Leonel A. Romero Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

As an Entrepreneurship & Innovation Partner at Texas Children's Hospital, I play a pivotal role in enriching the innovation ecosystem, focusing on the design and development of health tech products and solutions. My expertise lies in identifying and qualifying products for enterprise fit, ensuring they align with our cultural, technoloical and organizational landscape. I connect and collaborate with executives, clinical and operational leaders, technologists, data scientists and innovators to develop solutions that advance the future of health-tech, biomedical devices and healthcare services delivery.

Las Cruces, New Mexico, Us

Leading Pawn BeGone's creative direction on business strategy, product design and service innovation. Actively connecting Pawn BeGone with local innovators, creatives, entrepreneurs, business owners and scholars to continue growing its services and substantiate them with applied therapeutic science, academic research, and business acumen so that we can spark truly innovative ways to educate, heal and learn with chess and other modes of play therapy.

El Paso, Texas, Us

As part of the Professional Advisory & Resource Network, I am dedicated to fostering cross-collaboration between the Innovation Center at The Medical Center of the Americas Foundation and key partnering organizations in the Borderplex Region. My role focuses on establishing a new operational model and entrepreneurial support services to drive the growth of budding startups through strategic support and multidisciplinary engagement.

Burbank, Ca, Us

Advised executive leaders at TWDC on organizational strategy and design for the Consumer Products, Games, and Publishing (CPGP) segment as the company underwent major cultural transformations. Actively led a segment-wide effort to determine future-state organizational structures, new business process design, and related change management initiatives to successfully align 12 lines of businesses to a newly-established global operating model.

Dublin 2, Ie

Advised Fortune 500 clients on purpose-driven innovation and strategic transformation. Created bespoke services and sessions to help clients uncover rich insights about their organization's health and acuity to cultural and technological innovation. Having led the Client Experience Design team at Accenture's Houston Innovation Hub, I then went on to establish an early-operating model for a satellite innovation center in Los Angeles, orbiting Accenture's Flagship Innovation Hub in San Francisco. Here, I had the unique opportunity to collaborate with other Accenture industry experts, advisors, business strategists, developers, designers, as well as ecosystem partners like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Salesforce, to bring new perspectives, organizational strategies and momentum to a wave of global businesses that were deeply impacted by the pandemic.

Dublin 2, Ie

Led the Client Experience Design team at Accenture's first-of-its-kind Innovation Hub in Houston Texas. Studied contemporary cultural and technological innovations to bring to bear new concepts and business ideas wrapped into interactive experiences. I would pitch and showcase these highly-curated experiences to Fortune 500 clients to spark new collaborative ventures.

Dublin 2, Ie

Analyzed current state business operations and system architecture to successfully execute a cutover strategy upon divestment of two major energy companies. Delivered a long-term data strategy refreshing the client’s legacy systems to modern global platforms and completed an impact analysis demonstrating how the US downstream retail business may be affected.Quickly established myself as a subject-matter expert on the transformation of fuels, sales and marketing applications for one of the world's largest fuel retailer.

New Haven, Ct, Us

The Emerging Leaders Program: Finance Leadership across Sectors was designed to foster the careers of promising professionals by providing an understanding of the universal challenges faced by organizations today. Learned directly from top Yale School of Management faculty and professionals about how to leverage different management tools and financial instruments to gain insights into emerging tech and its commercialization in young economies.

Austin, Tx, Us

Researched the areas of musculoskeletal, sport biomechanics and neuromotor control of human movement. Main research integrated musculoskeletal modeling, computer simulation and experimental analysis techniques to analyze various patient populations including lower-limb amputees and those with post-stroke hemiparesis. Additional research was directed at optimizing orthotic and prosthetic designs to enhance performance using advanced additive manufacturing techniques.Led a biomechanics project focused in lower limb prosthetic design using low-cost materials. Investigated methods to make designs affordable and easily manufactured in developing countries. Partnered with LIMBS International who distributes prosthetic solutions in more than 5 countries

Austin, Tx, Us

Rehabilitation With Insight from Robotics and Engineering (REWIRE). The REWIRE lab focuses on developing technology that helps characterize the impaired sensorimotor system and transform that knowledge into novel, more effective interventions after neurological injury.Established ground work for an IMU-based gait measurement system that records gait kinematics. Evaluated the system by comparing it to commercial IMUs & traditional motion capture.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Medical Instrumentation

Business & Entrepreneurship Innovation Certification