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Northern New Jersey

Manage a territory spanning Northern New Jersey and New York with over 140 contracts with worth over $1M for ambulatory surgical centers, teaching and non-teaching hospitals, and physician offices. Provide in-servicing to several different groups including: staff members, physicians, management, and departments such as Biomed, Operating Room, Infection Control, Endoscopy, Central Sterile, and more. Discuss contract consumption due to inventory damages and provide repair reduction in-servicing as well as preventative measures to lower consumption, with higher management and decision makers. Conduct pre-contract inspections of scopes that will be covered by a new contract after coming from a third party repair company. Case support when using new equipment. Assist in sales support, demo, and installation support of new equipment. Host educational seminars virtually and in-person that extends over a period of several days.

Greater New York City Area

Assist and anticipate the needs of the surgeon in various surgical cases. Prepare and check instrumentation, equipment, and any positioning devices prior to the surgical case. Maintain a sterile field and report break in sterility during a surgical procedure. Perform sponge, needle, and instrument counts with the circulating nurse. General Surgery Lead Tech. Preceptor for General Surgery for all new incoming surgical technologist and scrubbing RNs. Help facilitate ordering and fixing of instruments by contacting the correct department. Look after the General service when the team leader is out. Unit Council Committee Member. Create presentations and perform in-service meetings regarding surgical procedures.Familiar with the use of ORManager to view current and future schedules and to create/edit surgeon preference cards.I am a highly motivated individual with experience in multiple specialties to include: General Surgery, Bariatrics, Maxillofacial, ECMO cases, Liver and Kidney Transplants, Labor and Delivery, Orthopedics (spines, pinnings/hardware, soft tissue), Neurology, Urology (cystos, circs, & more), Reconstructive Plastics (clefts, ear reconstruction, & more), ENT (DL, Bronchs, T&A, BMT, Trachs, BAHA), Ophthalmology.First CST member for the Fetal Intervention Program (started in 2016) and the EXIT Team.CPR Certified and up-to-date. Certified through the NBSTSA and a member of the AST. I have created Surgical Tech Week Awareness by creating reading material, presentation board/table, and show-casing our staff for public knowledge.

Manhattan, Ny

Ambulatory Surgery Center. Assist and anticipate the needs of the surgeon in various surgical cases. Prepare and check instrumentation, equipment, and any positioning devices prior to the surgical case. Maintain a sterile field and report break in sterility during a surgical procedure. Perform sponge, needle, and instrument counts with the circulating nurse. Set up rooms with equipment for the next days cases.Cosmetic Plastics (Blephs, abdominoplasty, rhinos, mastopexy), Orthopedics (scopes, ACL, Rotator cuffs, soft tissue, & hardware), ENT (T&A, FESS, hearing implants), Podiatry (arthroplasty, bunionectomy), GYN, Urology (Cysto, TURB, Penile Implants), and Ophthamology (Vitrectomy, PHACO-IOL, Scleral Buckle, Corneal Transplant).

Celebration, Fl

Schedule patient appointments, answer multiple phone lines, insurance verification and co-pay collection, customer service inquiries, handled and verified incoming and outgoing pathology slides.

Microsoft Excel Pivot Tables

Certificate, Surgical Technology/Technologist

Graduated with acceptance into the National Technical Honor Society. NBSTSA Certified. Member of the Association of Surgical Technologists.

Diploma, General

Activities and Societies: Member of the softball team.