Jose Ruiz
Pearland
Summary
Dynamic Surgical Technologist with extensive experience at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, excelling in aseptic techniques and decision-making. Proven ability to enhance surgical outcomes through effective instrument handling and patient monitoring. Recognized for maintaining a sterile environment and ensuring efficient workflow, contributing to superior patient care in high-pressure settings.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Certified Surgical Technologist
Harris Health
10.2025 - 01.2026
- Assisted surgical teams by preparing sterile instruments and supplies for procedures.
- Maintained aseptic environment during surgeries to ensure patient safety and compliance with protocols.
- Collaborated with surgeons and nurses to anticipate needs during operations, enhancing workflow efficiency.
- Monitored inventory of surgical supplies, ensuring availability and minimizing disruptions in the surgical process.
- Anticipated surgeons needs and handed instruments and supplies to surgeons during procedures.
- Setup operating and surgery rooms by preparing equipment and supplies for upcoming procedures.
- Demonstrated adaptability when faced with emergency situations or unexpected complications during surgeries, providing prompt support to surgical teams.
Certified Surgical Technician
Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center
03.2024 - 10.2025
- Facilitated surgical teams in various cases, emphasizing heavy orthopedic procedures.
- Supported surgeons during a wide range of operations, specializing in orthopedic surgery.
- Assisted surgeons in diverse surgical procedures, with a focus on complex orthopedic surgeries.
- Assisted surgeons in diverse surgical cases, ensuring efficient workflow and patient safety.
- Supported surgeons during various procedures, contributing to successful surgical outcomes.
Surgical Technician
UTMB Galveston
05.2023 - 02.2024
- Scrubbed in properly for all procedures and assisted staff with gown and glove placement.
- Evaluated medical inventories and restocked needed supplies.
- Prepared, stored, and disposed of tissue specimens taken for laboratory analysis and testing.
- Cleaned rooms following procedures and restocked supplies and materials.
- Prepared surgical suite with appropriate supplies, tools, and equipment.
- Handed instruments and supplies to surgeons during procedures.
- Used retractors, sponges and suctioning and irrigating equipment to create unobstructed operating fields.
- Set up equipment, tools and supplies needed for procedures and organize instruments as directed in surgeons' preference cards.
- Counted and recorded sponges, instruments, and needles at beginning and end of surgical procedures.
- Maintained reusable surgical instrumentation and equipment, including decontamination, cleaning, sterilizing, storing and distributing.
- Cleaned and sterilized operating rooms.
- Used hemostatic clamps, suture ligatures, and electrocautery equipment to control bleeding.
- Facilitated invasive, non-invasive, and minimally-invasive procedures by creating safe and functional operating room environments.
- Closed wounds using sutures, staples and other tools.
- Reviewed surgical requirements and prepped operating room with appropriate tools, equipment and instruments.
Surgical Technologist
Dunes Surgical Hospital
01.2023 - 04.2023
- Conscientious surgical team member well-versed in aseptic techniques, equipment sterilization and supply management.
- Employ optimal protections for patients and staff.
- Assist with procedures using proper monitoring, patient support and emergency response strategies.
- Sterile field management.
- Surgical team scrubbing.
- Instrument preparation.
- Equipment sterilization.
- Patient preparation.
- Decision making.
- Managed sterile field during surgical procedures and employed optimal aseptic techniques.
- Supported surgeons during operations by handing instruments, retracting tissue and cutting sutures.
- Protected patients by monitoring conditions during procedures and responding quickly to any concerns.
- Helped surgical team scrub in properly and done required gloves, masks and clothing.
- Collaborated with operating room staff to cultivate efficiency and prepare for scheduled and emergency procedures.
Surgical Technologist
University of Kansas
09.2022 - 01.2023
- Helped surgical team scrub in properly and done required gloves, masks and clothing.
- Protected patients by monitoring conditions during procedures and responding quickly to any concerns.
- Supported surgeons during operations by handing instruments, retracting tissue and cutting sutures.
- Prepared, cared for and disposed of biological specimens collected for laboratory analysis.
- Managed sterile field during surgical procedures and employed optimal aseptic techniques.
- Adhered to OSHA protocols when sterilizing instruments, discarding medical supplies and disposing of waste.
- Effectively supported surgeons in fast-paced healthcare environments, resulting in better patient care and less pain medication post-surgery.
- Facilitated invasive, non-invasive, and minimally-invasive procedures by creating safe and functional operating room environments.
- Used retractors, sponges and suctioning and irrigating equipment to create unobstructed operating fields.
- Reviewed surgical requirements and prepped operating room with appropriate tools, equipment and instruments.
- Counted and recorded sponges, instruments, and needles at beginning and end of surgical procedures.
Surgical Technician
Singing River Hospital
07.2021 - 07.2022
- Scrubbed in properly for all procedures and assisted staff with gown and glove placement.
- Evaluated medical inventories and restocked needed supplies.
- Prepared, stored, and disposed of tissue specimens taken for laboratory analysis and testing.
- Cleaned rooms following procedures and restocked supplies and materials.
- Prepared surgical suite with appropriate supplies, tools, and equipment.
- Handed instruments and supplies to surgeons during procedures.
