Quality Control Medical Lab

Location:

Great Falls, MT

Salary:

25/hr

Posted:

May 11, 2025

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Daniel Sivak,BS,MLS(ASCP)cm

Lead Medical Laboratory Scientist

Seeking a Secondary job (work from home)in conjunction with my Primary job to establish extra income and to expand my knowledge in different areas of my career.

Experience

07/2011–03/2015

Medical Lab Scientist• Night Shift Generalist (7 on 7 off) • Jamestown Regional Medical Center.

Worked in moderately to very busy 25 plus, critical access hospital working individually at night in every department. Worked mainly with 12 room, Trauma level 4 emergency department drawing blood and processing specimens quickly and accurately working with all age ranges.

Performed maintenance and quality control on all analyzers along with outside testing for surrounding clinics.

Hematology department head monitoring quality control, performing calibrations and linearity. Updated policies when needed with accordance to laboratory guidelines. Performed CSF counts and workup in all areas of the lab individually.

Worked in Chemistry as 2nd operator for dimension systems. Perform calibrations when needed and quality and advanced maintenance. Attended advanced Chemistry Operator training on onsite siemens facility. Main mechanical maintenance tech for chemistry. Perform manual dilutions and troubleshooting low or high patient results with reagent issues when needed.

Worked in blood bank performed BHO and RH, antibody screens, cross matches, DAT transfusion workups and issuing blood products in accordance with laboratory guidelines.

Worked in special chemistry processing vitamin B12 and folates for anemia workups. Also, second operator for special chemistry for maintenance on Siemens Centaur CP.

Worked in urinalysis doing basic routine urinalysis workups with reflex testing to microscopy and cultures. Former head of urinalysis and serology when moved to Hematology.

Worked in Microbiology doing preliminary processing such as gram stains, wet preps and setup up cultures for day technologists. 705 2nd Ave S

Great Falls, MT 59405

406-***-****

**********@*****.***

Great Falls Hospital

Special specimen collection, doing legal blood alcohol collections and drug screens for ED, non-DOT related.

Performed venipuncture and capillary draws on all age ranges. 03/2015–09/2015

Medical Lab Scientist• Night Shift Generalist • Freeport Health(FHN) Worked in a very busy 100 bed hospital working individually at night in every department. Work mainly with ER patient’s processing specimens quickly and accurately working with all age ranges. Performed quality control in hematology, chemistry, and coagulation individually.

Performed testing for Cancer Center and outside clinics Worked with double the analyzers, 2 hematology, 4 chemistry and 2 coagulation analyzers prioritizing which sample goes on which analyzer first.

Worked with special chemistry processing Hepatitis panels and HIV combo panels on architect i2000 and architect i1000 including Iron studies and hormones. Also performed Osmolality testing with osmometer.

Worked in Chemistry on dry slide Vitros 5.1 analyzers, performing basic routine chemistry panels and therapeutic drug monitoring for ones available for said analyzer.

Worked in microbiology performing serology testing and setting up cultures for day shift, performing wet preps and gram stains on a variety of specimen as well as preliminary results on positive blood cultures.

Worked in Blood Bank with Gel system and Tube system performing basic blood banking and complex testing such as Antibody ID panels and sero-typing, both Immediate spin and Anti-globulin cross matching, issuing a wide range of different blood products, DAT and weak D testing and pre-natal workups.

Worked in Urinalysis doing basic routine testing with reflex testing to manual microscopy when needed.

Worked in Coagulation performing routine workups such as PT/INR, PTT, Fibrinogen and D-Dimers. Also performed platelet function testing.

Worked in Hematology with two automated analyzers with reflex to manual differentials. Performed CSF counts and differentials and body fluid manual cell counts and differentials.

Performed Hbg S solubility testing for sickle cell, CSF workups individually in all areas of the Laboratory as well as Fetal Hemoglobin stains when reflexed from blood bank rapid fetal screens. 11/2015–10/2023

CHI St. Alexius Dickinson ND, (Commonspirit)

Lead Medical Lab Scientist Generalist• Head of

Molecular/Microbiology, 2nd in command for Chemistry, Secretary for the ND State Board of Clinical Laboratory Practice (NDBCLP), Infection Control and Lab Safety Consultant • CHI St. Alexius Dickinson Medical Center (Day shift)

Work in very busy, moderate volume Critical Access Laboratory, processing tests individually and helping other Laboratory Scientists with testing, reference testing for outside clinics, send out testing, working with all age ranges.

Having knowledge of all analyzers to be able to troubleshoot and fix all analyzers to the best of my abilities.

Perform Quality Control and Calibrations in all areas of the Laboratory including Core Lab, Blood Bank, and Microbiology. Work with double analyzers, 2 Hematology, 3 Chemistry, 2 Urine, 2 Molecular, 1 Coag, 1 Osmometer, 1 Ketones analyzer, 1 Microscan Prioritizing Samples accordingly.

Helping with drawing blood with phlebotomists when needed. Bench Head of Molecular Diagnostic Testing (PCR), with GeneXpert molecular analyzers and Abbott ID-NOW analyzer performing and processing COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 testing and taking care of send out Covid testing, kits, quality control and epidemiological processes. Starting and validating new tests for PCR and the LIS systems. Work with Dimensions EXL, dimension 200 and Centaur CP processing special Chemistry and general chemistries along with osmolarity and ketones.

Worked mainly in Microbiology as Micro tech 1 and 2 reading aerobic bench, anaerobic bench, gram stains, blood culture workups and processing a variety of cultures. Performed Fluorescent Stains. In charge of Microbiology IQCP program and Microbiology Bioterrorism Program.

