Matthew D. Jones
South Hutchinson,KS
Summary
To provide my employer with proven knowledge and skills while reaping the personal and financial benefits of a challenging position with continued growth opportunities.
Care-focused Phlebotomist bringing 18-year background in patient care and laboratory settings. Accomplished at easing patient anxieties and hitting veins on first attempts. Experienced in skin puncture draws utilizing varied needle gauges and collection techniques tailored to patient need.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Phlebotomist
Hutchinson Regional Medical Center
12.2024 - Current
- Stocked phlebotomy cart or carrier with appropriate supplies.
- Tracked collected specimens by initialing, dating, and noting times of collection.
- Conducted venipuncture and other CT procedures.
- Packaged and shipped specimens to central lab daily.
- Labeled transfer tubes and followed exact directions for handling and storing specimens for transport.
- Centrifuged blood samples as outlined in clinical protocols.
- Addressed questions and concerns to educate patients on collection process and procedures.
- Established and maintained positive working relationships with patients, staff and clinical personnel to build trust and camaraderie.
- Performed venipunctures, finger sticks and heel sticks for both adult and pediatric patients.
Contractor on Fiver
Self-Employed
06.2021 - Current
- Creating servers and mods/addons for Minecraft
- Customer service and advertising
- Game coding, Microsoft Office programs
Phlebotomist
Hutchinson Clinic, P.A.
11.2020 - 04.2021
- Performed venipuncture on patients
- Capillary and heel sticks
- ABG's and blood cultures.
- Properly identified patients and labeled all specimens for testing.
Pharmaceutical Assistant
Pfizer – contracted through ManPower
02.2019 - 09.2020
- Visual Inspection of carpuject medication through manual, clips, and Dabrico machines
- Accumulation of medication to be packed and shipped to customer
- Maintain GMP and GDP as lined out in SOP’s and PLS training
- Maintain sanitation and clean-room safety practices lined out in SOP’s
- Grade D gowning training and qualified
Head Cook
Royals Bar and Banquet
12.2017 - 08.2018
- Maintain sanitation, health, and safety standards in work areas
- Cook and package batches of food, such as hamburgers or fried chicken, which are prepared to order or kept warm until sold
- Clean, stock, and restock workstations and display cases
- Wash, cut, and prepare foods designated for cooking
- Pre-cook items, such as bacon, to prepare them for later use
- Training and Teaching Others
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Created several menu items
- Experience with: Chefs’ knives, Deep fat fryers, Gas ovens, Grills
Meat Cook
Hog Wild
12.2017 - 08.2018
- Maintain sanitation, health, and safety standards in work areas
- Smoked, sliced, pulled and served the smoked meats
- Pre-cook items, such as bacon, to prepare them for later use
- Training and Teaching Others
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Experience with: Chefs’ knives, Deep fat fryers, Gas ovens, Grills
Back Line Cook
Sonic
03.2016 - 06.2016
- Maintain sanitation, health, and safety standards in work areas
- Cook and package batches of food, such as hamburgers or fried chicken, which are prepared to order or kept warm until sold
- Clean, stock, and restock workstations and display cases
- Wash, cut, and prepare foods designated for cooking
- Pre-cook items, such as bacon, to prepare them for later use
- Training and Teaching Others
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Experience with: Chefs’ knives, Deep fat fryers, Gas ovens, Grills
Cook/Shift Manager
Pizza Hut
03.2015 - 04.2016
- Maintain sanitation, health, and safety standards in work areas
- Prepare specialty foods, such as pizzas, sandwiches, following specific methods that usually require short preparation time
- Read food order slips or receive verbal instructions as to food required by patron, and prepare and cook food according to instruction.
- Training and Teaching Others
- Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others
- Performing Administrative Activities
- Experience with: Pizza Ovens
Line cook
Applebee's
12.2014 - 03.2015
- Inspect and clean food preparation areas, such as equipment and work surfaces, or serving areas to ensure safe and sanitary food-handling practices
- Season and cook food according to recipes or personal judgment and experience
- Bake, roast, broil, and steam meats, fish, vegetables, and other foods
- Wash, peel, cut, and seed fruits and vegetables to prepare them for consumption
- Substitute for or assist other cooks during emergencies or rush periods
- Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Coaching and Developing Others
- Monitoring and Controlling Resources
- Experience with: Chefs’ knives, Food steamers, Fryers, Gas grills, Griddles
Cold Meat Cook
Hog Wild
08.2014 - 10.2014
- Inspect and clean food preparation areas, such as equipment and work surfaces, or serving areas to ensure safe and sanitary food-handling practices
- Ensure freshness of food and ingredients by checking for quality, keeping track of old and new items, and rotating stock
- Bake, roast, broil, and steam meats, vegetables, and other foods
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
- Experience with: Chefs’ knives, Convection ovens, Food safety labeling systems, Gas grills, Meat and cheese slicing machines
Construction Laborer
TEAM Employment
01.2014 - 04.2014
- Load and unload items from machines, conveyors, and conveyances
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems
- Thinking Creatively
- Experience with: Adjustable wrenches, Crescent wrenches, Data entry software, Label-making machines
Cook
Pizza Hut
12.2012 - 08.2013
- Maintain sanitation, health, and safety standards in work areas
- Clean food preparation areas, cooking surfaces, and utensils
- Clean, stock, and restock workstations and display case.
