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.
Puerto Rico Pharmacist License #4143Founder
Danister Quiñones, PhD
Global Organizational and Culture Expert
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.
- 2024 – present
Quality Excellence, LLC
Founder · Global GMP & Quality Culture Expert
- 2021 – 2024
AbbVie Biotechnology, LTD
QA Compliance Sr. Manager, Sterile Operations
- 2003 – 2021
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, LLC
Quality Assurance Manager · Regulatory Compliance Manager · Technology Transfer Leader · Global Technical Operations Leader
- 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.

