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- Promptly triage all patients, determine appropriate resources, and initiate standing orders.- Obtain and run labs (CBC, CMP, etc.) and relay results while differentiating critical findings.- Maintained routine paramedic skills, added ultrasound-guided vascular access to inventory.- Took on medical scribe responsibilities to promote contract transition, continued as needed.- Revised ordering process to increase productivity and reduce waste, implemented overhaulof facility supply layout, increased visibility – promoted to oversee ordering for LER-Allen.

Greenville, Texas, United States

- Over 10,000 hours on shift in a 9-1-1 response system averaging 14-15k calls per year.- Effectively empowered a joint EMT-firefighter response team in providing life-savingemergency care and transport of critically injured patients via ambulance or helicopter.- Obtain detailed medical history, perform initial and ongoing assessments, administermedication, initiate intravenous or intraosseous access, intubate patients and monitor viaventilator, interpret EKGs, and initiate defibrillation, pacing, and cardioversion as needed.

Annapolis, Maryland, United States

- Four-year university and leadership training institute to commission as a U.S. Navy officer.- Honorably discharged at 3 years in the curriculum due to medical injury during training.- Tactfully engaged command resources working as a Sexual Assault Responder for 2 years.- Volunteer and later president of the “Mids for Kids” local school volunteering organization.- Varsity athlete, walk-on bowman for the Varsity Offshore Sailing Team - sophomore year.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Psychology

Associate Of Science, Emergency Medical Services