Fabricator/Orthopedic Technician II
• Preventive maintenance on all assistive devices for residents. Such as wheelchairs, gait trainers, adaptive chairs, and all other required adaptive equipment.
• Fabricate seating systems through direct foam pours or through casting systems with a prairie simulator.
• Build casting negatives for the seating systems
• Upholster and re-upholster all seating systems and any device that needs padding, covering and protective barriers to benefit both resident and keeping integrity of apparatus intact.
• Fabricate gait training padding systems, and gait trainer modifications.
• Recreate and modify entire wheelchair systems as well as entire modification of protective paddings for tables beds and walls.
• Responsible for managing and ordering all supplies related to and used in the state supported living centers fabrication department.
• Work with occupational therapists and physical therapists to enhance and better the living conditions of the residents through their adaptive equipment.
• Manage entire fabrication department and technicians in department.
Bio-medical Equipment Technician
02/12/2007-11/1/2011 El Paso TX
• Preventive maintenance of all dialysis machines and all dialysis related equipment.
• Troubleshoot and repair any and all dialysis machines.
• Preventive maintenance and repairs on reverse osmosis unit and water loops distribution system including SDS system.
• Responsible for managing and ordering all supplies related to and used in the dialysis treatment.
• Responsible for ordering all medications for the clinic.
• Repair and upkeep entire building from replacing lights to large painting and remodeling projects.
• Work with outside contractors when services required.
• Responsible for drawing cultures and taking necessary action upon obtaining results.
• Report monthly summary being clinical and technical to QAI committee.
• Manage technical aspect for not one but two major dialysis clinics within a 100 mile radius
Marketing Director / Account Executive
08/24/06-02/11/2007 Altomar NM Santa Teresa, NM.
• Educate physicians, case managers, social workers, and office managers on services we provide covered by state and private insurances.
• Provide information about company (brochures, and order forms).
• Scheduled and conducted in services and educational meetings.
• Obtained prior authorizations from all pay sources for patient services.
• Delivered and picked up orders from offices.
• Provided catering services fro physicians’ offices and hospitals.
Medical, Referral, Prescription Assistant
04/26/05-08/13/06 Santa Teresa Medical Santa Teresa, NM
• Assist doctor with all medical treatment of patient.
• Refill all medications, and change all scripts as directed by physician.
• Fill out and mail all referrals for patients that require a specialist through provider books, phone and internet.
• File all incoming medical reports, and medical records.
• Conduct vital signs, electrocardiograms, culture collections, drug screens, audio screens, eye exams, glucose checks, give injections, immunizations, give medications, dressing changes, pulmonary function tests, h-pylori breath tests Adult and pediatric venipuncture for lab work.
Purchasing Assistant
01/03/04-04/11/05 Mimbres Memorial Hospital Deming, NM.
• Stocked entire hospital of 6 facilities including a nursing home.
• Received all merchandise and all orders placed by purchase order.
• Put all purchase orders in computer as receivers.
• Was knowledgeable in all OR supplies and special order supplies.
• Send purchase orders out for payment.
• Worked with all vendors that delivered to the facility.
• Knew all facility stock rooms by heart and was able to give in-services on supplies to new employees.
• Was on call 24 hours every other week.
Inventory Controller
01/13/03-01/12/04 DaVita, Incorporated El Paso, TX.
• Stock facilities for the acute dialysis units.
• Identify machines for repair to bio-medical technician.
• Pick-up and deliver equipment for maintenance and repairs as needed.
• Coordinate ordering and maintaining stock levels with facility administrator.
• Operate the company truck as instructed.
• Service truck and keep it clean and organized.
• Provide inventory of supplies in truck and in office each month.
• Obtain cultures from all machines monthly as required.
• Return results of machine cultures to Administrator.
• Repeat cultures on machines that come back positive.
• Disinfect machines on a monthly basis.
• Bleach machines as needed.
• Order supplies using purchase orders.
• Send purchase orders out for payment.
Certified Nursing assistant for Intensive Care Unit
11/6/2000-1/11/2003 Sierra Medical Center El Paso, TX
• Set up cubicles for heart, brain, back, and any other critical care required surgery.
• Take vital signs
• Start flow sheet booklets for new admit patients.
• Bathe patients as needed or as requested by nurse or patient.
• Stock cubicles with supplies needed for the care of patients.
• Keep utility rooms clean and presentable as per OSHA, JACHO standards.
• Assist nurses with patient care while patients are in the unit.
• Transfer patients to their new rooms, MRI, CT scan and discharge.