Pharmacy Tech Technician

Cocoa Jackson ************@*****.***

682-***-**** 5110 Winterberry Ct.

682-***-**** Arlington, Texas 76018

Citizenship: US

Veterans Preference: 5

Work Experience

Field Application Specialist 09/13 – current

Alternative Biomedical Solutions Ash Patel

1600 Wallace Dr. Ste 100 214-***-**** May contact

Carrollton, Texas 75006 40 hrs/w, 72,000/yr

Duties: Travel from state to state installing, validating and training on the Indiko, Olympus and the BS200 Chemistry Analyzers. Ensuring the customer is well versed and totally capable of running the analyzer independently upon my completion of training. Continuing customer service with my and other customers of ABS ensuring they are taken care of and happy with the company.

Made sure all documents/policies within the company are up to date with and all employees are utilizing the current revision. Ensure that all validation binders are up to snuff for COLA/CLIA. Process orders and send out shipments for customers.

On-Site Installer 09/09 – current

Baxter Healthcare Craig Hollins

Maroon V 847-***-**** May contact

Englewood, Colorado 40 hrs/w, 61,600/yr

Duties: Travel from state to state installing the new Exactamix Compunder in pharmacies and home healthcare businesses. Train new customers on the use of the compounder. Ensure the customers are completely confident and comfortable with working on the machine in my absence. Teach technicians the new guidelines of spiking up into medication bags.

Pharmacy Tech 04/23 – 8/3/2012

Parkland Hospital Pharmacy Sam Tetteh

5201 Harry Hines Blvd. 214-***-**** May contact

Dallas, Texas 75235 20 hrs/w, 65,000/yr

Duties: Filled orders, answered phones. Sent out mail order prescriptions. Worked on robot. Worked with the baker cassette cabinet for drug distribution. Worked closely with pharmacist to ensure patient medication bins are complete before submitting them for check. Helped patients to obtain numbers for order turn in or pick up. Counseled patients on new medications and assisted in espanol for Spanish speaking patients.

Pharmacy tech

NAS JRB(Carswell AFB) 10/08 – 02/10

Branch Health Clinic Pharmacy Michael Tucker

1700 Doolittle Ave 817-***-**** May contact

Fort Worth, Texas 76127 40 hrs/w, $80,000/yr

Duties: Typed, filled, and filed prescriptions. Answered phones. Troubleshoot problems with customers. Order all medication and supplies for pharmacy. Trained new comers on automated dispensing machine and CHCS software, military software. Reads individual prescriptions and determines kind, strength, and dosage of drug to be dispensed. Correlation of instructions on the order and pharmacy policy limitations must be made and noted on the prescription. Relied on to notice any unusual requests for drugs and supplies, reactions in bulk compounding, etc., and discuss possible solutions with pharmacist. Dealt with professional staff and company representatives in a tactful and helpful manner.

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Answer routine inquiries from doctors, nurses, and other staff on the availability of specific items; e.g., drugs in stock, new drugs on order, and dosage forms available in the pharmacy.

I have 20 years in pharmacy. I have practiced in most all settings including, retail, hospital, clinic and I have also taught the pharmacy technician program courses.

Teacher 4/2007 – 10/2008

Iverson Business School Lamonthial Harris

1600 Pioneer Parkway Ste. 200 817-***-**** May contact

Arlington, Texas 76016 40 hrs/w, $40,000/yr

Duties: Taught all pharmacy technician courses needed to obtain the National Certification Certificate. Ordered all supplies for classes. Taught aseptic technique in sterile lab. Taught students how to puncture an IV bag to add a mixture in order to form a certain drug. Counseled students who were having trouble with balancing school and home life. Taught after hour tutoring on my free time for students needing an extra boost.

Took students on field trips to actual pharmacies, where they were able to do hands on practicing. This was my first time ever teaching, but I had found my niche’, and was very well at it. I received teacher of the year and of the quarter.

Pharmacy tech 5/1998 – 02/2008

Kindred Hospital Pharmacy William Hogue

1000 N. Cooper 817-***-**** May contact

Arlington, Texas 76011 40 hrs/w, $110,000/yr

Makes routine tours of areas serviced by the pharmacy, e.g., wards, clinics, and special services, to ascertain replenishment needs from nurses. Performs substantially all sterile solution operations in a pharmacy, which serves over 3500 units in the hospital, including 6 research labs, 2 oncology clinics, and numerous outpatient maintenance clinics. Receives and fills ward and clinic drug supply orders from a wide variety of items stocked in the pharmacy. With the ability to compute requested amounts of drugs and supplies to the amounts available in the pharmacy, calculating dosage amounts was a very crucial part of my job. Assuring adherence to sterile procedures, and care of equipment, which if allowed to malfunction, may contaminate sterile products. The use of correct labeling materials and techniques required during sterilization procedures, scheduling sterilization of bottles, and performance of standard assays on all completed solutions.

Airman, CPhT 05/89 – 10/10

USAF Reserves Major Leslie Ricks

1711 Doolittle Ave. 817-***-**** May contact

Fort Worth, Texas 76127 20 hrs/w, $18,000/yr

Duties: While serving in the Air Force, of course I was an Airman first, then a Certified Pharmacy Technician later. In the 20 years I served I have trained in all aspects of war that you could imagine. I have learned to do sutures, place an IV line, perform CPR, know all medical protocol for wartime situations, and last but not least save a life. I also acquired the knowledge of pharmacy technician duties. I have worked in many different hospitals at many different bases around the world. I have erected tents and set up a full pharmacy outdoors. While serving I obtained a PharmD license with full credentials to practice pharmacy.

Makes routine tours of areas serviced by the pharmacy, e.g., wards, clinics, and special services, to ascertain replenishment needs from nurses. Performs substantially all sterile solution operations in a pharmacy, which serves over 3500 units in the hospital, including 6 research labs, 2 oncology clinics, and numerous outpatient maintenance clinics. Receives and fills ward and clinic drug supply orders from a wide variety of items stocked in the pharmacy. With the ability to compute requested amounts of drugs and supplies to the amounts available in the pharmacy, calculating dosage amounts was a very crucial part of my job. Assuring adherence to sterile procedures, and care of equipment, which if allowed to malfunction, may contaminate sterile products. The use of correct labeling materials and techniques required during sterilization procedures, scheduling sterilization of bottles, and performance of standard assays on all completed solutions.

I have mastered pharmacology and was awarded an Honors certificate of graduation from tech school.

Education

6/95 AAS

in Pharmacy, GPA 3.2

University of Houston, Houston, TX

12/92 Associates of Applied Science in Pharmacology, GPA 3.8

University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77004

10/89 Honors Certificate of Achievement, GPA 4.0

Shepard Technical Training Center, Wichita Falls, TX

01/1989 Magna Cum Laude Honors Diploma, GPA 3.9

Trimble Technical High School, Fort Worth, Texas 76104

Honors, Awards

05/07 Longevity Award, 06/89 Marksmanship Award, 05/04 Family of the Year Award, 06/08 Teacher of the Year Award, 06/07 Teacher of the Quarter Award, 02/06 Employee of the Year Award(twice)

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