GERALD L. WHITE
Bolingbrook,Il.
Summary
Motivated Biomedical Equipment Technician successful in providing biomedical equipment and device installation, maintenance and repairs. Accomplished in carefully inspecting and calibrating equipment during the installation process. Talented in providing safe and functional equipment through safety tests and regular preventive maintenance.
Overview
37
37
years of professional experience
Work History
Biomedical Technician
Insight Hospital and Medical Center
10.2021 - 01.2023
- Responsible for ensuring that medical equipment is safe and effective
- Often working with doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to develop, test, and implement new technologies or procedures
- While also maintaining existing equipment.
Custodian/Building Maintenance/Clerk
United State Postal Service (USPS)
12.2020 - 01.2021
- Responsible for maintaining the cleanliness of a building and the surrounding grounds
- Their duties include vacuuming floors, sanitizing restroom facilities, and collecting trash to ensure the building's occupants have a clean space
- Also, all basic repairs of electrical and small equipment.
Transportation Coordinator/Driver
Safer Foundation
10.2019 - 11.2020
- Oversee transportation logistics and ensured delivers
- Used time management of employment services, following in according to regulations
- Working under the direction of workforce account management team
- Communicating with clients or employers about projects, events or campaign expectations and goals
- Collaborating with all parties to ensure quality programming, and other team members
- Routine vehicle inspections.
Equipment Coordinator/ O.R Manager
McNeal Hospital
11.2018 - 05.2019
- Working under the direction of the Operating Room Manager, the Equipment Coordinator supports OR operations by cataloging, testing, calibrating, and repairing biomedical equipment
- Assist medical and nursing staff in the use and ensures availability for use, Inspect, installs, and performs inventory assessment and preventative maintenance equipment.
Biomedical Equipment Technician III/Site Lead
GE Healthcare
10.2015 - 08.2018
- Directly work with management team as part of an overall project strategy
- Concurrently manage multiple projects that are at various stages in the project life cycle
- Monitor progress of each assigned program/project against the overall plan and act with urgency to notify leadership of any issues that require resolution
- Drive to the root cause of lagging programs/projects and work with executive leadership to define the appropriate mitigation strategies
- Assess, recommend and promote approaches for applying project management methodologies and technologies to large scale programs/projects
- Coordinate cross-functional relationship-building and integration to support program/project success
- Understand the broader business environment, organizational strategy and factor this understanding into customer reviews and finalization of program/project findings and recommendations
- Demonstrated ability to challenge senior stakeholders on critical success factors in accord, NEPA.
Biomedical Equipment Technician II
Rush Medical Center
11.2004 - 06.2014
- Continuous improvement a priority by leveraging experience in advanced project management principles
- Supported daily operations of installation, operating and maintaining medical grade equipment which will be used before, during and after surgical procedures
- Maintained inventory and controlled supplies that were used as part of the daily Operating Room demands and group setup procedures
- Maintained six off site Clinical and three public schools for maintenance support
- Maintained high quality of services for internal and external customers with 96% accuracy rate
- Skilled at installing, maintaining, and repairing various types of patient care equipment.
Signal/Administration/Logistics
06.1986 - 06.2007
- Trained soldiers for Battle Command Staff Training (BCST) missions for deployment
- Conducted Decision Making Process (MDMP) and Tactical Operations Center (TOC) operations
- Assist with Simulation Exercises (SIMEX) and serve as an Observer/Trainer (O/T) for such units as necessary.
Maintenance Tech II/Linemen-Quality Control
Comcast Cable Corporation
11.1999 - 10.2004
- Provided 24 hours, 7 days a week monitoring network operation
- Maintained and installing various active and passive devices
- Perform AC/DC power sources splicing and balancing
- Repaired ingress leaks in accordance with FCC standard, monitoring a voltage signal meter, level/reverse meter, and a leakage detector
- Installed, maintained and repaired several types of cable both above and underground lines
- Also have the duties of Q.C
- (Quality Control) for the Western Area.
Education
Information Technology -
New Horizon Computer Center
Chicago, IL01.2015
Liberal Courses -
MALCOM X COLLEGE
Chicago, IL01.2012
Associates of Science -
BISHOP COLLEGE
Dallas, TX01.1990
Skills
- Preventive Maintenance
- Biomedical Research
- Equipment Validation
- Quality Control Analysis
- Electrosurgical analyzers
- Inventory Counts
- Electronic digital circuitry
- Regulatory Standards
- Documenting service tickets
- Medical Device Repair
- Teamwork orientation
- Installations and repairs
- Equipment Troubleshooting
- OSHA Regulations
- Diagnostic Testing
- System Installation
- Equipment Calibration
- Electronics Calibration
- Training and mentoring
- Troubleshooting skills
Timeline
Biomedical Technician
Insight Hospital and Medical Center
10.2021 - 01.2023
Custodian/Building Maintenance/Clerk
United State Postal Service (USPS)
12.2020 - 01.2021
Transportation Coordinator/Driver
Safer Foundation
10.2019 - 11.2020
Equipment Coordinator/ O.R Manager
McNeal Hospital
11.2018 - 05.2019
Biomedical Equipment Technician III/Site Lead
GE Healthcare
10.2015 - 08.2018
Biomedical Equipment Technician II
Rush Medical Center
11.2004 - 06.2014
Maintenance Tech II/Linemen-Quality Control
Comcast Cable Corporation
11.1999 - 10.2004
Signal/Administration/Logistics
06.1986 - 06.2007
Information Technology -
New Horizon Computer Center
Liberal Courses -
MALCOM X COLLEGE
Associates of Science -
BISHOP COLLEGE
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