Kristina Vespe
Ridge
Summary
Strategic Site Lead with expertise prioritizing projects, planning workflow and managing employees to achieve operational goals. Resourceful individual with 10 years of active experience managing efforts within deadline-driven environments. Diplomatic individual with strong leadership and decision-making skills. I love helping people and making a difference in their lives, personally and by always maintaining the integrity of their specimens for accurate testing.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Medical Assistant
RevitalWave
Holtsville, NY
03.2024 - Current
- Sanitized, restocked, and organized exam rooms and medical equipment.
- Obtained client medical history, medication information, symptoms, and allergies.
- Directed patients to exam rooms, fielded questions, and prepared for physician examinations.
- Performed medical records management, including filing, organizing and scanning documents.
- Subcutaneous/Intramuscular injections.
- ASWT certified (Acoustic shock wave therapy).
Certified Phlebotomist -Site Lead
Quest Diagnostics, Patient Services
Riverhead, NY
06.2014 - 02.2024
- Maintained records and logs of work performed and materials and equipment used.
- Trained new hires in Phlebotomy Techniques / computer system data entry / filing and handling PHI properly / SOPS.
- Site Lead at multiple locations for several years.
- Conducted Inventory checks and ensured proper rotation of stock and supplies.
- Implemented and maintained records for medically related subpoena requests.
- Responsible for State Inspections and records pertaining to temp. logs, daily morning and end of day decontamination logs, Centrifuge maintenance, medical waste, daily specimen pick up logs, frozen temp logs, STAT logs etc.
- Clinically efficient with straight and butterfly needles, blood cultures, urinalysis procedures, Rapid and PCR Covid testing, drug screenings as well as DOT regulation procedures, life insurance exams ect.
Office Manager
All Suffolk Sealcoat
Nesconset, NY
01.2010 - 06.2013
- Maintained computer and physical filing systems.
- Provided over the phone estimates of costs of products and services provided.
- Maintained past accounts and development of new accounts.
- Arranged routes for drivers to complete daily tasks
- Coordinated special projects and managed schedules.
- Office management.
Education
Certified Medical Assistant - Medical Assisting
Hunter Business School
04.2014
Skills
- Staff Management
- Implemented change and kept current with various changes in procedural protocols
- Performed Venipunctures
- Skilled with Pediatric to geriatric blood draws, as well as premature babies
- Data Entry, ICD 10 Codes, Medical Billing, Centrifuging/processing,banking and bagging specimens for pick up
- Skillfully proficient regarding patient relations
- Staff counseling in Metric System
Certification
- CPR and AED certified, American Heart Association.
- Certified Medical Assistant, (NCCT) National Council of Competency Testing.
- Certified Phlebotomy Technician, (NCCT) National Council of Competency Testing.
- Certified EKG Technician, (NCCT) National Council of Competency Testing.
Timeline
Medical Assistant
RevitalWave
03.2024 - Current
Certified Phlebotomist -Site Lead
Quest Diagnostics, Patient Services
06.2014 - 02.2024
Office Manager
All Suffolk Sealcoat
01.2010 - 06.2013
Certified Medical Assistant - Medical Assisting
Hunter Business School