Goriola Junaid
Summary
Dynamic operations manager with extensive experience at Peakpoint Midtown West Ortho ASC, excelling in sterilization techniques and infection control. Proven track record in enhancing quality assurance and optimizing supply chain management. Adept at team building, I effectively lead and train staff to ensure compliance and operational excellence in sterile processing environments.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Manager
Peakpoint Midtown West Ortho ASC
03.2023 - Current
- Prioritizes, directs, and coordinates all sterile processing functions and activities
- Interprets policies, procedures, standards, and regulations as is appropriate to personnel/nursing and medical staff
- Carry out responsibilities of Sterile processing technician as required. Prepares work schedules, assigns personnel, evaluates work performance, and makes recommendations for personnel action
- Maintains established departmental policies, procedures, objectives, Quality Assurance program, safety, environmental, and infection control standards
- Coordinates Central Supply/Services with operating room functions and nursing unit/area functions and other user departments to provide services promptly and efficiently
- Sterilizes instruments, equipment, and supplies as the need arises; handles and stores these items appropriately
- Maintains the cleanliness of work areas as required
- Supervises the requisition, sorting, labeling, and issuance of professional equipment
- Coordinates sterilization, assembly, and storage of medical supplies and equipment
- Ensures staff compliance with sterilization techniques, policies, and procedures
- Supervises, trains, and evaluates the performance of staff
- Priorities, schedules, assigns, and monitors work of the staff to optimize operational service
- Ensures sterilization activities are accurately detailed and participates in the maintenance of department records
- Co-ordinate the activities in all areas in the department:
- Responsible for the maintenance and sterility of all supplies and instruments used during the day in the OR
- Direct and supervise personnel performance evaluations, scheduling, orientating, and training.
- Make recommendations on employee hires, discipline, and corrective actions.
- Resolves complaints and other personnel issues within the department.
- Preparation of schedules for departmental staff
- Scheduling in service with vendors/ reps or in -house
- Set up or assemble new trays and make labels. Manages staff, evaluations, scheduling, orientation, and training
Consultant
Sterile Processing Institute of HealthCare
02.2020 - Current
- Offers course preparation for the certification of intending and current sterile processing technicians.
- Responsible for providing initial training, continuing education and competency assessment for employees. Ensuring they are prepared to perform sterile processing duties as per Instructions for use (IFU), standards, guidelines and facilities practice.
- Specializes in training and re training of sterile processing technicians.
- Specialized in decontaminating and sterilizing instruments for use in medical procedures and the assembling of Case Cart System
- Transport/Picked instruments and supplies for surgeries.
- Wrapped trays, instrument packs and sets.
- Recorded biological and test results and Prepared instruments for sterilization.
Operations Manager Evening Shift
Elmhurst Medical Center Queens New York
Queens, New York
12.2023 - 07.2025
- Manages the cleaning, sterilization, and disinfection of all reusable medical instruments in the facility.
- Collaborates with clinics and hospital managers to ensure staff competency and compliance with sterilization and high-level disinfection process, documentation, standard of practice and policies.
- Manages sterile processing and adjusts technician schedules as required.
- Ensure proper and coordinated flow of sterile equipment and patient care surgical instruments to all operating rooms.
- Reports time sensitive information or non-compliance to director of nursing and infection control department.
- Creates and enforces departmental policies and procedures to meet organizational goals.
Manager
Medical Forefront Management Solutions
01.2021 - 01.2024
- Manage operations within the Sterile Processing Department
- Ensures CPD staff follows the cleaning procedures recommended by the manufacturer of all products. Running daily and weekly tests for all departmental autoclaves and washers and keeping logs of the results. While notifying the Director of Nursing in eventuality of abnormal outcome.
- Maintains established departmental policies, procedures, safety environmental and infection control standards.
- Taking necessary precautions in handling potentially infectious waste and disposal while maintaining proper containers for sharps and Biohazards.
- Coordinating with the Nursing staff in anticipating the caseloads for the OR, while notifying the materials management if there is any conflict or shortage.
- Manages and supervises the operations within the Central Sterile Processing department, including decontamination, preparation and packaging, sterilization, and storage.
- Prepares supply requisitions or re-orders stocks for the department and forwards them to the materials manager.
- Directs and supervises personnel’s, performance evaluations, scheduling, orientating, and training.
- Prepare schedules and report on work performance at the end of the shift.
- Ensure that all sterilization records and perimeters are properly done.
- Ensured that all sterilization records and perimeters were done properly.
