Kinlin Watts

Specimen Handling: Receiving, sorting, scanning, data entry, centrifuging, aliquoting, and preparing specimen for testing.

Administrative Tasks: Completing logs, filing records, managing data entry, and handling phone/email inquiries.

Support: Assisting technologists and pathologists, troubleshooting specimen issues, and archiving samples.

Lab assistant hematology - Labcorp - Birmingham, AL

(2024-05)

• Specimen Handling: Receiving, sorting, scanning, data entry, centrifuging, aliquoting, and preparing specimen for testing.
• Administrative Tasks: Completing logs, filing records, managing data entry, and handling phone/email inquiries.
• Support: Assisting technologists and pathologists, troubleshooting specimen issues, and archiving samples.
• Safety & Compliance: Following Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), and maintaining a clean, safe workspace.

Lab assistant - Sonic healthcare - Birmingham, AL

(2022-06 - 2024-05)

• Prepare instruments for daily operations
• Follow HIPPA regulations and Standard Precautions
• Perform testing on patient samples
• Evaluate sample integrity to ensure accurate results
• Review and interpret results
• Communicate critical values in a timely manner
• Troubleshoot instruments with the assistance of the Lab Manager and Technical Services
• Assist in monitoring inventory of supplies and reagents
• Communicate issues to management in a timely manner
• Assist in performing CLIA waived tests
• Assist in ordering and preparing samples for outsourced testing

Endoscopy technician - Surgery partners - Homewood, AL

(2021-05 - 2022-06)

• Sterilizes and prepares rooms and equipment, such as scopes, before and after procedures as directed.
• Supports and assists physicians and registered nurses with procedures as directed.
• Verifies proper equipment functioning and performs safety checks.
• Maintains and/or repairs endoscopic equipment.
• Collects and delivers specimens collected during procedures, ensuring the field remains sterile.
• Assists in patient intake, transport, paperwork, and record keeping of physician observations, as directed.
• Places devices to monitor vital signs on patients, including blood pressure cuffs, surgical cautery pads, cardiac monitoring electrodes, pulse oximeter sensors, and nasal cannulas.
• Distributes information regarding equipment or instruments at in-service training sessions.
• Validates and refreshes basic professional skills through active participation at in-service trainings.

Lab assistant - Bio life plasma - Hoover, AL

(2019-09 - 2021-05)

• Perform sample receiving/accessioning/processing according to SOP.
• Perform sample centrifugation according to SOP as applicable to assigned area.
• Responsible for discarding samples.
• Request and receive back-up samples if applicable to assigned area.
• Perform equipment maintenance and sample management functions to ensure accuracy and appropriate sample processing is performed and completed so testing is performed in a timely manner.

High school diploma or equivalent - Woodlawn high school Birmingham, AL