Yaribey Varela
Fort Lauderdale
Summary
Bilingual medical technologist with 25 years of experience in laboratory settings. Expertise in performing and interpreting complex diagnostic tests while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Committed to enhancing patient care outcomes through meticulous quality control and efficient laboratory processes.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Medical Laboratory Technologist
United Clinical Lab
West Palm Beach
11.2025 - 04.2026
- Perform and interpret various testing procedures on patient samples, such as hematology, chemistry, drug testing, and urinalysis.
- Perform PCR in UTI samples.
- Test the RPR and, if positive, titrate via serology.
- Analyze and release results in accordance with regulatory guidelines and organizational policies and procedures, ensuring clerical reviews are completed.
- Perform endotoxin testing on water from dialysis machines, enter results, and report any critical findings to the specific facility.
- Perform and interpret tuberculosis testing, and report any positive results.
- Perform Chlamydia, gonorrhea, hepatitis C, and HIV testing on the Alinity instrument.
- Operated and maintained advanced laboratory equipment to ensure accurate results.
- Managed quality control procedures to uphold safety and compliance standards.
Medical Technologist
Flagler Medical Associates
West Palm Beach
08.2024 - 11.2024
- Perform and interpret various testing procedures on donor samples, analyze and release results following regulatory guidelines and organizational policies and procedures, ensure clerical reviews are completed, and accept, verify, and process incoming samples.
- Perform quality control, equipment maintenance, and calibration as required.
- Validate, linearize, and correlate, order supplies, and much more.
Medical Technologist
Grifols
Boca Raton
05.2022 - 10.2023
- Executed and analyzed testing procedures on donor specimens and blood products to ensure accurate results.
- Performs basic through advanced testing procedures on donor samples and interprets results following regulatory guidelines and organizational policies and procedures.
- Perform Direct Anti-globulin Test and antibody identification testing.
- Perform quality control testing of blood and blood products.
- Performed quality control, equipment maintenance, and calibration.
- Accept, verify, and process incoming blood and blood components.
- Identify and resolve potential donor care issues.
- Verified test orders by communicating with centers and addressed inquiries from staff.
- Coordinated processing of donor results and managed testing protocols to maintain compliance.
- Called other departments to confirm discrepancies in test results.
- Answered incoming phone calls from other centers to address inquiries.
Medical Technologist
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Miami Beach
11.2021 - 04.2022
- Read and report gram stain, process positive blood cultures for BCID will be run on the first bottle that comes up positive per set and then on the rest of bottles with gram stains and cultivate media.
- Call the floor nurse initially with gram stain results and call a second time with BCID results and call the pharmacy.
- Answering phone calls from doctors and nurses.
- Both developments will be entered into the electronic medical record and continue their workup, including plating to solid media.
Medical Technologist
OneBlood
Fort Lauderdale
01.2015 - 05.2020
- Performs basic through advanced testing procedures on patient and donor samples and interprets results following regulatory guidelines and organizational policies and procedures.
- Call the hospitals to verify the patient's history.
- Answering phone calls from hospitals.
- Accept, verify, and process incoming blood and blood components.
- Perform and interpret various testing procedures on donor and patient specimens and blood products.
- Perform quality control, equipment maintenance, and calibration as required.
- Identify and resolve potential patient care issues related to transfusion.
- Perform Direct Anti-globulin Test, antibody identification testing, chemical treatment of red blood cells, use of micro-plate technique to antigen test units, patient phenotyping, allogeneic and autologous adsorption, elution studies, neutralization procedure, sickle cell testing.
Quality Control Lab Technologist
OneBlood
Fort Lauderdale
10.2011 - 12.2014
- Perform quality control testing of blood and blood products.
- Call other departments to verify discrepancies.
- Answering phone calls from other centers.
- Coordinate the processing of donor results and testing protocols.
- Perform PH testing and operate the hematology analyzer.
- Maintain and perform quality control of reagents and laboratory equipment.
