Cell Phone Bilingual Interpreter
Resume:
Carlos Emilio Elias
Apt # *A
New York City, New York
Cell phone 917-***-****
Email: *********@*****.***
EDUCATION: St. John’s University Jamaica, New York St. John’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Curriculum: Natural Sciences
Degree: Bachelor of Science (BS) – Sept 1991
General Biology Vertebrate zoology
General Chemistry
Histology
Organic Chemistry Biochemistry
Physics Microbiology
Ecology
Biostatistics Mammal Anatomy with cat dissection
Zoology Anatomy and Physiology
Parasitology Invertebrate Zoology
St. John’s University Jamaica, New York
St. Vincent’s College
Curriculum: Liberal Arts
Degree: Associate in Arts – January 1984
Liberal Arts courses
EXPERIENCE: Interpreting services of Queens, NY LLC Oct 2024 Position/ bilingual interpreter/ Spanish
To Attending meetings between parents and teachers at various schools throughout Present New York City and translating for them simultaneously as well as proctoring state exams where I would translate the question for a student who did not understand it in English into Spanish.
Jan 2025 Antech Diagnostic Pet Laboratories
To Processing biopsies, mainly skin and lipomas, all sizes, with tumors 99% of the time, by May ‘25 sectioning them into even and thin cuts based on their size and origin then separating them in cassettes into 4, 8 and 12 hour processing times for the machine, for the next step. The main concern for the veterinarians requesting these results was to know if the tumor was a malignant or benign one.
March 2024 Swing Education, substitute and assistant teachers To Assist teachers in middle schools and high schools throughout the tristate New York City Oct ‘24 area with their subjects. Also assist with proctoring tests. Quest Diagnostics laboratories, Teaneck, New Jersey Nov/2023 Laboratory specimen processor / position temporary due to low volume and budget To Dec ‘23 problems
Centrifuging and aliquoting patients’ sera for specific tests whose codes were looked up for their requirements.
Processing of quantiferons for Tuberculosis including incubation for outside sendouts. Preparing platelet poor plasma for coagulation testing Presorting and batching of patients specimens to be sent to outside laboratories, etc. Jan 2009 Basic science and Spanish Tutor New York, New York To Private tutoring
Dec 2022 Assisted new students entering college with mastering basic science and Spanish courses only as needed, not laboratory related, no benefits. The groups were made by word of mouth
over time.
Gap in work history due to car accident in which I was struck at a red traffic light in NYC followed by recent loss of mother (Feb 2021) from a misdiagnosed advanced colon and Covid19, before the vaccines were available. I contracted the virus from mother because she had to be taken care of at home 24/7. Documents can be provided, if requested. Sept 1997 Western Queens Community Hospital 718-***-**** To Aug (Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens) Queens, New York 2001 Microbiology Laboratory Assistant / General Laboratory Assistant / Clerk
* Assisting in general microbiology techniques such as plating out specimens on media, isolating and carrying out sensitivity tests on organisms using the MICROSCAN, culturing blood for pathogens in VAKTET incubator, etc.
Assisting in general laboratory work such as charting patients’ results, locating data on computer and giving panic values to physicians, providing assistance to lab technologists in any area when necessary, some serum aliquoting, maintaining documentation of assigned functions as required,
escalating any/all issues of questions through appropriate channels; to supervisor/manager
*Assisted physicians on the floors with translating as many patients on the floors were Spanish speaking
Westchester County Medical Center 914-***-**** Valhalla, New York July 1998 Laboratory phlebotomist
To March *Drawing blood from transplant patients including heart, liver and kidney patients (8 1999 months).
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Service Hospital 718-***-**** Bronx, New York March ‘93 Clinical Laboratory technologist training/full time/limited To May ’94 Lincoln Hospital Certificate
Permit/COQ – The City of New York/Department of Health Microbiology Laboratory Technologist training/full time
*Rotated in serology, parasitology, mycobacteriology, mycology and bacteriology
*Cultured patients’ specimens such as sputum, spinal fluid, urine, stool, lung and bronchi Washes, wounds and blood for pathogens which were tested for sensitivity towards different antibiotics
*Used several different stains such as acid fast for mycobacteria, iodine for parasites, acid fast modified for ova, trichrome to distinguish among cysts and trophozoites, and gram for morphology
*Used API microtube biochemical system and MICROSCAN for identification of enterobacteriaceae and other gram bacteria
*Used different media to culture organisms such as MacConckey, CNA, TSA, Chocolate, Campylobacter, Lewis-Jensen and others
*Made use of agglutination and hemagglutination inhibition tests in serology using patients’ blood sera
Blood Bank Laboratory Technologist / Phlebotomist training/full time
*Trained using patients’ blood sera and red blood cells in forward typing, reverse typing, antibody screening, coombs test, panel identification of red blood cell antigens, titrations, eluate test and cross matching reactions to find compatible blood for transfusion patients
*Trained in blood drawing units (about a year)
About Mary Immaculate Hospital Jamaica, New York
April to Department of Cytology/Cyto-Laboratory prep technician /full time June *Prepared cells from lung and bronchi washes, spinal fluid, Papanicolau smears, sputum and 1986 Other specimens on microscopic glass slides
*The cells were air dried and fixed with various solutions of alcohol at different concentrations followed by a stain with eosin and hematoxylin (10 months) June 1986 Cornell University Medical College 212-***-**** New York City, New York Sept 1986 Department of Research/Research Assistant/temporary
*Visited students at various high schools and administered a carbon monoxide test
*Worked with students who were habitual smokers and part of a three year long research Study on the effects of cigarette smoking in the lungs (3 months) Nov 1980 – Midtown Skating Corporation 212-***-**** New York City, New York March 1983 Rink Operator
*Taking care of the injured on the ice, taking care of the ice cutting machinery and refrigeration system (over 2 years)
VOLUNTEER WORK: Mary Immaculate Hospital Jamaica, New York March 1995 Microbiology Laboratory
Aug 1995 *Accession patients’ specimens as they arrived in the laboratory
* Assist in screening urine specimens for nitrate and leukocytes
* Assist with specimens in blood incubator and perform other work as requested by laboratory personnel
Mary Immaculate Hospital Jamaica, New York
Blood Bank Laboratory
* Assist in rechecking the types of donors’ blood
* Assist in laboratory personnel with centrifuging and washing patients’ specimens for antibody screening and cross matching reactions, assisting with incubating blood ACTIVITIES: Ice/Roller skating, horseback riding, reading scientific publications such as Science, Clinical Symposia, Geriatrics,The Lancet, Nature, and Scientific American REFERENCES: Available upon request
OTHER SKILLS: Bilingual/Spanish.
Learned from histology courses in college about the different tissues that make the human body and how they differ from each other histologically after staining under the microscope. Learned about tissue preparation; including fixation, dehydration, embedding, sectioning, and the different stains.
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