Marie B. Teixeira is founder and principal consultant for QA/RA Compliance Connection, Inc., Odessa, Florida, USA. She holds a BS from University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA and is an American Society for Quality member, ASQ-certified quality manager and engineer, and RABQSA principle auditor. Previously she served as quality engineer at Raytheon, Norwood, Massachusetts, USA; GTE Government Systems, Needham Heights, Massachusetts, USA; and Sparton Electronics, Brooksville, Florida, USA; as well as director of quality assurance and regulatory affairs at Bioderm, Inc., Tampa Bay, Florida, USA and quality systems manager for regulatory affairs at Smith & Nephew, Largo, Florida, USA.