- Prepare dough, following recipe
- Training and Teaching Others
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
- Experience with: Carbonated beverage dispensers, Convection ovens, Deep fat fryers, Gas ovens, Griddles, Grills, Pizza ovens
Laboratory Phlebotomist
Hutchinson Regional Medical Center
04.2009 - 10.2011
- Match laboratory requisition forms to specimen tubes
- Draw blood from veins by vacuum tube, syringe, or butterfly venipuncture methods
- Dispose of blood or other biohazard fluids or tissue, in accordance with applicable laws, standards, or policies
- Draw blood from capillaries by dermal puncture, such as heel or finger stick methods
- Explain fluid or tissue collection procedures to patients
- Coaching and Developing Others
- Experience with: Barcode scanners, Blood culture bottles, Blood culture incubators, Blood drawing syringes, Blood gas kits
EMT, Paramedic (Emergency Medical Technician, Paramedic)
EMSA
06.2006 - 02.2009
- Administer first aid treatment or life support care to sick or injured persons in prehospital settings
- Operate equipment, such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), external defibrillators, or bag valve mask resuscitators, in advanced life support environments
- Drive mobile intensive care unit to specified location, following instructions from emergency medical dispatcher
- Administer drugs, orally or by injection, or perform intravenous procedures under a physician’s direction
- Communicate with dispatchers or treatment center personnel to provide information about situation, to arrange reception of victims, or to receive instructions for further treatment
- Comfort and reassure patients
- Attend training classes to maintain certification licensure, keep abreast of new developments in the field, or maintain existing knowledge
- Experience with: Ambulances, Bag valve mask BVM resuscitators, Blood pressure recorders, Desktop computers, Esophageal tracheal airway devices, Glucometers
Paramedic
AMR
10.2004 - 05.2006
- Administer first aid treatment or life support care to sick or injured persons in prehospital settings
- Operate equipment, such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), external defibrillators, or bag valve mask resuscitators, in advanced life support environments
- Drive mobile intensive care unit to specified location, following instructions from emergency medical dispatcher
- Administer drugs, orally or by injection, or perform intravenous procedures under a physician’s direction
- Communicate with dispatchers or treatment center personnel to provide information about situation, to arrange reception of victims, or to receive instructions for further treatment
- Comfort and reassure patients
- Attend training classes to maintain certification licensure, keep abreast of new developments in the field, or maintain existing knowledge
- Assisting and Caring for Others
- Experience with: Ambulances, Bag valve mask BVM resuscitators, Blood pressure recorders, Desktop computers, Esophageal tracheal airway devices, Glucometers
Education
High School Diploma or Equivalent - Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program
Buhler High School
Buhler, KS05-1999
Associate's Degree - Emergency Medical Technology/Technician (EMT Paramedic)
Hutchinson Community College
Hutchinson, KS05-2004
Skills
- Donor screening
- Patient confidentiality
- Medical records handling
- Venipuncture
- Blood collection
- Patient support
- Emergency response training
- Patient care
- Venipuncture expertise
- Communication
- Medical terminology
Accomplishments
- Won "Star of Life" award in 2006.
- Earned "BEE" award in 2025.
Timeline
Phlebotomist
Hutchinson Regional Medical Center
12.2024 - Current
Contractor on Fiver
Self-Employed
06.2021 - Current
Phlebotomist
Hutchinson Clinic, P.A.
11.2020 - 04.2021
Pharmaceutical Assistant
Pfizer – contracted through ManPower
02.2019 - 09.2020
Head Cook
Royals Bar and Banquet
12.2017 - 08.2018
Meat Cook
Hog Wild
12.2017 - 08.2018
Back Line Cook
Sonic
03.2016 - 06.2016
Cook/Shift Manager
Pizza Hut
03.2015 - 04.2016
Line cook
Applebee's
12.2014 - 03.2015
Cold Meat Cook
Hog Wild
08.2014 - 10.2014
Construction Laborer
TEAM Employment
01.2014 - 04.2014
Cook
Pizza Hut
12.2012 - 08.2013
Laboratory Phlebotomist
Hutchinson Regional Medical Center
04.2009 - 10.2011
EMT, Paramedic (Emergency Medical Technician, Paramedic)
EMSA
06.2006 - 02.2009
Paramedic
AMR
10.2004 - 05.2006
Associate's Degree - Emergency Medical Technology/Technician (EMT Paramedic)
Hutchinson Community College
High School Diploma or Equivalent - Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program
Buhler High School
Awards
Star of Life, Received the Star of Life award in September 2015 for field delivery of newborn infant under extreme circumstances.
Summary of Qualifications
- Skilled in Phlebotomy and venipuncture.
- Can type 80-90 words per minute.
- Managerial experience.
- Knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Detailed oriented
- Strong work ethic