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Elisa  Orellana

Elisa Orellana

Project Manager
Oakland,CA

Summary

Health tech is hard. Clinical teams are stretched, compliance requirements are unforgiving, and most projects take twice as long as they should.

I've spent six years fixing that at Vida Health: integrating AI into clinical workflows to eliminate 700+ person-hours of manual work per month, migrating EMR systems, ensuring FDA compliance, and keeping cross-functional teams moving when everything was ambiguous and the margin for error was zero.

Before that, I spent a decade translating and localizing content for global brands including Google, Netflix, and Nike — which is where I learned firsthand what great localization actually requires.

I'm a certified PMP with a background in clinical operations, health-tech product management, and regulated environments. I know how to own a project end to end in a space where "we'll figure it out later" isn't an option.

Open to project and product management roles in healthcare IT, health-tech, or localization program management.

📩 elisa.orellana.huhn@gmail.com

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
3
3
Certificates
2
2
Languages
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Certification

Agile MBA (The Job Hackers)

Skills

Project Management

Program Management

Healthcare IT

Product Management

Agile Project Management

HIPAA Compliance

Clinical Operations

Localization

Electronic Medical Records (EMR)

Stakeholder Management

Scrum

Cross-functional Team Leadership

Translation Management Systems

Risk Management

Product Lifecycle Management

Prompt Engineering

Generative AI

WCAG

Work History

Product Manager, Provider Experience

Vida Health
04.2025 - 02.2026

• Eliminated 700+ person-hours per month of manual clinical work by leading the integration of 2 commercial AI solutions into Vida's EMR and clinical workflows, directly reducing HIPAA risk across the organization.
• Drove Vida's EMR migration to Canvas Medical by delivering a complete project plan, milestones, and dependency map for 100 clinicians, and launching automated lab result ingestion with Labcorp and Quest.
• Ensured 100% FDA compliance across 5 US states by translating obesity-medication legal requirements into clear, actionable physician workflows, reducing friction at the point of care for patients and providers.

Sr. Localization & Special Projects Manager

Vida Health
04.2024 - 04.2025

• Drove ~70% faster delivery of localized content by integrating LLM workflows into the TMS, enabling near-simultaneous Spanish launches that helped the Sales team secure 30+ new payer contracts.
• Led 15+ cross-functional mobile app projects across patient messaging, education, and remote monitoring — reducing business and patient risk through structured, on-time delivery.
• Reduced content defects by ~90% by implementing CMS templates and QA governance processes, raising the quality bar across all patient-facing programs.

Sr. Localization Manager

Vida Health
04.2020 - 04.2024

• Led the implementation of 4 new clinical programs that drove 150% revenue growth, coordinating cross-functional roadmaps, timelines, and risks to deliver every launch on time.
• Cut localization time and errors for 8+ content streams by building multilingual style guides, glossaries, and translation memories from scratch, improving consistency across every launch.
• Overhauled 150+ bilingual multimedia assets to WCAG 2.2 AA standards, improving accessibility and regulatory readiness for health plan and enterprise customers.

Freelance Translator & Localization Project Manage

Self-employed
06.2005 - 08.2020

• Delivered translation, localization, and LQA services for 15+ global clients including Google, Netflix, Nike, and Costco, maintaining 100% on-time delivery across high-volume, time-critical projects.
• Localized in-game text and UI for WayForward titles including Shantae and Spidersaurs, and performed in-build LQA playthroughs and bug tracking to ensure release-ready quality.
• Built glossaries, style guides, and terminology frameworks for clients across healthcare, marketing, legal, and gaming, establishing linguistic consistency at scale.

Localization Engineer I

Blizzard Entertainment
08.2008 - 10.2009

• Contributed to in-game text and UI localization for AAA titles including World of Warcraft and StarCraft II, delivering Spanish translations for a global player base.
• Collaborated directly with QA teams to review, triage, and resolve localization bugs across Spanish builds, ensuring submission-ready quality for global releases.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Translation & Interpretation

Universidad Autónoma De Madrid
Madrid, Spain
09.2003 - 06.2008

Work Availability

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Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Project Management Professional

06-2026

Certified Scrum Product Owner® - ScrumAlliance

03-2026

Agile MBA (The Job Hackers)

04-2025

Product Manager, Provider Experience

Vida Health
04.2025 - 02.2026

Sr. Localization & Special Projects Manager

Vida Health
04.2024 - 04.2025

Sr. Localization Manager

Vida Health
04.2020 - 04.2024

Localization Engineer I

Blizzard Entertainment
08.2008 - 10.2009

Freelance Translator & Localization Project Manage

Self-employed
06.2005 - 08.2020

Bachelor of Arts - Translation & Interpretation

Universidad Autónoma De Madrid
09.2003 - 06.2008
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