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Maria D. Craig, MBA, PMP, LSSBB

Managing Director





Maria Craig is an Executive and Business Coach, a Certified Change Practitioner, and a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt through Merck Sigma currently serving a number of contracts in the U.S. and Europe. Maria has been to 27 countries, fluent in Spanish, English, Dutch (A1) and French (A1) level, and brings an international perspective to dealing with different personalities and leadership styles in any corporation. Maria has worked in medium-sized to Fortune 500 companies.

Maria earned an MBA degree from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School in Chapel Hill, NC. She also received a BS degree in Industrial Engineering Management from Elizabethtown College. She is a Certified Change Practitioner (Prosci), MBTI Certified and FIRO-B, FIRO Business Certified (The Myers-Briggs Company), Assessment Suite Certified (Center for Creative Leadership: Benchmarks 360 for Managers and Executives, Skillscope, Learning Agility), Hogan Assessments, Korn Ferry 360 Feedback, Workplace Big Five Profile WB5P and she is an authorized DiSC Partner. Maria is also a Certified Professional and Business Coach through NC State University and the Business Coach Institute and an active Coach at International Coach Federation (ICF).

Her leadership and operational experience spans over 15 years of industry and consulting and coaching experience in multiple industries: food, apparel, glass, thread, and pharmaceuticals manufacturing, packaging and distribution, engineering, utility, professional services, banking, education, gambling, and other corporate environments where the focus is strategy, operations, process improvement, change management, and executive coaching.

Maria has held executive leadership positions in industry where she has led improvements in manufacturing and utilities exceeding $50M USD in USDA and FDA manufacturing facilities, and other highly regulated environments. She brings a breadth of operational and organizational excellence crafting growth and sustainability strategies and project execution, training, and leadership coaching. Maria Craig received her TPS training, and Operational Excellence certification as a Six Sigma Green Belt at Merck Sharp & Dohme (Merck Sigma) and her Lean Six Sigma Certificate through Villanova University.

She has managed budgets over $10M USD and had client oversight exceeding 3000 people across different domestic geographic regions and operational jurisdictions in traditional and matrix organizations (union and non-union). She has coached leaders in the C-suite for companies with revenue exceeding $4B USD (CFO, SVPs, VPs, Directors and Senior Managers).

As leader of teams of Black Belts and Master Black Belts, she has developed the technical and behavioral capability of numerous internal lean practitioners and project managers at her former clients National Grid US, American and Efird, Caito Foods (Spartan Nash), The Oneida Group, Greencore USA, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Array Marketing, Deutsche Post (DHL Supply Chain), and has trained over 500 people in different lean and six sigma tools and methodology across the U.S., Canada, and Europe.



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Jose Velazquez, B.S., LSSBB, PMP



Senior Management Consultant (NOAM, LATAM)
Consulting Division



Jose Velazquez is the Senior Management Consultant and Lean Transformation Coach for our NOAM and LATAM regions, with extensive experience in ​​ Continuous Improvement and Industrial Engineering. Jose is effective in deploying tactical plans, aimed to establish robust manufacturing systems that allows value-creation to new and existing processes and products. Jose meets medium-term to long-term business objectives, ensuring competitiveness and profitability of the company.


Jose develops and implements projects and programs using MTM and BTIs (Time and Motion Studies) analysis in assembly lines and transformation in multiple industries. Jose has an ability and agility to detect opportunity areas, solid knowledge, and responsibility to generate and manage operational excellence systems, negotiation skills, persuasion, and perception, with a sense of urgency, proactive, development of high-performance and multi- disciplinary work teams, assertive in decision making, effective communication skills and performance for achieving high levels of service.


Jose has a high sense of integrity aimed at total customer satisfaction, can work under pressure, and maintaining a diplomatic approach to stakeholder engagement. He is flexible, approachable and has world experience in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, and Germany.




Manuel Garcia, A.S.



Web Developer and Solutions Architect
Consulting Division



Manuel Garcia is the Software Developer and Solutions Architect at Prisma International Corporation and Prisma international corporation SAS.


Manuel is responsible for Websites hosting services, design, programming updates, IT and systems vendor management and applications development for Android and iOS.


Manuel oversees some Data transfers (intra-systems) for the Language Access Service provider. Manuel has degree as a Software Design and Mobile Applications Development from CBN (Corporación Bolivariana del Norte) awarded in Santa Marta, Colombia in 2021 and he is currently enrolled in Platzi development courses.



Paula Perez, B.S.



Marketing and Business Support Specialist
Consulting Division



Paula Perez is a Bilingual Support Specialist at Prisma International Corporation and Prisma International Corporation SAS based out in the LATAM region.


Paula is in her sophomore year pursuing a degree in Finance and International Business at the Universidad Tecnológica de Bolivar in Cartagena, Colombia.


Paula is fluent in Spanish and English and she supports the language division operations, sourcing and recruitment, and dispatch services at the interpreting agency in the U.S.


Paula has earned her degree in Sales and Marketing from SENA (Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje). She handles all social media marketing, publications, and outreach.



Marina Garcia, B.S.



Project and Program Manager
Consulting Division



Marina is the Project and Program Manager for Prisma International Corporation and International Corporation SAS.


Marina earned her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at University of Magdalena in Santa Marta, Colombia. She is currently pursuing a J.D. in Law at Sergio Arboleda University.


Marina handles the IT and Agile and project management work including the migration of our internal manual processes into an automated Interpreter Intelligence database, to support lean practices in the language division.


Marina uses Waterfall and Agile project management frameworks to guarantee work delivery on time, in full, and to the quality standards internally and externally.



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