Manager
Medical Forefront Management Solutions
01.2021 - 01.2024
- Co-ordinate the activities in all areas in the department: - decontamination, prep and pack, sterilization, and case cart system.
- Responsible for the maintenance and sterility of all supplies and instruments used during the day in the OR
- Oversees personnel performance evaluations, scheduling, orientation, and training.
- Make recommendations on employee hires, discipline, and corrective actions.
- Resolves complaints and other personnel issues within the department.
- Preparation of schedules for departmental staff
- Scheduling in service with vendors/ reps or in -house
- Assemble trays and label them. Directs and supervises personnel’s, performance evaluations, scheduling, orientating, and training.
Lincoln Medical Center (Travel Assignment Cynet Health Agency)
12.2021 - 10.2023
- Responsible for decontaminating, dissembling, inspecting, assembling, packaging and sterilizing reusable surgical instruments or devices in the medical Center that are essential for patient safety.
Technician-TRAY CAPTAIN
Mount Sinai West Roosevelt
12.2018 - 11.2021
- Directs and oversees the activities on the floor of the department and reports to the manager/director.
- Distributes instruments and trays to all units in the department, prioritizing first cases according to the OR Schedule
- Ensures timely pick up of the preference cards for timely case pick up.
- Ensure all dirty carts are picked up from OR soiled room for timely turnaround.
- Responsible for quality trays being assembled and transferred to the OR
- Ensure all parameters of sterilization, prep and pack, decontamination, and storage units are met.
- Duties included decontaminating, dissembling, inspecting, assembling, packaging and sterilizing reusable surgical instruments or devices in the medical Center that are essential for patient safety.
- Ordering of supplies; wraps, Enzymatic soup, brushes used in the decontamination areas.
- Prepare schedules and report on work performance at the end of the shift.
- Organize meetings to address issues concerning shifts.
- Ensure that all sterilization records and perimeters are properly done.
Sterile Processing Technician
Prime Staffing Agency at New York Presbyterian Medical Center (Columbia)
08.2018 - 12.2019
- Responsible for decontaminating, dissembling, inspecting, assembling, packaging and sterilizing reusable surgical instruments or devices in the medical Center that are essential for patient safety.
Sterile Processing
Bellevue Medical Center
05.2015 - 10.2015
- Specialized in decontaminating and sterilizing instruments for use in medical procedures and the assembling of Case Cart System
- Transport/Picked instruments and supplies for surgeries.
- Wrapped trays, instrument packs and sets.
- Recorded biological and test results and Prepared instruments for sterilization.
Technician-PER DIEM
Harrison Endo Surgical Center New Jersey
, New Jersey
02.2020
- Performing and planning activities in all areas in the department; decontamination, assembly trays, sterilization, and case cart system.
- Specialized in decontaminating and sterilizing surgical instruments for patients’ safety.
Cynet Health Agency at Lincoln Medical Center
Education
High School Diploma -
WEST AFRICAN EXAMINATION COUNCIL
Some College (No Degree) - Business Process Methodology
Lagos Business School (Pan Atlantic University)
B.Sc. - Business Administration
University of Lagos Nigeria
Skills
- Sterilization techniques
- Infection control
- Equipment maintenance
- Quality assurance
- Supply chain management
- Team building
Certification
- HSPA Leadership Certified
- HSPA Conference Educator
Timeline
Operations Manager Evening Shift
Elmhurst Medical Center Queens New York
12.2023 - 07.2025
Manager
Peakpoint Midtown West Ortho ASC
03.2023 - Current
Lincoln Medical Center (Travel Assignment Cynet Health Agency)
12.2021 - 10.2023
Manager
Medical Forefront Management Solutions
01.2021 - 01.2024
Manager
Medical Forefront Management Solutions
01.2021 - 01.2024
Technician-PER DIEM
Harrison Endo Surgical Center New Jersey
02.2020
Consultant
Sterile Processing Institute of HealthCare
02.2020 - Current
Technician-TRAY CAPTAIN
Mount Sinai West Roosevelt
12.2018 - 11.2021
Sterile Processing Technician
Prime Staffing Agency at New York Presbyterian Medical Center (Columbia)
08.2018 - 12.2019
Sterile Processing
Bellevue Medical Center
05.2015 - 10.2015
Cynet Health Agency at Lincoln Medical Center
High School Diploma -
WEST AFRICAN EXAMINATION COUNCIL
Some College (No Degree) - Business Process Methodology
Lagos Business School (Pan Atlantic University)
B.Sc. - Business Administration
University of Lagos Nigeria
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