- Perform bacterial detection of platelet products (use Bac-T-Alert system); follow positive bacterial detection protocols.
- Perform validation, linearity, and correlation.
- Perform monthly QC and product qualification procedures.
- Ensure clerical reviews are completed.
- Accept, verify, and process incoming blood and blood components or samples.
Medical Technologist
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Miami Beach
01.2008 - 10.2011
- Performed laboratory procedures to support disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
- Collected and prepared specimens for accurate diagnostic analysis.
- Verified, recorded, and reported lab results on all performed tests.
- Performed quality controls, ensuring validity and accuracy, calibrating, and troubleshooting instruments.
- Ensured compliance with government regulations and hospital policies to maintain laboratory standards.
- Maintained laboratory equipment, instruments, and work area.
- Calling and answering phone calls from doctors and nurses.
Education
A.S. - Medical Laboratory Technology
MIAMI DADE COLLEGE
FL, USA04-2007
Skills
- Blood bank
- Blood banking technologist
- Blood component testing
- Transfusion reaction workups
- Direct anti-globulin testing
- Antibody identification
- Microbiology
- Hematology
- Immunohematology
- Coagulation
- Chemistry
- Clinical Chemistry Knowledge
- Team collaboration
- Lab test analysis
- Laboratory Equipment Knowledge
- Laboratory organization
- Professionalism
- Lab safety procedures
- Lab safety protocols
- Quality control
- Quality assurance controls
- Equipment calibration
- Instrumentation calibration
- Laboratory equipment maintenance
- Specimen preparation
- Team collaboration
- Communication skills
- Patient interaction
- Attention to detail
- Problem resolution
- Critical thinking
- Decision-making
- Data analysis
- Time management
- Workflow management
- Adaptability and flexibility
- Self-motivation
- Professionalism
- Problem-solving
- Microscopic techniques
- Data entry
- Medical terminology
- Laboratory equipment maintenance
- Blood banking technologist
- Data entry
- Clinical Chemistry Knowledge
- Microbiology techniques
- Medical terminology
- Workflow management
Certification
Licensed Clinical Laboratory Medical Technologist, Florida, 08/31/26, AAB - American Association of Bioanalysts
Languages
- English, Professional
- Spanish, Native/Bilingual
Equipment Knowledge
- Verigene
- GeneXpert
- DiaSorin
- ID NOW
- Epic
- Allscripts
- Sysmex XE 2100
- Sysmex XT 1800i
- Sysmex A1190
- Sysmex A1189
- Cell Dyn 1800
- Facscalibur E0080
- E4394
- Galileo Echo
- ImmuLINK
- RSA
- HCLL
- Blood Hub
- STA Compact (Diagnostica STAGO)
- PFA100 Platelet Function Aggregation
- Beckman Coulter
- Synchron LXi 725
- LX20 Pro
- Acces 2
- COBAS Integra
- Roche: Cobas C311 and E411
- DxH 690T and DxH 560 Beckman Coulter
- DiaSorin (Liaison) Quantiferon and HSV 1 and 2
- Pyros Kinetix Flex Turb
- Vitros 3600
- AU5800
- Immulite 2000 XPi
- D10 (A1C)
- Clinitek 500 Siemens Multistix
- Thermo Scientific Decapper Flex
- Alinity Abbott
Timeline
Medical Laboratory Technologist
United Clinical Lab
11.2025 - 04.2026
Medical Technologist
Flagler Medical Associates
08.2024 - 11.2024
Medical Technologist
Grifols
05.2022 - 10.2023
Medical Technologist
Mount Sinai Medical Center
11.2021 - 04.2022
Medical Technologist
OneBlood
01.2015 - 05.2020
Quality Control Lab Technologist
OneBlood
10.2011 - 12.2014
Medical Technologist
Mount Sinai Medical Center
01.2008 - 10.2011
A.S. - Medical Laboratory Technology
MIAMI DADE COLLEGE