Catherine Critz

A multi-skilled individual with extensive lab and healthcare experience as a clinical lab assistant, phlebotomist, QMAP and CNA. I am looking for a full-time job that would utilize my healthcare knowledge and computer skills.

Clinical Lab Assistant / Phlebotomist at Sonora Quest Laboratories (2025 – 2026-09)

• Clinical Lab Assistant at Banner McKee Hospital in the Microbiology department
• Phlebotomy Technician at Banner Sterling Hospital in the General Lab, ER and Hematology departments
• Confident with Cerner electronic healthcare records software
• Confident with patient care, phlebotomy, General Lab and Microbiology SOPs
• Confident with specimen handling, sterile body fluids, WASP, Liat, aerobic, anaerobic, fungus plating, AFB, blood cultures, gram stains, KN and auramine stains
• Extensive experience with inmates from Sterling DOC daily providing care and labs
• Extensive experience with officers and inmates daily

Certified Nursing Assistant at Devonshire Acres (2023 – 2024)

Long-term care CNA and QMAP at Devonshire Acres (Sterling, CO)

• 130 bed rehabilitation and memory care skilled nursing facility
• Daily vital signs recording and charting
• Confident with medication passing
• Confident with hospice care

Practice Manager/Technician at RedBarn Veterinary Services (2016 – 2022)

Practice Management small animal practice (sold November 2022)

• Contacting clients and scheduling patient surgeries, examinations, and after-care follow-up
• Preparing the surgical suite for surgical procedures
• Veterinary Technician/Nurse duties of for exams and surgical procedures
• Management of employee performance, growth, and payroll processing
• Management of patient records and lab results

IT Solutions Coordinator at Colorado State University (2010 – 2020)

IT Coordination for the Biochemistry, Chemistry and Biology departments at Colorado State University

• Managed biochemistry equipment solutions including Confocal microscopy, Slidebook6, Odyssey CLX, Typhoon instruments.
• Oversaw 24 servers and 1000+ workstations, desktops, and mobile devices for faculty, staff, and labs in the College of Natural Science.
• Directed IT budgets and procurement of hardware/software.
• Administered network systems spanning DHCP, DNS, NAS, Windows Servers (2003-2019), Linux Servers, and Apache servers.
• Developed and maintained IT systems, software, and databases, alongside departmental web pages using Word Press.
• Trained new staff and oriented new faculty into departmental IT systems.
• Managed biochemistry lab instrument service contract administration.

Certified Neuro Intraoperative Montorist (CNIM) at Sentient Medical Systems (2009 – 2010)

Neuro Intraoperative Monitoring for brain, spinal and ENT surgeries

• Extensive knowledge of human anatomy and physiology
• Extensive knowledge of the 12 cranial nerves and their function
• Extensive knowledge of the 3 spinal tracts: dorsal column-medial lemniscus pathway (DCML), anterolateral system (ALS) and spinocerebellar system
• Extensive knowledge of human anesthesia
• Use of electrophysiological modalities to record nervous system functioning during various types of surgeries. Most surgeries were spinal cord surgeries, brain surgeries or thyroid/parathyroid surgeries where the recurrent laryngeal nerve was at risk
• Creating patient records, monitoring data, and creating a final intraoperative report for the medical team and my employer
• Worked with several surgeons, nurses, surgical assistants, radiology, and anesthesia nurses within a hospital setting in Denver and Colorado Springs

M.S. in Biomedical Sciences – Colorado State University

B.S. in Biology – Colorado State University

M.S. in Computer Science – National University

B.S. in Computer Science – San Diego State University