and customer audits, developing and performing quality system and auditor training, initiating and managing corrective actions, and developing and implementing supplier certification programs. During her tenure at Sparton, she managed the company through its initial ISO certification and subsequent surveillance audits.

Marie Teixeira holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is a member of the American Society for Quality. Ms. Teixeira is an ASQ Certified Quality Manager and Quality Engineer and an Exemplar Global Principal Auditor. Ms. Teixeira was also an active member of an international task force CEN/TC257/SC-DETG10 - whose objective was to standardize medical device nomenclature. Ms. Teixeira recently authored her third edition of the book titled "Design Controls for the Medical Device Industry". Ms. Teixeira has also published numerous quality system related CD-ROM training modules and related informational handbooks and has conducted numerous quality system training seminars.