SUMMARY:

Licensed Medical Technologist with ** years of Hospital related experience, 15 of which was spent working in Microbiology Laboratory, and 5 were spent supporting a multi-campus academic Hospital’s Laboratory information systems.

EDUCATION & TRAINING :

March 2006-December 2006 Kaplan University-School of Information Technology

Information Technology Pathway Certificate

Grade Point Average: 3.17

February 1986-December 1987 Queens College of the City University of New York

Graduate Student in the Biological Sciences

January 1984-January 1986 St. John’s University

Master of Science in Biology

Grade Point Average: 3.2

February 1979-June 1983 York College of the City University of New York

Bachelor of Science in Biology

SafeTrace Tx Tables Education, and System Functions Education (2010), Cerner Millennium Pathnet Gen Lab, Building and Maintaining Core, Charge Services Maintenance, Outreach Services Database Build, Microbiology, Helix, Clinical Reporting, Beginners Course on CCL (2010), Olympus (2012)

LICENSES:

New York State Licensed Clinical Laboratory Medical Technologist - 2007

EXPERIENCE

Clinical Laboratory Technologist

Bellevue Hospital Center (Winston Staffing), New York, NY, January 2016 to Present

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Processing bacteriological specimens.

Identify and confirm Id and susceptibility of various bacteria via Vitek-2 and/or API when needed.

Identify bacterial cultures to genus and species.

Processing positive blood cultures and identifying to genus and species. Reporting results to physician.

Responsible for loading new blood cultures and unloading negative cultures.

Responsible for taking temperatures of all incubators, refrigerators, freezers, room temperatures and heat blocks in various rooms.

Signing and out on QC sheets at assigned stations.

Running stat tests to their completion (Influenza testing, Strep A, MRSA detection, Meningitis testing and GBS testing) via PCR.

Answering phone calls to physicians.

Clinical Laboratory Technologist

NYC Department of Health-Public Health Laboratories, New York, NY, November 2014 to December 2015

Processing bacteriological specimens.

Identify and confirm Id and susceptibility of specific bacteria.

Identify bacterial cultures from send outs to genus and species

Perform serotyping for specific bacteria (e.g.: Shigella, Neisseria meningitides and Haemophilus influenza, Listeria, Legionella, Salmonella, and GC).

Perform testing for Staph aureus (check the biochemical needed to prove that organism is really a Staphylococcus aureus. Susceptibility test (E-test) follows.

Responsible for maintaining QC by monitoring and troubleshooting temperatures of refrigerators, freezer, room temperatures and heating block in referral section.

Perform susceptibility testing by E-test.

Examining Legionella specimens under DFA.

Freeze specimens when testing is completed and id is confirmed.

Clinical Laboratory Technologist

Planned Parenthood-Laboratory, Brooklyn, New York, March 2014-May 2014

Running urine pregnancy tests (upt for low and high sensitivity) and resulting.

Running the HIV oral tests and resulting.

Running the Rh factor and the hematocrit test and resulting

Responsible for all the QC of reagents, refrigerators and centrifuges take confirmatory actions to correct out of range.

In process of being trained in phlebotomy.

Clinical Laboratory Technologist

Sunrise Medical Laboratory, Hicksville, New York, September 2013-November 2013

Processing bacteriological specimens

Running pending lists daily

Running the inoculab instruments to streak out inoculated petri dishes.

Running daily, weekly, monthly QC on both inoculabs.

Programming Analyst

New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, January 2008-August 2013

Building microbiology tests using micro db tools, bedrock, dcp tools and the department order catalog in Cerner Pathnet. Leading and managing the microbiology portion of Cerner Millennium implementation.

Making changes in general lab tests (chemistry and hematology) as far as reference ranges are concerned and making changes with test names.

Implementing Cerner Millennium across multiple campuses (Cornell, Columbia and Allen Pavilion).

Used many Cerner Pathnet applications for various tasks (application bar, open view, all the microbiology db tools, dcp, DORC, charge services, mdi audit tool, departmental order entry, result entry, order result viewer, batch result entry, QC applications and bedrock.

