Pharmacy Pharmacist

Dr. Bonita W. Alvarez

***** ******** ***** ** • Fort Worth, TX 76179

808-***-**** • **********@*****.***

Objective: Seeking a position as a Doctor of Pharmacy

Professional Summary:

Solutions-focused Pharmacist with 12 years of experience in diverse healthcare settings; possess outstanding leadership skills, tested and proven in cross-cultural environments with the ability to quickly and effectively adept to a broad spectrum of challenges. Advanced skills in all operations of pharmacy to include; inpatient, outpatient, community and pharmacy logistics. Demonstrated the ability to focus on excellence in work performance, safe and expert pharmaceutical customer care. Qualifications include:

• Pharmacy Practice Ethics • Maintain Inventory Control • Pharmacy Informatics

• Personnel Management • Medication Compounding • Pharmacy Logistics

• Accurately Dispense Medication • Verify and Review prescriptions • Maintain patient records

Pharmacy License, GA: RPH023337 (Exp. 12/20/22), TX: 58085 (Exp. 08/31/2022)

Experience:

WALMART STORES, INC (Salary)

4/2018 – 10/2018: – Walmart #2612 – El Paso Texas, Market 505

Supervisor: Last Tiera Proctor may be contacted. 585-***-****)

6/25/2016 – 08/2017: El Paso, Texas Market 581

Staff Pharmacist (Hourly), 08/2017- 04/27/2018 - Fort Worth, Texas Market 44

• Staff Pharmacist dispensing over nearly 3000 prescriptions weekly. Handle and resolved customer issues and offer counsel to customers receiving prescriptions and over-the-counter medications.

• Medication Management Therapy representative providing critical medication adherence education to customers and determining the root causes analysis to provide professional medication advice. Provide optimal immunizations to customers according to federal and state law. Serve as Pharmacy proctor for Health and Wellness Day for customers, while checking Blood Cholesterol, Blood Glucose and Blood Pressure and giving professional advice on their results. Provide professional options and clinical advice according to the Walmart Opioid Stewardship program, in order to prevent misuse and overdose of opioid prescription medications.

Doctor of Pharmacy, O-3, 2009

United States Army

Supervisor: Major Tracy Morning, 770-***-**** may be contacted.

Clearance: Department of Homeland Security, Secret Clearance, November 2009- July 2016

• Managed a $16M medication budget for all pharmacy activities for both the Post Exchange and Troop Medical Clinic that safely and expertly filled roughly 640K prescriptions yearly for 58K beneficiaries.

• Directed the pharmaceutical care for a 290-bed Tertiary Medical Center with 18 inpatient wards, safely serving over 300K beneficiaries. Supervised inpatient, critical care and emergency pharmacy services.

• Dispensed over 1200 sterile products, and 1500-unit doses daily safely with expert pharmaceutical care. Managed one officer, 15 pharmacists, and 22 pharmacy technicians and provided leadership, mentorship, and directly trained the work efforts of new pharmacists resulting in a 20% decreased error rate

Managed prior authorizations for specialized medications in hospital clinical settings based on

patients specialized pharmaceutical needs. Collaborated with doctors and other health care professional to identify, assess and review medical data and necessity for prior approval or denial of medications. Coordinate with patient’s health care insurance to manage approval, procurement and support for prior authorization medications.

Pharmacy Manager, 10/2007 - 10/2009

WALMART STORES, INC

• Directed and managed all pharmacy functions of a single pharmacy store located within Wal-Mart. Managed billing, verified insurance and Medicaid coverage, and processed prescription transactions.

• Oversaw a team of associates and one pharmacist and trained them in proper customer service. Dedicated workflow excellence, which resulted in increasing generic prescription sales in 2009 and awarded a bonus of $11K for my job performance in 2009.

Pharmacist in Charge 09/2006 – 09/2007

Eckerd Pharmacy,

• Supervised the work completed by Pharmacy Technicians and support staff. Provided all pharmacy services within federal and state laws that resulted in an increased prescription count in 2007 and awarded a 1.5K bonus for my job performance in 2006.

Education:

Doctor of Pharmacy: South University School of Pharmacy, Savannah, Georgia, 6/2006

Master of Arts in Management and Leadership: Webster University, St. Louis, MO, 8/2014

Pharmacy Based Immunization Certified, University of Houston, TX, 3/2016

Certificate in Pharmacy Technology: Fayetteville Technical Community College, Fayetteville, NC 8/1995

Associate of Arts: University of Maryland, Vicenza, Italy, 5/1993

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