Medical Technologist SAB, MS, MPA MT(ASCP) SBB

Emmett Gourdine MT(ASCP) SBB

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Phone: 808-***-****

E-mail: **************@*****.***

Objectives

To utilized my managerial and technical skills at a blood bank, healthcare, or biotechnology organization

Summary of Qualifications

• Twenty-one years of donor center and laboratory management experience

• Provided leadership and management to organizations of over 800 people

• Established apheresis technology for the military in Iraq

• Managed budgets of over 3 million dollars

• Black Belt trained in Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma

• Possess a SECRET security clearance

• Certified Specialist in Blood Banking by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists

Professional Experience

Director of Blood Bank Services (2007 – Present)

Tripler Army Medical Center (Honolulu, HI)

• Purchased state-of-the donor testing equipment costing over 2 million dollars.

• Implemented the Neoteric Blood Track Barcode Point of Care System for the hospital.

Director, Camp Memorial Blood Center and Troop Commander (2005 – 2007)

Ireland Army Hospital (Fort Knox, KY)

• Provided testing for three donor centers that collected over 30,000 blood products annually.

• Relocated donor center to Fort Benning, GA; increased donor collections by 30% and saved the Government over $2 million in annual operating cost.

• Troop Commander and Chief of Personnel for Ireland Army Hospital’s 800 military and civilian personnel. Union negotiator for the hospital.

Laboratory Manager (2004 – 2005)

31st Combat Support Hospital (Baghdad, Iraq)

• Provided over 10,000 blood products and collected 770 donor whole blood units for massively bleeding patients.

• Implemented first ever plateletpheresis collections using the Haemonetics MCS+ 9000 LN.

Laboratory Manager and Chief of Blood Bank Services (2002 – 2004)

William Beaumont Army Medical Center (El Paso, TX)

• Directed a $2.3 million dollar laboratory and donor center renovation project.

• Directed a $1.5 million donor center relocation project.

Director, Blood Donor Center (2001– 2002)

3276th US Army Reserve Blood Donor Center (Fort Bragg, NC)

• Coordinated wartime collection program that increased whole blood donations from 500 to 900 per month in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

• Trained Special Forces medical personnel in collecting and transfusing blood products in Afghanistan.

Senior Healthcare Consultant (2000– 2001)

Birch and Davis, INC (Falls Church, VA)

• Supervised blood donor recruiters at 12 military installations for the Department of Defense Armed Service Blood Program.

• Developed surveys and performed statistical analysis on the US Navy volunteer donor population impacted by new variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease deferral.

Quality Assurance Officer (1998– 2000)

Womack Army Medical Center (Fort Bragg, NC)

• Established a quality auditing program that contributed to the donor center’s successful FDA and AABB inspections.

• Helped in the design and relocation of the donor center that increased donor collections by 15%.

Director, Blood Donor Center (1997– 1998)

Womack Army Medical Center (Fort Bragg, NC)

• Revamped donor center operation resulting in no FDA findings in 1998.

• Developed plans to relocate the donor center to improve donor collections.

Korea Area Joint Blood Program Officer (1996– 1997)

US Forces Korea (Seoul, Korea)

• Managed over 25,000 frozen blood units stored throughout Korea.

• Presented blood bank operational war plans to over 200 senior-level officers.

Director, US Forces Korea Blood Donor Center (1995– 1996)

US Forces Korea (Seoul, Korea)

• Revamped plateletpheresis program and improved collections by 75%.

• Purchased 4 Haemonetics MCS + for mobile apheresis collections.

• Implemented deglycerolization training for donor center personnel.

Laboratory Manager (1992–1994)

Dewitt Army Hospital (Fort Belvoir, VA)

• Established a total quality management program in the laboratory.

• Modernized laboratory with state of the art equipment worth over $900,000.

Chief Medical Technologist (1990–1992)

Ireland Army Hospital (Fort Knox, KY)

• Organized a cross-training program that improved laboratory efficiency.

• Provided leadership workshops for department supervisors.

Chief, Blood Processing Center (1988–1990)

Ireland Army Hospital (Fort Knox, KY)

• Supervised the processing and testing of over 24,000 donor units annually.

• Managed a large-scale Hepatitis C Virus testing for the Army Blood Program.

Education

Specialist in Applied Biology (1995)

Master in Biology

Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH)

Master in Public Administration (1994)

Troy State University (Troy, AL)

Bachelor in Medical Technology (1986)

Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston, SC)

Publications

• Abstract: Collecting Single Donor Platelets for Massively Bleeding Patients at a US Army Combat Support Hospital in Iraq, Transfusion, September 2006.

• Contributing Author: Bacteria Recovered from Patients Admitted to a Deployed U.S. Military Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Military Medicine, September 2006.

• Contributing Author: Bacteriology of War Wounds at the Time of Injury, Military Medicine, September 2006.

• Combat Hospitals in Iraq are Saving Lives by Collecting Single Donor Platelets, Society Scope, Society of Armed Services Medical Laboratory Scientists, Summer 2006.

• Contributing Author: Acinetobacter baumannii Infections Among Patients at Military Medical Facilities Treating Injured U.S. Service Members, 20022004, Centers of Disease Control weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report, November 19, 2004.

• Thesis: Providing Single Donor Platelets in a Theater Medical Environment for Massively Bleeding Patients, August 1995.

Availability

I will be available for employment in September 2010 after retirement from the US Army.

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