Extensive use of Eclipsys by ordering a wide spectrum of tests and making sure that they crossed over to Millennium through the interfaces. That was done by opening up HL7 to see if the orders did come across. Order sets were also used to test if all parts of a specific order test could come over through downstream systems (Eclipsys) to Millennium.

Extensive interface testing with ADT, the whole system interfaces, FSI primarily, and instrumental/application interfaces

Resulting tests in Millennium and making sure that they crossed back over to Eclipsys. The HL7 was utilized daily to see if the results crossed over in downstream systems.

Many down streams were utilized before, during and after implementation of Millennium. Aside from Eclipsys, we used Allscripts and Epic. Allscripts were used specifically by the uptown campus (Columbia Presbyterian Hospital).

Testing where all orderable tests were compatible with Eclipsys and all downstream systems.

Creating Standard Operating Procedures for the LIS team and for all the end users for all cerner applications. Extensive documentation was provided for service level agreement.

Created training material for Cornell and Columbia campuses, the laboratory personnel and the LIS team. Job aids were also created to assist further in training with visual aids.

Oversaw integration testing and followed by documenting defects and producing a solution for defects.

Interpreting the laboratory change requests and determining the impact on other campuses/systems. Aligning the appropriate resources to produce a solution that appeased all laboratories.

Worked very closely with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to develop their skills in using the Cerner Millennium application which stemmed into extensive experience in working in the Cerner laboratory.

Worked with the billing aspect of Cerner Millennium. Made updates with charges and prices in charging various tests as appeared in the database pricing tool across campuses

Responsible for handling all critical incidents for all campuses during normal business hours.

Clinical Laboratory Technologist

Elmhurst Hospital Center, Elmhurst, New York, September 1999-December 2007

Processing bacteriological specimens

Identifying bacteria to genus and species

Performing susceptibility tests to antibiotics

Working with MISYS for five years.

Processed TB and parasitology specimens.

Processing blood cultures on bactec instruments

Clinical Laboratory Technologist

Elmhurst Hospital Center, Elmhurst, New York, November 1990-April 1995

Processing bacteriological specimens

Identifying bacteria to genus and species

Performing susceptibility tests to antibiotics

Processed TB and parasitology specimens.

Clinical Laboratory Technologist

Long Island Jewish Hospital, New Hyde Park, NY, November 1988-October 1989

Processing bacteriological specimens

Identifying bacteria to genus and species

Running tests for Chlamydia trachomatis detection

Graduate Assistant

York College of C.U.N.Y., Jamaica, New York, February 1988-July 1988

Prepared media

Ran numerous viability tests for bacteria and viruses

Prepared lab exercises for microbiology classes

Clinical Laboratory Technologist Trainee

Booth Memorial Hospital (New York Hospital of Queens), Flushing, New York,

October 1986-November 1987

Processing bacteriological specimens

Identifying bacteria to genus and species

Performing susceptibility tests to various antibiotics

Processed TB, serology and parasitology specimens.

Processing blood cultures and body fluid cultures received in blood bottles.

Assistant Researcher

St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York, September 1985-June 1986

Measured zone of inhibition on an agar plate seeded with Micrococcus luteus to determine efficiency and presence of antibiotic use.

Assistant Researcher in Microbial Genetics

York College of C.U.N.Y., Jamaica, New York, September 1982-December 1984

Tested resistance or sensitivity to cadmium in three different strains of Staphylococcus aureus used.

TECHNOLGY SUMMARY:

Medical Applications: Cerner Millennium, Wyndgate SafeTrace Tx, Eclipsys XA, Epic and Meditech CS.

Instruments: EPOC, Provue, Beckman Coulter DXH, DXC, Molis WAM, and Advia.

Utilities: Telecor, Data Innovations, Remedy, Camtasia, Olympus and Putty.

Applications: Citrix, Microsoft; Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, Visio, and Teamsite

Hardware: Intermec, Zebra, and HP LaserJet printers.

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