- Used retractors, sponges and suctioning and irrigating equipment to create unobstructed operating fields.
- Set up equipment, tools and supplies needed for procedures and organize instruments as directed in surgeons' preference cards.
- Counted and recorded sponges, instruments, and needles at beginning and end of surgical procedures.
- Maintained reusable surgical instrumentation and equipment, including decontamination, cleaning, sterilizing, storing and distributing.
- Cleaned and sterilized operating rooms.
- Used hemostatic clamps, suture ligatures, and electrocautery equipment to control bleeding.
- Facilitated invasive, non-invasive, and minimally-invasive procedures by creating safe and functional operating room environments.
- Closed wounds using sutures, staples and other tools.
- Reviewed surgical requirements and prepped operating room with appropriate tools, equipment and instruments.
Surgical Technologist
NOVA Surgicare
08.2019 - 08.2020
- Conscientious surgical team member well-versed in aseptic techniques, equipment sterilization and supply management.
- Employ optimal protections for patients and staff.
- Assist with procedures using proper monitoring, patient support and emergency response strategies.
- Sterile field management.
- Surgical team scrubbing.
- Instrument preparation.
- Equipment sterilization.
- Patient preparation.
- Decision making.
- Managed sterile field during surgical procedures and employed optimal aseptic techniques.
- Supported surgeons during operations by handing instruments, retracting tissue and cutting sutures.
- Protected patients by monitoring conditions during procedures and responding quickly to any concerns.
- Helped surgical team scrub in properly and done required gloves, masks and clothing.
- Collaborated with operating room staff to cultivate efficiency and prepare for scheduled and emergency procedures.
Surgical Technologist
Doctor's Community Hospital
07.2015 - 09.2016
- Helped surgical team scrub in properly and done required gloves, masks and clothing.
- Protected patients by monitoring conditions during procedures and responding quickly to any concerns.
- Supported surgeons during operations by handing instruments, retracting tissue and cutting sutures.
- Prepared, cared for and disposed of biological specimens collected for laboratory analysis.
- Managed sterile field during surgical procedures and employed optimal aseptic techniques.
- Adhered to OSHA protocols when sterilizing instruments, discarding medical supplies and disposing of waste.
- Effectively supported surgeons in fast-paced healthcare environments, resulting in better patient care and less pain medication post-surgery.
- Facilitated invasive, non-invasive, and minimally-invasive procedures by creating safe and functional operating room environments.
- Used retractors, sponges and suctioning and irrigating equipment to create unobstructed operating fields.
- Reviewed surgical requirements and prepped operating room with appropriate tools, equipment and instruments.
- Counted and recorded sponges, instruments, and needles at beginning and end of surgical procedures.
Surgical Technician
U.S. Army
01.2010 - 05.2013
- Scrubbed in properly for all procedures and assisted staff with gown and glove placement.
- Evaluated medical inventories and restocked needed supplies.
- Prepared, stored, and disposed of tissue specimens taken for laboratory analysis and testing.
- Cleaned rooms following procedures and restocked supplies and materials.
- Prepared surgical suite with appropriate supplies, tools, and equipment.
- Handed instruments and supplies to surgeons during procedures.
- Used retractors, sponges and suctioning and irrigating equipment to create unobstructed operating fields.
- Set up equipment, tools and supplies needed for procedures and organize instruments as directed in surgeons' preference cards.
- Counted and recorded sponges, instruments, and needles at beginning and end of surgical procedures.
- Maintained reusable surgical instrumentation and equipment, including decontamination, cleaning, sterilizing, storing and distributing.
- Cleaned and sterilized operating rooms.
- Used hemostatic clamps, suture ligatures, and electrocautery equipment to control bleeding.
- Facilitated invasive, non-invasive, and minimally-invasive procedures by creating safe and functional operating room environments.
- Closed wounds using sutures, staples and other tools.
- Reviewed surgical requirements and prepped operating room with appropriate tools, equipment and instruments.
Education
Associate of Arts -
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Perkinston, MS01.2022
General Studies -
Gulfport High School
Skills
- Decision making
- Material management
- Equipment operation and setup
- Needle disposal
- Patient transportation
- Biohazard waste disposal
- Aseptic techniques
- Specimen collection
- Surgical tool handling
- Workplace safety protocols
- Surgical counting
- Wound dressing
- Multitasking skills
- Time management
Affiliations
- Volunteer soccer coach
- Music producer
- Athlete
Certification
Basic Life Support, American Heart Association, 2020
Certified Surgical Technoligist, 2025
Timeline
Certified Surgical Technologist
Harris Health
10.2025 - 01.2026
Certified Surgical Technician
Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center
03.2024 - 10.2025
Surgical Technician
UTMB Galveston
05.2023 - 02.2024
Surgical Technologist
Dunes Surgical Hospital
01.2023 - 04.2023
Surgical Technologist
University of Kansas
09.2022 - 01.2023
Surgical Technician
Singing River Hospital
07.2021 - 07.2022
Surgical Technologist
NOVA Surgicare
08.2019 - 08.2020
Surgical Technologist
Doctor's Community Hospital
07.2015 - 09.2016
Surgical Technician
U.S. Army
01.2010 - 05.2013
General Studies -
Gulfport High School
Associate of Arts -
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College