Medical Technician

John H. Adkins, Phone# 972-***-****

Email: *********@*****.***, Website: www.jha-usa.t35.com

Licenses and Certifications:

AAMI (Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation)

Certified Biomedical Equipment Technician

I had attended vendor classes on almost all of the biomedical equipment I worked on.

General Radio Telephone FCC License/w Radar Endorsement

TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) Certification

Ham radio license call sign WB0IAL

Scuba Diving PADI Open Water Certification

Full Time Work History:

Sept. 30, 2010 to current - Biomedical Equipment Technician (BMET), Link Facility Services

On site repair, preventive maintenance, & electrical safety inspections of medical equipment at Kindred Hospital of Dallas. Some of the equipment consists of, infusion pumps, defibrillators, EKG machines, intensive care monitors, telemetry transmitters, sterilizers, centrifuges, and various other hospital equipment.

May 1988 - Jan. 2001 - U.S. Government; General Services Administration (GSA); Fort Worth, TX (Retired)

Telecommunications/Computer Specialist July 1990 - Jan. 2001

Served as Systems Administrator responsible for the hardware and software support required for the operation of the HP-UX/ORACLE based Telecommunications Ordering and Pricing System (TOPS). Responsibilities included installing, testing, and problem solving for the Telecommunications data communications in the Division Office and associated field offices. Systems were Novell, Windows NT, Windows 95/98/2K/XP. Maintained the Telecommunications field offices PC hardware and software. Installed & Maintained Octel Voice Mail Systems. Taught seminars and classes for all field personnel covering a 15 state area.

May 1988 - July 1990 – U.S. Government (GSA) Chief of Operations Branch; Fort Worth, TX

Managed the Data Processing Center and supervised 20 employees on three shifts, five days a week. Equipment consisted of 2 Honeywell DPS8 Mainframes, 3 front end processors, a nationwide X.25 communications network, and associated data communications equipment. Assigned work, wrote new job performance plans and performance descriptions, and met with division directors on a routine basis to assess product delivery performance. Conducted training seminars for customers and over 20 branch employees.

1984 - 1988 General Datacom Industries; Senior Systems Engineer

Job responsibilities include supporting major accounts, developing new business, and engineering of data communications equipment and networks. Held presentations and seminars for prospective customers.

1983 - 1984 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Fort Worth, TX Computer Equipment Analyst

Responsible for support and maintenance of the Southwestern Divisions data communications network. Held training seminars for district data processing personnel.

1977 - 1983 National Weather Service; San Antonio, TX Electronic Technician

Supported and maintained the San Antonio communications network. Support included troubleshooting, identifying, resolving, repairing communications and computer equipment problems. Expert for the Radar and Automated Field Observation Systems for the South/Central Texas Area.

1973 - 1977 U.S. Army Medical Laboratory & (BAMC) Brooke Army Medical Center; Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX Bio-Medical Engineering Technician

I performed maintenance and sustained support on biomedical equipment for the Army. My duties included new equipment evaluations, risk assessments, incident investigation and equipment repair, and safety inspections of medical equipment to meet OSHA, NFPA, NEC & Hospital Accreditation guidelines. Provided reports to the US Army for the acquisition, logistics management of new and replacement medical equipment. Examples of the equipment to evaluated included physiological monitors; endoscopes; all types of laboratory equipment; lasers for surgery, microscopes, sterilizers, surgical cauterizers, physical therapy equipment and CCU/ICU diagnostic monitoring equipment. Responsible for evaluation, diagnosis, and identification of equipment manufacturing defects. Repaired (to component level), and made modifications to bio-medical equipment, such as: Dialysis Machines, Blood Gas Machines, Spacelabs & HP Heart Monitors, EKG Machines, Holter Monitoring Equipment, and other hospital equipment. Responsible for training graduates of the US Army Bio-medical Training Center in Denver, CO. and other civilian bio-medical technicians, in the testing of all hospital rooms emergency rooms and surgical rooms for electrical safety, and repair of bio-medical equipment.

1970 - 1973 St. Johns Mercy Medical Center, a 1500 bed medical center; St. Louis, MO Bio-Medical Electronic Technician

Responsible for repair (to component level), and modification of medical center bio-medical equipment, such as; Dialysis Machines, Blood Gas Machines, Marquette EKG Machines, HP Heart Monitors, and other hospital equipment Responsible for training other bio-medical personnel in the testing of all hospital rooms emergency rooms and surgical rooms for electrical safety, and repair of bio-medical equipment.

1969 - 1970 Stromberg Products Inc. Field Service Technician

Responsibilities included repairing time clocks and electronic time systems.

Contract work history:

2005-2006 Valeo/Zexel International worked as a computer consultant. Performing backups, software modifications, to their AS-400 computer system, running JD Edwards software and maintaining their EDI PC programs.

2002-2004 American Academy of Art & Technology, Euless, TX Senior ESL Instructor

Responsible for; scheduling computer classes, preparing lesson plans, coordinating classes with the teaching staff. Teaching English to children, teenagers, and adults, teaching business English, teaching basic HTML webpage development course, and substitute teach for other English teachers. Instructor for the TESL Teacher Training Course.

July 2001 - Oct. 2001 Text and Talk Academy; Bangkok, Thailand English Teacher

Completed an 8 week TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) training class at Text & Talk Academy in Bangkok, Thailand. I taught adult and business English classes at Text & Talk Academy for several more months before returning to the U.S.A.

Personal:

Date of Birth: August 20, 1945, USA citizenship

Military Service: U.S. Air Force 1/1965-12/1968, Honorable Discharge, Rank E-4

Vietnam Era Veteran, Repaired aerial photographic aircraft camera systems.

U.S. Army Reserve 1973-1975, MOSC 91A, Medical Equipment Repairer, Rank E-6

Education:

San Antonio Community College, 26 Hrs. Computer Science

University of Texas Health Science Center, 11 Hrs. Bio-Medical Engineering

University of Maryland, 24 Hrs. Computer Science

Florissant Valley Community College, 32 Hrs. Electronic Engineering

I had attended vendor classes on almost all of the biomedical equipment I worked on.

Some of the many vendor training schools and seminars I attended.

AT& T Voice Communications I & II 2 Weeks

Intro to Unix 1 Week

Intro to "C" Programming 1 Week

Oracle Systems Administration I & II Version 6 2 Weeks

Rbase Relational Database Management Systems Intro & Advanced 1 Week

Enable Relational Database Management Systems Intro & Advanced 1 Week

Hewlett Packard UP-UX (Unix) Systems Administration 3 Weeks

Fox Pro 2.6 Intro & Advanced 1 Week

Honeywell Front End Processors & Data Communications Network Administration 3 Weeks

Government Contracting Procedures 1 Week

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