KRISHNABEN PATEL

• Performed and documented preventive maintenance calibration and quality control practices.
• Contributed to lab team and individual competency assessment towards maintaining efficiency in environment.
• Maintained physical lab equipment, detecting malfunction and troubleshooting to ensure optimum service.
• Oversaw instrument availability, supply inventory and restocking measures to maintain nonstop operation.
• Monitored proficiency testing within laboratory environment, handling corrective actions.
• Involved in validation of Abbott Alinity chemistry analyzer and provide training to fellow employees.
• Ensure daily, weekly, monthly QCs and maintenance properly performed.
• Operate, establish quality control, validate new lot, validate and maintain equipment used in qualitative and quantitative analysis.

• Experience working in blood Bank, serology, urinalysis, chemistry and hematology to help with diagnosis of medical issues.
• Maintained certification with American Medical Technologist (AMT).
• Operated and maintained STAGO(Coagulation), Sysmex XN(Hematology), Architect & Alinity(Chemistry), IRIS(Urinalysis), Cobas(Blood gas), Vision(Blood bank), Cellavision(CBC Differential).
• Screen and crossmatch blood sample using gel and tube method, test for blood group antigens and identify antibodies assigned in blood bank.
• Performed manual differential of CBC and manual body fluid including CSF to determine presence of normal or abnormal components.
• Experience working with bone marrow including preparing slides for pathology lead.
• Experience working in all 3 shifts.

• Cut, mounted and stained samples from hospital patients suffering from acute and chronic concerns.
• Completed complex histological procedures to prepare slides for analysis.
• Minimized infection risk by regularly cleaning and disinfecting work areas and equipment.
• Operated instrumentation for tissue dehydration and section clearing.
• Prepared solutions, stains, and reagents in accordance with standards.
• Documented routine laboratory instrument maintenance and corrective actions.
• Troubleshot inconsistencies and identified errors to trace root causes and implement corrective actions.
• Reviewed slides for quality control prior to sending to pathologists.
• Monitored inventory levels of supplies, equipment and reagents used and placed orders for replacements.
• Cut body tissue sections for microscopic examination using microtomes.

• Collected blood samples using vacutainer tubes, tourniquets, syringes, butterfly needles, and straight needles.
• Labeled transfer tubes and followed exact directions for handling and storing specimens for transport.
• Assembled tourniquets, needles and blood collection devices to prepare work trays.
• Organized daily work based on collection priority.
• Stocked phlebotomy cart or carrier with appropriate supplies.
• Obtained blood specimens by performing venipunctures and finger sticks 30 times per day.

-Receive, Label and Analyze the blood sample.

-Perform routine and non-routine tests and analyzes using, appropriate equipment and instruments.

-Calculates the test results and report results using computer.

-Perform quality control and calibrate equipment.

-Physical examination of Donor and blood test for safe transfusion.

-Precaution and care to be taken before and after the blood donation.

-ABO testing, slide and a test tube method.

-Antigen sub group of A, Bombay O, Antibody of ABO system, Anti A, B, H.

Reverse grouping.

-Anticoagulants for blood preservatives, ACD, CPD, Heparin.

-Coomb's test, Direct and Indirect method.