Summary: ** years experience as a true Generalist with Lead roles in microbiology, blood bank, chemistry, hematology, serology and molecular. Looking to relocate to a permanent Lead position.

Experience

Monmouth Medical Center – Long Branch, NJ November 2022 – 2023

Position: Lead Medical Technologist, General Lab – 2nd Shift

Performed Lead MLS generalist bench duties on weekdays, weekends, nights, holidays in all departments.

Performed daily, weekly, monthly startup, quality control, calibration, and maintenance on all instrumentation.

Performed instrument validations.

Consults with physicians, providers, pharmacists on lab results and interpretations.

Trains and mentors younger techs and new grads.

•Monmouth Medical Center – Long Branch, NJ November 2020 -- 2022

Position: Lead Technologist, Bacteriology Lab – 2nd Shift

Duties:

Responsible for daily, weekly, and monthly duties including quality control, maintenance, and CAP requirements.

Maintaining compliance with state and federal regulations for infectious disease reporting

Perform bacteriology culture bench duties including urines, bloods, respiratory, routine wounds, MRSA screens, GBS screens, throats, Gram Stains, all benches other than anaerobe and AFB.

Instruments/ Equipment:

Vitek 2

MS Maldi Tof

BioFire FilmArray

Virtuo Blood Culture System

GeneXpert

Light microscopes

Cerner Millennium LIS

MYLA

Verigene

•Monmouth Medical Center – Long Branch, NJ March 2019 – November 2020

Position: Traveling Technologist, Bacteriology Lab – 2nd Shift

Duties:

Responsible for daily, weekly, and monthly duties including quality control, maintenance, and CAP requirements.

Maintaining compliance with state and federal regulations for infectious disease reporting

Perform bacteriology culture bench duties including urines, bloods, respiratory, routine wounds, MRSA screens, GBS screens, throats, Gram Stains, all benches other than anaerobe and AFB.

Instruments/ Equipment:

Vitek 2

MS Maldi Tof

BioFire FilmArray

Bactec

GeneXpert

Light microscopes

Cerner Millennium LIS

•Saint Joseph’s Regional Medical Center – South Bend, IN September 2018 – March 2019

Position: Traveling Generalist – 3rd Shift

Duties:

Responsible for daily, weekly, and monthly generalist duties including quality control, maintenance, and CAP requirements.

Maintaining compliance with state and federal regulations for infectious disease reporting

Perform generalist bench duties in Blood Bank, chemistry, hematology, coagulation, microbiology, urinalysis, and serology

Instruments/ Equipment:

Cobas 6000 Chemistry

Sysmex XT 1800/2000 Hemotology

Sysmex CA Series Coag analyzers

ProVue Blood Bank analyzer

Clinitech Advantous

Beckman IRIS

Cerner Millennium LIS

•Val Verde Regional Medical Center – Del Rio, TX January 2018 – September 2018

Position: Traveling Generalist – 2nd Shift

Duties:

Responsible for daily, weekly, and monthly generalist duties including quality control, maintenance, and CAP requirements.

Maintaining compliance with state and federal regulations for infectious disease reporting

Perform generalist bench duties in Blood Bank, chemistry, hematology, coagulation, microbiology, urinalysis, and serology

Instruments/ Equipment:

Beckman Unicell DXC 600i

Beckman Access

Coulter DXH 600

Abbott Architech

Clinitech Advantous

ACL Top and Elite

McKesson Paragon LIS

•Community Memorial Hospital – Menomonee Falls, WI December 2016 – December 2017

Position: Traveling Generalist – 3rd Shift

Duties:

Responsible for daily, weekly, and monthly generalist duties including quality control, maintenance, and CAP requirements.

Venipuncture/Phlebotomy collection for inpatient and ER blood testing.

Maintaining compliance with state and federal regulations for infectious disease reporting

Perform generalist bench duties in chemistry, hematology, coagulation, microbiology, urinalysis, and serology

Instruments/ Equipment:

Cobas 6000

Cobas 400 & 411

Coulter DXH 800

Coulter LH750

Verigene Nanosphere

Clinitech Advantous

ACL Top and Elite

ABL 800

Cerner Millennium

•Gila Regional Medical Center – Silver City, NM

April 2015 – November 2016

Position: Microbiology – Section Lead

Duties:

Responsible for daily, weekly, and monthly microbiology duties including quality control, maintenance, and CAP requirements.

Validation and correlation studies on new equipment/methodologies

Maintaining compliance with state and federal regulations for infectious disease reporting

Perform generalist bench duties in hematology, coagulation, urinalysis, and serology

Built MIC module in Meditech upgrade, 5.6 to 6.14

Instruments/ Equipment:

Vitek 2 Compact with MYLA

BacT/ALERT 3D

BioFire Film Array

GeneXPERT

Quidel Sophia FIA

Beckman Coulter Iricell

Sysmex XN2000

ACL Top and Elite

Meditech 5.6 and 6.14

•United States Air Force – Mountain Home AFB

Position: Medical Laboratory Craftsman

Duties:

Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge (NCOIC) of Microbiology 2003-2009

NCOIC of Transfusion Services and Coagulation 2009-2010

NCOIC of Infection Control 2010-2011

Idaho State Bioterrorist Agent LRN reference lab coordinator

Performed generalist bench duties on weekdays, weekends, nights, holidays in all departments.

Performed daily, weekly, monthly startup, quality control, calibration and maintenance on all instrumentation

Instruments:

RAPID (Ruggedized Advanced Pathogen Identification Device) PCR

JBAIDS (Joint Biological Agent Identification and Detection System) PCR

Bioveris M1M Toxicity Detector

Ortho Gel System – Manual

Sysmex CA-500 Coagulation

Dade Dimension Xpand

Abbott AXSYM

Beckman Coulter LH500

Beckman Coulter Iricell

Clinitek 500

Vitek 2 compact with observa

Jan. 2001- April 2011

•Stay at home Father

Maintained ASCP certification

Skills

Providing detailed instruction for difficult tasks

Following through with clinical staff on questions

Communicating with clinical staff in a professional manner

Developing detailed guides for laboratory processes

Procedure writing

Identifying discrepant results and consulting with clinical staff for resolution

Able to multitask in an effective manner.

Executing specimen processing according to priority

Confidence in identifying QC issues and maintaining QC files

April 2011 – April 2015

Education

Community College of the Air Force Medical Laboratory Specialist A.S equivalent – Maxwell AFB, AL

Certification

•MLT (ASCP)CM

•Meets CLIA requirements for Lead Technologists role in all 5 major departments of the lab.

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