Beverly Ohene
North Bethesda,MD
Summary
Experienced Pharmacy Technician with extensive knowledge of pharmacy operations, ready to contribute talent and expertise to the NIH Clinical Center. Skilled in efficiently and precisely preparing intravenous prescription orders, while also building strong relationships with the medical staff responsible for patient care. Committed to driving business growth and ensuring customer retention through exceptional customer service. A team-oriented professional dedicated to collaborative success.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Pharmacy Technician
National Institute of Health
Bethesda, MD
04.2017 - Current
- Prepared IV admixtures using aseptic techniques including STATS, parenteral bags and cytotoxic agents
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Troubleshoot the automated Pyxis medication dispensing machines
- Supper user for BD Cato and Omincell automation medication systems
- Assists the QA Tech in quarterly qualifications according to the SOPs
- Orientates and trains newly hired technicians in preparing them for their Media Fill
- Supported inventory management initiatives through accurate record-keeping of received shipments and expired medications for disposal purposes.
- Logs investigational drugs according to department policy to maintain inventory balance and prepare IV investigational drugs
- Proficient with bar code medication administration and computerized prescriber
- Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
- Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
Intern-Database Reliability Engineer (ON-PREMISES and AWS CLOUD)
Chaveran Inc
Bowie, MD
07.2019 - 12.2022
- Create and maintain databases for development, test, and production environments
- Analyze, test, and implement physical database design
- Document environment and maintain current patches
- Ensure data recovery, maintenance, data integrity, and space requirements for physical database
- Audit the current environments, provide capacity planning and best practices for the future development/test/production environments, which may include establishing new standards and procedures
- Conduct performance assessment and tuning as related to the database system
- Provides technical knowledge working with system administrators, technical managers, developers, and architects
- Provide software developers with database changes
- Proactively address issues that may arise in lower environments which would cause a slowdown in software development
- Utilize monitoring solutions to provide prompt alerting of issues and outages
- Assist with building and maintaining database infrastructure using industry best practices to ensure reliability, security, capacity, and performance
- Determine database structural requirements, analyze client operations, workflows, applications, and operating systems
- Review objectives with clients, evaluate current systems
- Install database application software (Oracle and PostgreSQL), coordinate installation and provide supporting documents for Standards of Operations (SoPs)
- Evaluate data accuracy, completeness, timeliness and stability to establish repeatable, sustainable processes to maintain data integrity.
Pharmacy Tech III
Washington Hospital Center
Washington, DC
08.2004 - 04.2017
- Prepared IV admixtures using aseptic techniques including STATS, parenteral bags and cytotoxic agents
- Assisted pharmacists in the preparation and dispensing of IV admixtures with an emphasis on cancer chemotherapy agents
- Troubleshoot the automated medication dispensing machines and transported to assigned nursing units
- Entered physician orders into the hospital computer system to update or edit patient profiles and charges.
Pharmacy Tech
Walmart
Fredericksburg, VA
08.2002 - 08.2004
- Entered prescription information into computer system and printed labels for use by pharmacist personnel
- Reconstituted medications by mixing with fluids
- Answered customer inquiries and assisted customers, nurses and physicians with prescription requests and medications related needs
- Ordered medication for inventory control, coordinated and communicated with insurance companies in handling and resolving third party claims.
Education
B.S., Biology -
Shaw University
Raleigh, NC05.2001
Skills
- Excellent team player, written communication and organizational skills
- Medical Terminology, Verbal and Technical Writing, EPIC, CRIS, BD Cato and Pyxis
- Proficient with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Time and Project Management, Critical and Analytical Thinking, Self-Starter
- Knowledge of SQL, PL SQL AWS Clouds
- Problem-solving skills
- Team Collaboration
- Confidentiality and HIPAA
- Workflow Optimization
Certification
- Certificate - PTCB. Awarded a certificate as a Nationally Certified Pharmaceutical Technician.
- License - Maryland Board of Pharmacy. Licensed as a Pharmacy Technician in the state of Maryland.
References
Available upon request
Timeline
Intern-Database Reliability Engineer (ON-PREMISES and AWS CLOUD)
Chaveran Inc
07.2019 - 12.2022
Pharmacy Technician
National Institute of Health
04.2017 - Current
Pharmacy Tech III
Washington Hospital Center
08.2004 - 04.2017
Pharmacy Tech
Walmart
08.2002 - 08.2004
B.S., Biology -
Shaw University