Gary Lee Pickens

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Riverside, CA 92506

Cellular: 951-***-****

Objective:

To attain full-time employment in a hospital environment utilizing my laboratory training

and 15 years experience.

Work Experience:

11/02 to Present Exam-One – Riverside, CA (Part-time only)

Medical Examiner/Phlebotomist

Duties consisted of doing medical exams for insurance companies

(performing EKG, taking blood pressure, pulse, height, weight,

drawing blood, and collecting urine specimen).

1/11 to 8/2013 Corona Regional Medical Center (Per-Diem)

Laboratory Assistant/Phlebotomist

Working In-house patients, Emergency Room and doing AM rounds.

Working PM shifts and graveyard shifts.

6/05 to 9/09 San Antonio Community Hospital – Upland, CA

Laboratory Assistant Technician

Phlebotomist

Working in-house Patients and Emergency Room, doing Am

Rounds, drawing blood for Intensive Care Unit, Coronary Care Unit,

Pediatrics, and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

CP = Central Processing/Micro

CP: Duties: Check printers/paper, call up lists for night, check time

draw, put away blood, monitor breaks and lunches, file

paperwork/send daily reports to floor, process lab order from united

into computer, do am draw count.

Micro: Set up any stat micro, make slides and stain them, clean

under the hood/sign charts, load blood culture into machine.

9/04 to 6/05 Kindred Hospital – Ontario, CA

Phlebotomist

Duties consisted of drawing blood, mainly for am rounds (04:00am

to 08:00 AM). This is an Intensive Care Hospital.

6/99 to 7/04 Kaiser Hospital – Fontana, CA

Phlebotomist

Hospital experience: working inpatients and outpatients, doing

rounds, drawing blood for Neonte Intensive care unit, Coronary care

unit, Intensive care unit, Pediatrics, Geriatrics, Emergency room.

Blood Bank experience: working with cancer patients, dialysis

patients, rehabilitation patients, and at a number of Kaiser’s outside

draw stations.

5/99 to 12/99 Parkview Hospital – Riverside, CA

Phlebotomist

Duties consisted of completing a morning route which included

drawing blood and collecting other specimens (from nursing homes,

convalescent hospitals, and retirement centers) and processing them

in the hospital laboratory.

1/97 to 4/99 American Forensic Nurses – Riverside, CA

Blood Nurse/Phlebotomist

Worked as a mobile phlebotomist, drawing blood at police stations,

prisons, hospital emergency rooms, and accident scenes.

8/97 to 9/98 Biopath Clinical Laboratories Inc. – Van Nuys, CA

Phlebotomist

Duties consisted of completing a morning route to nursing homes,

convalescent hospitals, and retirement centers, where I collected

blood and other specimens, took them to a drop area, and STAT test

to a local hospital.

8/96 to 2/99 Lab Corp. of America – Riverside, CA

Phlebotomist/Patient Service Technician/Front Desk Clerk

Phlebotomist: Performed phlebotomy procedure (Syringe Draw and

Butterfly Vacutainer), processed all blood specimens (including

frozen specimens) for pick-up and transport by courier to the main

laboratory.

Patient Service Technician: worked as a float PST servicing twenty-

two draw stations in the Inland Valley area.

Front Desk Clerk: Collected patient insurance information,

addressed client questions regarding lab work and/or specimens

collected at draw stations, and answered telephones.

9/95 to 8/96 UNILAB – Hemet, CA

Phlebotomist/Clerk

Phlebotomist: Performed phlebotomy procedures, using all

techniques as necessary (Syringe Draw and Butterfly Vacutainer),

processed all blood specimens (including frozen specimens) for

pick-up and transport by courier to the main laboratory.

Clerk: Accepted doctor’s orders from patients, formed orders into

Unilab Requisition (test and coding), collected all insurance

answered phones, addressed client questions regarding lab work

and/or specimens collected at the draw stations.

Special Responsibilities/Duties: Checked individual tubes (in

phlebotomy drawer, tray, or phlebotomy area) and unopened boxes

for expiration dates and discarded all expired tubes or collection

materials. Wrote the date of receipt on all boxed tubes as received,

rotated stock, informed suppliers (Logistics) of any tubes or boxes of

tubes due to expire within one month of delivery, and informed other

employees in the facility of an abundance of tubes due to expire in

the near future.

2/95 to 1/97 Entrepreneur Personal Service – Riverside, CA

Phlebotomist

Worked as a “mobile” Phlebotomist at police stations, prisons,

hospital emergency rooms, and accident scenes.

6/94 to 9/94 Yorba Park Medical Group, INC. – Orange, CA

Assistant Medical Laboratory Technician

Responsibilities included drawing blood, collecting urine and other

specimens, conducting urine and serum pregnancy testing,

performing some urine cultures and strep screenings, labeling

specimens, centrifuging blood and urine after processing it, logging

in/out PAPS and Biopsy, filing, and computer inputting.

*special equipment used Blood Centrifuge, Urine Centrifuge,

Spectrum 2000 (Enzyme Analyzer), INDC Analyzer (Hormones),

and TDX Analyzer (Drugs).

5/94 to 6/94 Long Beach Compressive Health Center – Long Beach, CA

Phlebotomist Technician

Duties consisted of inputting patient information into the computer,

drawing blood, collecting urine specimens, labeling and processing

specimens, and sending them out to laboratories.

4/80 to 7/93 ROHR Industries, INC. – Riverside, CA

Supervisor/Assembler

Worked as a Composite Fabricator and Adhesive Bond Fabricator,

worked with Autoclaves, and bagging area. Drills, surface grinders,

and saws are some of the shop equipment I used. Also I worked

Research and Development for 4 years on new projects.

Educational Background

1/94 to 8/94 ILA Polytechnic Institutes – Orange, CA

Medical Laboratory Assistant – Diploma and Venipuncture

Certificate

Through study of Hematology, Chemistry, Microbiology, Urinalysis,

and Phlebotomy. Practicum training included actual laboratory

environment and equipment familiarization.

9/78 to 6/80 University of California, Riverside – Riverside, CA

Major: Sociology

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