Waqqar H. Shaikh
JEFFERSON,MD
Summary
PTCB Certified. Twenty four years and continuing experience in Infusion/Hospital/and outpatient pharmacies. Extent knowledge in USP-797, and compounding IV's and Chemo Infusion IV's. Self-directed individual, oriented to fast pace environments. Strong customer service skills, including Good people's skills, working well with public and co-workers. Exceptional listener and communicator, ability to effectively educate and train new employees.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Pharmacy Technician
Veterans Affair Baltimore Medical Center
10.2019 - Current
- Knowledgeable with Simms Software, including adjusting inventory levels upon checking in medications
- Knowledgeable with ConsortiEX Inventory receiving Software, providing procurement team with information regarding wrong Lot numbers and other information
- Modifying inventory levels, walking shelves and checking to increase medication levels on inventory
- Inventorying Chemo IV’s for procurement daily and sending reports to procurement team
- Utilizing computer systems and software to maintain inventory invoices
- Providing pharmacy procurement team with status of deliveries, and reconciling invoices
- Ensuring expired and unusable medications and supplies are removed and secured in an area separated from the active inventories
- Notifying Supervisors and other designated pharmacy personnel team members regarding anticipated manufactured or supply shortages of medications and supplies
- Answering Telephone calls responding to inquiries and triaging as appropriate
- Functioning in the capacity of a GS-6 Pharmacy Tech in any area of competency as staffing requirements dictate
- Helping The Procurement Team with Receiving Orders in the Simms Software and adjusting as needed
- Training New Employees with the ConsortiEX Software for receiving orders
- Experienced and Knowledgeable in Outpatient Pharmacy services
- Providing excellent customer service to Veterans for their needs
- Answering Telephone calls regarding medication refills/renewals, and procedural pharmacy activities
- Routinely reviewing Veterans Medication profiles for refills, to make sure they have active prescriptions before transferring to correct extensions
- Processes and submits patient request for renewals into the computer accurately
- Knowledgeable with Sterile compounding, and chemo infusion compounding
- Delivering Controlled medications to automated various units, with regular medications
- Triaging technical issues with Omnicell, and other machines like fax, printers, and robotics automated machines
Senior Pharmacy Technician
Inova FairFax Hospital
07.2018 - 10.2019
- Company Overview: Annandale, VA
- Preparing IV Batch, and Stat IV’s
- Delivering and tubing Stat IV’s to various units in the hospital
- Delivering narcotics to various automated machines in the hospital
- Filling cart fill for delivery to the units in the hospital
- Answering phone calls and transferring Nurses, and Providers to their respected areas
- Training Pharmacy technicians in various areas
- Typing up job descriptions for new work flow for all pharmacy technicians
- Ordering supplies for pharmacy
- Annandale, VA
Staff Pharmacy Technician
Children’s National Medical Center
07.2017 - 07.2018
- Company Overview: Washington, D.C
- Preparing Batch IV, and Stat IV’s
- Drawing up PO syringes on batch and delivering them to various units
- Answering phone calls for missing doses
- Delivering Narcotics to various units and filing pyxis machine
- Helping with inventory, stocking IV room
- Washington, D.C
Infusion Pharmacy Technician
Johns Hopkins Home Care Group
03.2011 - 07.2017
- Company Overview: Baltimore, MD
- Customer Service, answering phone calls, compounding Large amounts of IV Chemo’s, Knowledgeable about Chemo medications
- Compounding IV's per order
- Compounding large volume hydrations IV's
- Receiving McKesson orders, helping with inventory
- Baltimore, MD
Lead Pharmacy Technician
Merritt Star Pharmacy
11.2009 - 03.2011
- Company Overview: Dundalk, MD
- Providing Customer Service to patients, Doctors, and nurses
- Triaging Phone calls, accurately transferring telephone calls to the right departments
- Providing customer service to patients with refills, authorizations, and new orders
- Dundalk, MD
Staff Pharmacy technician
National Institute of Health
06.2008 - 11.2009
- Company Overview: Bethesda, MD
- Specializing in IV admixture, and Chemo IV admixture, also working with TPNs
- Making IV batch on daily basis, and stocking the IV room with fluids, and syringes and needles
- Answering phone calls
- Unit dose, manual cart fill
- Bethesda, MD
Staff pharmacy technician
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
10.2006 - 06.2008
- Company Overview: Towson, MD
- Specializing in IV admixture, 'TPN'S' using windows XP program
- Batching IV's for delivery and rotating with new medication on day to day process
- Also pulling expired ones from refrigerator
- Stocking the IV room daily for next shift
- Pulling Narcotics for daily routine deliver and keeping accurate counts on a daily routine basis
- Filing narcotics in Pyxis machine with accuracy on a daily basis routine
- Rotating Patient cassettes in each unit on a daily routine with accuracy
- Familiarized with the Pneumatic tubing system in hospitals
- Drawing up PO syringes daily for Newborn, and Pediatric intensive care unit
- Towson, MD
Staff pharmacy technician
Kaiser Permanente Antioch
09.2000 - 10.2006
- Company Overview: Antioch, CA
- Receiving and filing prescriptions, guaranteeing accuracy
- Inventory, processing orders, stocking medications, and returning expired and recalled medications
- Pulling, typing, and filing prescriptions
- Compounding prescriptions, guaranteeing accuracy
- Problem solving patient concerns, working with 'TAR' patients, hospice Patients and Medical/Medi-care patients
- Antioch, CA
Internship Pharmacy Technician
John Muir Hospital
07.1999 - 09.2000
- Company Overview: Walnut Creek, CA
- Compounding medications in different dosage forms, e.g., Tablets, capsules, creams, ointments, and suspensions
- Dealing with patients on the phone, Inventory
- Inpatient Environment, making Chemo IV, TPN'S manually
- Delivering medications to different wards through tubing system, and also filing the Pyxis
- Walnut Creek, CA
Education
Pharmacy technician - Pharmacy
Silicon Valley College
Walnut Creek, CA01.1999
Diploma - General Education
Mount diablo high school
Concord, CA01.1997
Skills
- Microsoft office
- Outlook email
Certification
- PTCB
- Registered Pharmacy Technician in Virginia, Washington, DC, MD, and CA
Timeline
Pharmacy Technician
Veterans Affair Baltimore Medical Center
10.2019 - Current
Senior Pharmacy Technician
Inova FairFax Hospital
07.2018 - 10.2019
Staff Pharmacy Technician
Children’s National Medical Center
07.2017 - 07.2018
Infusion Pharmacy Technician
Johns Hopkins Home Care Group
03.2011 - 07.2017
Lead Pharmacy Technician
Merritt Star Pharmacy
11.2009 - 03.2011
Staff Pharmacy technician
National Institute of Health
06.2008 - 11.2009
Staff pharmacy technician
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
10.2006 - 06.2008
Staff pharmacy technician
Kaiser Permanente Antioch
09.2000 - 10.2006
Internship Pharmacy Technician
John Muir Hospital
07.1999 - 09.2000
Diploma - General Education
Mount diablo high school
Pharmacy technician - Pharmacy
Silicon Valley College
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