Donor Specialist/Phlebotomist - Lifestream Blood Bank - Palm Desert, CA
(2025-04 - 2026-06)
Mobile team
- Register donors, verify identity/eligibility, and manage appointments
- Conduct health screenings including vital signs, hemoglobin checks, and medical history reviews
- Perform blood collection (venipuncture), including whole blood and apheresis, while monitoring donors throughout the process
- Provide donor care by observing for reactions and ensuring safe recovery after donation
- Handle blood units and lab samples, maintain equipment, and follow strict quality control and safety procedures
- Maintain accurate records, deliver strong customer service, support donor recruitment efforts, and assist with mobile blood drives
Correction Collector - Brio Clinical Inc. - Imperial, CA
(2023-05 - 2025-02)
- Maintain strict personal adherence to infection prevention and control measures and procedures
- Administer COVID-19 point of care Rapid Antigen nasal swab
- Input patient demographics into data base
- Update results
Phlebotomist (Contract) - Kaiser Permanente - Anaheim, CA
(2023-10 - 2024-04)
- Collect blood from patients and prepare the samples for testing
- Labeled transfer tubes and followed exact directions for handling and storing specimens for transport
- Completed proper sanitation and cleaning of equipment and work areas between patients
- Established and maintained positive working relationships with patients, staff and clinical personnel to build trust
- Collected blood samples using vacutainer tubes, tourniquets, syringes, butterfly needles, and straight needles
- Adhered to HIPAA standards and maintained patient confidentiality in all interactions
Night Shift Lead - IEM, Inc, Innovative Emergency Management - Holtville, CA
(2022-11 - 2023-09)
- Managed communication between associates and management, addressing key issues and needs
- Perform intake gather families documentation and provide tour of shelter
- Observed each team member to carry out duties and provided constructive criticism
- Trained staff members to perform inventory management, customer service and maintenance
- Collaborated with other departments to optimize production workflows
- Support and implement decisions made by management
- Enter clients demographics into the data base
- Assign rooms to clients for their 2 day stay until time of travel
FrontEnd Services - Walmart - El Centro, CA
(2021-09 - 2022-03)
- Operate POS cash registers, handling 92 transactions on an average daily
- Maintain through knowledge of store merchandise, and responsible for selling store credit cards
- Open and close the registers, assisting in the training of 4 new cashiers, monitoring cash limits and ensuring quality customer service at all times
- Remained punctual and professional at all times
- Cash checks, provide money orders, send money to different locations
Patient Service Representative - Quest Diagnostics - El Centro, CA
(2020-10 - 2021-03)
- Performed lab procedures on 40+ patients daily
- Utilized vacutainer tube, syringe, and venipuncture butterfly methods to draw blood from veins
- Recorded patients vitals when performing Blueprints
- Clean and sterilized instruments and dispose of contaminated supplies
- Enter patient records, specimen, insurance and billing information into the system
- Practice proper patient identification
- Input patient insurance & verify eligibility