Work in Blood bank with Gel system and Tube system performing basic Blood Banking and complex testing such as antibody screens, serotyping for E and K when needed, Fetal Screens, RHIG workups and cord blood workups. Processing Massive hemorrhage protocols and emergency release procedures.

Work in Urinalysis doing basic routine testing with Microscopy review.

Work in Coagulation performing routine workups such as PT/INR, PTT, Fibrinogen and D-Dimers. Also performed platelet function testing.

Work in Hematology with two automated hematology analyzers, performing manual differentials when ordered, and slide reviews when needed. Performed CSF counts and differentials and body fluid manual cell counts and differentials, as well as automated body fluid analysis on the Sysmex 4000i Hematology analyzer.

Perform CSF workups individually in all areas of the laboratory. Perform Legal Alcohol blood draws, Legal Drug screens (both DOT and NON-DOT) and Breath Alcohol testing.

Instruct presentations outside of Laboratory for High Schools, teaching them about Laboratory Science and what I do as a Scientist, as well as speaking about Service Excellence at Rotary Club meetings. Give tours of the Laboratory to Schools for field trips. Secretary of the North Dakota Board of Clinical Laboratory Practice for wester ND, where I oversee all the licensure, laboratory rules and regulations for the entire state of North Dakota with 6 other board members.

Newly educated on new Hematology instrumentation, Sysmex XN2000.

10/2023–12/2024

LRS Healthcare Travel laboratory Scientist

Southwest Medical Center in Liberal Kansas

Performed testing in all areas of the Laboratory with little to no supervision. Worked in Microbiology performing workups of cultures, PCR testing, gram staining and troubleshooting. Participated in working in the Health Fare running and organizing specimens from the draw stations to the lab. In charge of Arkray, IRIS DxU, BD Max and SQA Vision. Assisted in getting body fluids up and running on the IRIS DxU system. 01/27/2025 - PRESENT

Great Falls Hospital Laboratory

Great Falls Northwest Clinical Laboratory

Medical Laboratory Scientist (Generalist) in both locations Performed in all areas of the Laboratory working both with and without a team. Also trained at Clinic Location to assist when staffing issues became a problem. Learned to work with different softwares at the clinic. Worked a variety of shifts except overnights.

ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

Work Years are estimated

2003 - 2004 Work Study at Trinity High School

Performed Janitorial duties to help pay off my highschool tuition. 2004-2007 Papa Murphys, Dickinson ND

Assistant manager, open and closed the store, prepared and made all items especially individually. Then and the end of 2007 I left papa murphys to attend college.

2009 Center for Disease Control - ND State Laboratory Bismarck ND Worked as a paid Epidemiology intern doing data entry for H1N1 outbreaks along with anything else that was needed for data entry. Education

University of Mary, Bismarck, ND, (Affiliated with UND) Bachelor of Science, Medical Laboratory Science

Performed Clinical Rotation and Lab Boot Camp at UND Other Education

Advanced Chemistry training with Siemens Dimension EXL Service Excellence Advisor Training from CHI St. Alexius DOT and NON-DOT Breath Alcohol and Legal Drug testing Bioterrorism workshops at ND State Laboratory

Instrumentation and Software

Siemens Dimension EXL with RMS, Siemens Centaur CP, Vitros 5.1, Beckman Coulter LH500, Abbott Architect, Abbott Cell Dyn, Abbott Axsym, ACL 8000 hemostasis systems, CliniTek Urinalysis, i-Stat, Sysmex CA-500, Sysmex CA-1500, Sysmex CA-2500, Sysmex pocH-100i, Roche Criterion urinalysis analyzer, Mini-Ves automated Sedimentation rate, Bac Tec Blood Analyzers, CliniTek automated Line urine analyzer with UF-1000 Sysmex microscopic urine analyzer, Beckman Coulter DXH-600, G7 HGBA1C analyzer (gold standard), VIDAS serology analyzer, Cepheid GeneXpert, SYSMEX 4000/2000 Hematology Analyzers, Siemens Microscan 40si and DxM Microscan, Abbott ID-NOW and Sysmex XN2000, Abbott Alinity c/i, ACLTOP, Arkray/DxU Iris, BD Phoenix M50, Ortho Swift (bloodbank), SQA Vision (Fertility) Worked with Health Care Management Systems, EPIC, and Meditech. Added to this is Beckman Coulter DxH 900, Vitros 7600 with Vitros automated track system and instrument manager. Stago Compact, D-10 HA1C analyzer, Triage meter (backup for D-dimer). Will be learning the Vitek 2.

Certification and Licensure

Medical Laboratory Scientist, American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Clinical Laboratory Scientist, Montana State Board of Lab Science. Awards and Leadership

Nominated for Legend Aware at JRMC, Elected as Firestarter for Leadership CHI St. Alexius July 2018 Employee of the Month

Service Excellence Advisor from 2017 to 2018

Governor Appointed Board Member of ND Board of Clinical Lab Practice Presenter of Service Excellence for Rotary Club

Presenter for Laboratory Science for High School Health Science Classes

***Performed and organized the laboratory portion of the Wibaux Health Fair***

References

Bonnie Marsh, MT(ASCP) – CHI St. Alexius Dickinson Medical Technologist

Chemistry Department Head

Phone: 701-***-****

Email: ******.*****@************.***

Dr. David Kuylen (MD) – CHI St. Alexius Dickinson

Emergency Medicine Medical Doctor