Patti Jung

• Manage small niche lab and lead team of seven technologists for three years processing and reporting ~1000 samples monthly.
• Expertise in laboratory leadership and regulatory compliance, including CAP, CLIA, and NYS certifications
• Oversaw laboratory operations, ensuring adherence to quality assurance and control standards
• Managed data systems and maintained accurate records
• Provided excellent customer service to clinicians, healthcare providers, and patients
• Fostered continuous improvement and collaboration within lab team
• Demonstrated ability to efficiently manage complex laboratory operations while prioritizing patient care and research quality

• St Mary's is central hub for 6 satellites hospital
• Job duties included but not limited to: Organizing processing testing and recipes of samples through shift from 6 locations
• Running SARS cov2 on BioFire and BD Max platforms
• Reading and reporting urine cultures
• Isolating pathogens and setting up VITEK to test culture and sensitivity
• Setting up positive blood cultures, gram stains and reporting preliminary to nurses providing patient care
• Gram stain all applicable culture types
• Setup cultures as needed on all appropriate media
• Troubleshooting orders in LIS and working with nursing staff to ensure all requests were correct
• Running POC tests, RVS, Flu A &B and Rotovirus sent to lab from the ER to help provide results with an expedited TAT
• Working with other departments when situations arose regarding shared samples
• Perform and document QC and PM on platforms used for testing during assigned shift.

Manager of Core Lab for Chemistry and Hematology.

• Successfully managed daily departmental operations with 25 employees across all three shifts
• Multiple testing platforms: QC, QA oversight, inventory management for all testing platforms
• Core Lab: with ~ 120 different assays each day tested on sample volume of about 1400 samples daily, th lab tested hematology, immunochemistry and analytical chemistry samples with 12-hour TAT.
• Depended on by upper management to maintain CAP and internal QA standards.
• Performed validation on new reagents to ensure they fall in range of internal specifications as well as manufactures standards
• Platforms in which in am proficient: Beckman AU5800, Roche Cobas, 801/602s. Beckman Coulter DXH 800/SMS, Beckman IRIS and Griffoils DG reader Net.
• Current LIS is Orchard which includes, Harvest and Copia.

• Responsible for daily completion of ~ 4000 samples submitted for chemistry and immunoassay testing
• Responsible for employee training on testing and reporting platforms.
• Oversight of instruments, PM, QC, handling any complications as well as compliance regarding testing performed in hematology.

• Responsibilities included: Setup and validation of new equipment
• Writing SOPs
• Maintaining staffing scheduled
• Performing, evaluating patient samples
• Adhered to all standards and guidelines while performing all required duties
• Maintained all instruments following protocol
• Performed duties without supervision while staying in within proper turnaround time
• Maintaining, CAL, QC
• Help train all laboratory employees in testing and reporting protocols for a rehab facility with 60 beds.

• Responsible for daily organization, work up, identification of organisms on ~900 samples submitted for body fluid culture, throat cultures, urine cultures, respiratory and blood cultures
• Reporting anything relevant regarding patient reports to clients when needed.
• Maintain and daily QC on VITEK
• Performed duties without supervision while staying within proper turnaround time.

• Generalist (Third shift): Prepared reagents, quality controls, and patient specimens for lab testing in areas of coagulation, hematology, and clinical chemistry as well as blood bank testing for level 1 trauma hospital lab which managed about 500 sample per night
• Performed duties without supervision while staying within proper turnaround time.
• Delivered high-quality work consistently, exceeding performance objectives regularly.