Michael Rains
Oklahoma City,OK
Summary
Highly skilled Service Engineer with 10+ years of experience in maintaining and troubleshooting complex proton therapy systems. Proven ability to manage installations, perform preventative maintenance, and ensure optimal system performance. Expertise in beam physics, reading technical drawings, and preventative maintenance. Seeking to leverage technical expertise and problem-solving skills to excel as a Procurement Engineer.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Service Engineer
IBA Proton Therapy
Herndon, Virginia
04.2014 - Current
- Participate in the installation, calibration and maintenance of a broad range of the IBA equipment and technical tools used in operating a proton therapy center.
- Responsible for all different aspects of beam-related commissioning activities.
- Manage testing and validating new equipment installed in a proton therapy system.
- Ensure the customer requirements are meet in terms of compliance, quality, technical performance, and timing.
- Provide support for daily clinical operations of the proton therapy systems for various customer needs such as patient treatment, patient specific QA, software testing, troubleshooting, and any other customer requests
- Perform troubleshooting of the proton therapy equipment including electrical, mechanical, and software problems.
- Perform regular preventative maintenance and corrective maintenance.
- Maintain adequate records as defined by the specific facility and regulatory requirements.
- Effectively communicate the status of the system to the customer as well as to IBA employees.
Applications Specialist
IBA Dosimetry
Herndon, Virginia
09.2017 - 03.2019
- Travel to hospitals and clinics around the globe to receive and inventory dosimetry equipment
- Verify equipment functionality
- Perform calibration of new dosimetry equipment
- Install dosimetry software
- Work with hospital/clinics IT to establish SQL database
- Calibrate a suite of IBA dosimetry equipment
- Train medical physicists on how to use the IBA hardware and software
- Provide remote support for any issues a medical physicists experiences when using IBA Dosimetry equipment
Medical Physics Assistant
ProCure Proton Therapy
Oklahoma City, OK
01.2012 - 03.2014
- Under the supervision of a board-certified Medical Physicist, the teammate delivers assistive medical physics services to all internal and external customers utilizing best practices, nationally recognized standards, and regulations in a manner that ensures the highest level of safety, quality patient care, and regulatory compliance
- Serves as an assistive resource for the medical physics team in aspects of simulation, treatment planning, treatment delivery, routine quality assurance and patient-specific QA
- Assists with commissioning and acceptance testing tasks
- Provides assistance to medical physicists with problem solving, troubleshooting, and maintenance for simulation, treatment planning, and treatment delivery equipment
- Performs appropriate quality assurance procedures and records
- All procedures and documentation are completed on time
- Maintains and uses standard dosimetry equipment such as ionization chambers, arrays, OSLDs, water tanks, etc
- Responsible for ensuring up-to-date calibrations on all survey and dosimetry equipment as instructed
- Participate in data entry and submission of dosimetry data for clinical trials and registries
- Performs data analysis for clinical process improvement and clinical research projects
- Assists in the performance of necessary tasks for physics projects, policy/procedure development and continuous quality improvement
- Assists the medical physicist in all aspects of teaching and training of staff on new modalities
- Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Atrium Health policies and local standards
- Maintains a commitment to a high degree of accuracy, attention to detail, and safety
- Travel regionally to various centers in the network to conduct the job responsibilities as identified above at different centers
- Adheres to radiation safety protocols and policies
Education
Bachelor of Science - Physics
Southern Nazarene University
Bethany, OK05-2012
Skills
- Collective Intelligence Facilitator
- Emotional Intelligence
- Nonviolent Communication
- Cyclotron operation and maintenance
- Beam physics and dosimetry
- Electrical and mechanical troubleshooting
- Vacuum systems and cooling systems
- PLC Systems (Siemens)
- Generative AI Prompting
- Microsoft 365
Certification
- Collective Intelligence Facilitator (Internal IBA Training)
- Emotional Intelligence (LinkedIn Learning)
- Neuroscience of Leadership (Google Coursera)
- Non-violent Communication (Internal IBA Training)
Affiliations
- Collective Intelligence Facilitator
- Writing contributor for Queer Media Corner in IBA Pride Newsletter
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Applications Specialist
IBA Dosimetry
09.2017 - 03.2019
Service Engineer
IBA Proton Therapy
04.2014 - Current
Medical Physics Assistant
ProCure Proton Therapy
01.2012 - 03.2014
Bachelor of Science - Physics
Southern Nazarene University