Luis Tirado-Maldonado

Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company
Principal Project Manager
Luis Tirado-Maldonado is an experienced Engineering and Manufacturing Leader with over twenty-eight (28+) years in the fields of Reliability Engineering, Engineering & Maintenance, Project Management, Manufacturing Operations and Quality Engineering, in the Biopharma and Pharma industries with companies like Takeda, Shire, Baxalta, Baxter BioScience, Pfizer and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Engineering Management. Luis is a Certified Green Belt in Lean and Six Sigma, as well as Six Sigma Black Belt Trained. He is also a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional, Certified Reliability Leader and led a former organization to International Conference recognitions such as Uptime Magazine 2017 Best Reliability Engineering for Maintenance Program Award Winner and Emerson Exchange 2016 Reliability Program of the Year Award Finalist. Most recently, Luis managed several complex projects, including the technology transfer of a Cell Therapy Product to be manufactured inside an Isolator Barrier System. He is an active member of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering.