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Belleville, IL

cell: 224-***-****

AVAILABILITY Job Type: Permanent

Work Schedule: Full Time

Desired Locations US-Illinois-Missouri

Work Experience

United States Navy 9/2002 – 9/2007

Bethesda, Maryland US Hours per week: 40

Sterile Technician

SUCCESSFULLY STERILIZED ALL MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT for the National Naval Medical Center’s Main Operating Room Services including cardiothoracic, Ear/nose/throat, General, Genital Urinary, Pulmonary Vascular, Orthopedics, Oral Maxillofacial facial, Neurology, Gynecology, Plastic surgery services and 39 surrounding clinics.

EXPERT OPERATIONAL USE OF VARIOUS STERILIZATION EQUIPMENT such as a washer-sterilizer, ultrasonic instrument cleaners, and Ethylene Oxide Gas Sterilizer Systems, Getinge steam/gravity sterilizers and gas plasma machines 200, 100, and 50 sterrad machines, Case Cart washer mono rail system.

PROCESSED, ASSEMBLED, AND TROUBLESHOOT MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT including Specialty instrumentation form synthesis, Acumed, Depuy, instruments sets, Rigid scopes, light cords, and cameras.

INVENTORIED, STORED, AND ISSUED EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES VALUED AT OVER $100,000. Administered tests to determine effectiveness of sterilization methods used on equipment. As a result of these tests, was awarded Department Achievement Award in 2003 for decreasing sterilization equipment failures which was impacting the hospital's performance, thus increasing productivity by 26%.

SUCCESSFULLY TRACKED MEDICAL SUPPLIES using the Cenitrac instrument tracking system in order to assure that instruments went from decontamination, through sterilization, and finally the ability to track instrumentation throughout the entire hospital to its current department inventory location.

CERTIFIED IN THE USE OF ASEPTIC PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES including characteristics of various types of detergents, cleaning techniques, sterilizing mediums, sterilizer operation. Provide technical knowledge and advice in the use, sterilization of all equipment, and supplies to staff and senior level personnel in group settings of 20 or more and on a one-on-one basis.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

1.Significantly contributed to a 75% decrease in re-sterilization of instruments during a workload increase of 130%, all while mentoring six junior personnel and three civilians and Orientating 15 Nurse corps officers and 20 surgical technicians. This resulted in a load recall reduction of 75%.

2.Oriented 16 military and civilian staff members on the Sterile Processing environment at the National Naval Medical Center thereby increasing their knowledge of the department.

3.Created calculation formulas and percentage formulas for the Monthly Employee Performance Recordings (MEPR) resulting in 100% accurate reporting of man-hours for 18 staff personnel in 2003.

4.Voluntarily provided assistance in analyzing workloads and processes at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in support of the eminent integration with National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda.

Pharmacy Technician

More than three-year experience as Pharmacy Technician.

Superb communication skills necessary to follow verbal and written instructions, including the ability to understand technical and pharmaceutical terminology.

Performed efficiently in all aspects of the outpatient pharmacy; provided excellent customer service and patient counseling, assisted in filling and dispensing over 62,000 prescriptions monthly.

Served as narcotic technician, with extreme attention to detail resulted in zero discrepancies noted.

Dispensed prescriptions at the satellite refill site; enabled over 200 patients daily to obtain refills in a quick and efficient manner.

A clinic issue corpsman: effectively trained 7 pharmacy staff on the daily operations and responsibilities of filling medication bulk orders for over 60 clinics/wards throughout the hospital and 35 outlying branch clinics.

Conducted over 30 clinic/ward inspections ensuring continuous command compliance with federal regulations.

Forklift Operator/Warehouse

Db Schenker – Forklift Operator

August 2019- May 2020

Trained and assisted new employees in company policies and procedures.

Helped create load and unload patterns for new hires.

Functioned as a liaison between new employees and management to help motivation.

Received and shipped merchandise and visually inspected goods for damage as well as to verify items against shipping paperwork.

Worked with logistics that was responsible for receiving orders, staging, task manager, wrappers manager, damaging process and put-a-ways that operated on a RTCIS computer operating system on forklift.

Pulled and prepare products for shipment, ensuring the exact product and number is loaded.

Exceeded fulfilment rate to ensure on time delivery schedule for customers and reduce freight costs.

Exceeded all productivity standards in a fast-paced environment.

Amazon Warehouse Associate

Amazon Fulfillment Center

May 2020 – February 2021

Building pallets for shipment in the palletize area.

Building walls in the trailers on the ship dock and scanning / stacking totes to ship in the transship area.

Water-spider duties for the palletize area.

Outbound processing and sorting of customer packages.

Worked in a very fast paced environment.

Problem solving duties involving damaged products.

Worked in teams to meet end of shift deadlines.

Support team in performing daily goals and follow-up as well as ensuring production goals are being met during both peak and non-peak periods.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Field Medical Service Technician (USMC) class 03020, Camp Lejeune, NC 06/14/2003

High School Equivalency Certificate (IL Board Of Education) 05/08/2001

Pharmacy Technician (Naval School of Health Sciences) 12/12/2003

Hospital Corpsman (Naval Hospital Corps School Great Lakes) 04/24/2003

Casualty Evacuation Corpsman (USMC) 11/08/2004

Command Delivered Petty Officer Indoctrination, 2006

Dental Technician Manual, Volume 01, 2006

Dental Technician Manual, Volume 02, 2006

Certified Basic Life Support Provider, May 2005

Hospital Corpsman Manual, 2004

Military Requirement for Petty Officers Third and Second Class, 2003

COMPUTER PROFICIENCY

Microsoft word, excel, power point, outlook, internet navigation in a Windows XP environment.

Type 40-50 words per minute.

EDUCATION

High School Equivalency Certificate (IL Board of Education) 05/08/2001

Central Texas College

Bethesda, Maryland US

Some coursework completed

Relevant coursework, licensures and certifications:

Coursework: English 101

working toward Associate in Business Administration.

Vocational – 12/2005

National Naval Medical Center

Bethesda, Maryland US

Relevant coursework, licensures and certifications:

Coursework: Human Anatomy and Microbiology;

Cleaning, decontamination, and disinfection;

Endoscopes, Medical Equipment, Procurement, Inventory Management and Distribution;

High and Low Temperature Sterilization, Surgical Instrumentation, and Rigid Container System;

Sterile Packaging and Storage;

Legal Issues and Safety, Quality Assurance and Six Sigma;

Human Relation Skills, Information Technology and Health Care Trends.

Vocational – 12/2006

Hospital Corpsman Basic

Great Lakes, Illinois US

Vocational - 5 / 2003

Relevant coursework, licensures and certifications:

Coursework: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Health, Wellness and Safety, Phlebotomy procedures, Nursing procedures,

Clinical Nursing Practice, Emergency Medical Procedures, and Medical terminology.

Recruit Training Command

Great Lakes, Illinois US

Vocational - 11 / 2002

Relevant Coursework, Licensures and Certifications:

Instructed on all basic seamanship functions aboard a ship (United States Navy Basic Training)

Southwestern Illinois College 2016 associate degree (Adm. of Justice) 2016

Southern Illinois university Edwardsville 2019 bachelor degree (Social Work) 2019

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