Luis Torres
**** ***** ****** ******, ***.***, Port St. Lucie, Fla 34952
Email: ***********@*****.***
Objective
To continue in the medical field career as an operating room technician
Experience
St.Lucie Medical Center-
(Orthopedic and Spine Institute)-Port St.Lucie, Fla 34952 12/4/17-present
Certified Surgical Technologist
Specialized in total joint surgery of hips, knees and shoulders as well as arthroscopic surgery of such as well.
Trained on Mako and Davinci XI robotic surgical procedures.
System applications for total joint surgical procedures include Stryker, Djo, Microport, Biomed and Zimmer,
St.Barnabas Hospital-Bronx, NY 10547 7/26/12- 8/31/17
Operating Room Technician for Level 1 Trauma
Specialize and assist in Neurosurgical, Orthopedic, Vascular, Podiatry, Plastics, General, and OB/GYN procedures.
Assist in Neurosurgical procedures such as Laminectomies, spinal fusion, cervical anterior fusions, craniotomies, and Ventricular-Peritoneal shunts.
Assist in Orthopedic procedures such as ORIF for tibia and femur, tibia rodding, Patella and shoulder arthroscopy, total hip and knee joint replacement, and hernia arthroplasty.
Assisted in Vascular procedures such as AV fistulas,angiograms, angioplasty, femoral bypass, carotid aneurysm repair, amputation above knee amputation and bilateral knee amputation
Assisted in Podiatric procedures such as plantar fasciotomy, bunionectomy, hammer toe repair, and ORIF of ankle
Assisted in Plastic surgeries such as breast reduction and augmentation, lipo suction, trigger finger release, ORIF of hand and distal radius, abdominoplasty, and ganglion cyst removal
Assisted with General surgical procedures such as exploratory laparotomy, colon resection, cholecystectomy, appendectomy, and hernia repair
Assisted with OB/GYN procedures such as suction D&C, hysteroscopy, hysterectomy, tubal ligation
Chase Media Group-Yorktown Heights,NY. 8/06/07-8/10/2011
Machine Operator
Set up equipment, maintain and repair
Inventory control, shipping and receiving.
Data entry of client services online.
St. Johns Associates Inc.- Bronx, NY 1/2003-3/2007 Machine Operator
Set up and run Ink Jet equipment
Run wafer sealer
Night shift supervisor
Ross Mailing Services-Elmsford, NY 6/2001-12/2002
Machine Operator
Fork lift driver
Insert Machine operator
Ink jet machine operator
Yonkers General Hospital- 2Park Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10703 7/1983- 5/1985:
Operating Room Surgical Technician
General surgery cases only
Sterilization of instruments.
Kaiser Hospital-San Francisco,California 1982-1983:
Operating Room Surgical Technician via agency
Certifications
CST certified since 10/18/17
Education
Naval Academy
The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Oakland,California 10/1980-5/01/1981
Operating Room Technician
Certificate of training, Navy hearing conservation techniques completed: 4/07/1980
Emergency medical services program completed: 8/17/1979
Basic Hospital corps school completed: 8/17/1979.
Enter Naval academy :01/1979
Gorton High School- Shonnard Place, Yonkers, NY 10703 9/1975-6/1978
High School Graduate
References: Available upon request.