Mark Romero
Edgewood
Summary
Sterile processing professional equipped for leadership with strong organizational and communication skills. Proven ability to oversee and enhance sterilization processes, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards. Effective in fostering team collaboration and consistently delivering reliable results. Skilled in inventory management, workflow optimization, and staff training to maintain high operational standards and staff satisfaction.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sterile Processing Supervisor
Presbyterian Hospital
05.2021 - Current
- Day to day operations to include scheduling staff in multiple facilities, time care and onboarding
- Heavily involved in the hiring of new staff members including traveling and permanent staff
- Ordering necessary instrumentation while maintaining budget-minded goals
- Assisting clinic managers with instrumentation and sterile processing needs to include new sterilization methods that were not in compliance
- Collaborating with operating room management to ensure all instrumentation/sterility needs are met in a timely manner
- Working with hospital management to ensure SPD is functioning as a vital part of surgical services
- Partnered with surgeons and team leads to ensure instrumentation needs are met
- Work with HR partners to address corrective action and/or leave of absence needs while adhering to Presbyterian Hospitals policies and procedures
- Helped to implement education coordinator role to streamline onboarding
- Assisted in the education and roll out of Censitrac for SPD and OR team members while providing technical support with new applications
- Ensuring policies and procedures are being followed by vendors and SPD/OR staff while following AAMI, AORN, and ASHRE standards
SPD/OR Liaison
Presbyterian Hospital
11.2019 - 05.2021
- Assist SPD manager and supervisor with daily operations
- Help onboard new employees
- Assign staff their daily assignments/workflow
- Help process instruments for rapid turnover
- Work with Team leads to correct or make changes to instrument sets
- Help keep department Joint Commission ready
- Inspect trays for defects
- Communicate with OR staff with instrumentation concerns
- Build new instrument sets with team leads
- Purchase new/replacement instrumentation
- Work with Reps to ensure loaners are case ready
- Help implement the use of Censitrac
- Help fulfill the surgeons instrumentation needs
- Help Fulfil Presbyterians needs during the COVID-19 pandemic
Sterile Processing Tech III
Presbyterian Hospital
02.2014 - 11.2019
- Reprocess surgical instruments
- Decontamination of soiled instrumentation
- Inspect instruments for damage and proper functionality
- Restock unused instruments from surgical cases
- Run instruments to OR suites as requested
OR Supply Tech
Presbyterian Hospital
08.2010 - 02.2014
- Pick surgical cases
- Deliver needed supplies and instruments to OR suites
- Stock supply room daily
- Restock OR suites
- Order supplies needed for daily operations
- Restock unused supply/instruments
Education
Associate of Arts - Communication, Liberal Arts, Certificate in General Studies with honors
CNM
05.2024
GED -
CNM
Albuquerque, NM12.2000
Skills
- Bilingual-Spanish
- Team leadership
- Staff supervision and training
- Strict infection control standards
- Expert in decontamination procedures
- Inventory control management
- Process improvement strategies
- Documentation and recordkeeping
- Quality assurance management
- Problem-solving capacity
- Regulatory compliance
- Time management proficiency
- Surgical instrumentation expert
Certification
CRCST
CIS
Timeline
Sterile Processing Supervisor
Presbyterian Hospital
05.2021 - Current
SPD/OR Liaison
Presbyterian Hospital
11.2019 - 05.2021
Sterile Processing Tech III
Presbyterian Hospital
02.2014 - 11.2019
OR Supply Tech
Presbyterian Hospital
08.2010 - 02.2014
GED -
CNM
CRCST
CIS
Associate of Arts - Communication, Liberal Arts, Certificate in General Studies with honors
CNM
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