Yaribey Varela
Fort Lauderdale
Summary
Bilingual medical technologist with over 25 years of experience in medical offices and laboratories. Proven expertise in conducting diagnostic tests, maintaining laboratory equipment, and ensuring compliance with TJC, OSHA, and FDA regulations. Recognized for delivering accurate results and improving laboratory efficiency through streamlined processes. Strong analytical skills and a commitment to quality control enhance patient care outcomes.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Medical Laboratory Technologist
United Clinical Lab
West Palm Beach, Florida
11.2025 - 04.2026
- Perform and interpret various testing procedures on patient samples, such as hematology, chemistry, drug testing, and urinalysis. Perform microbiology plate reading from water from dialysis machines. 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. Sed rate and RPR through manual testing.
- Operated and maintained advanced laboratory equipment to ensure accurate results. Managed quality control procedures to uphold safety and compliance standards. Documented test results and maintained accurate records in the lab information system.
Medical Technologist
Flagler Medical Associates
West Palm Beach, FL
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, FL
05.2022 - 10.2023
- Performs basic through advanced testing procedures on donor samples and interprets results following regulatory guidelines and organizational policies and procedures. Call the centers to verify and ensure the tests are being ordered, and answer phone calls from centers. Accept, verify, and process incoming blood and blood components. Perform and interpret various testing procedures on donor specimens and blood products. Perform quality control, equipment maintenance, and calibration as required. Identify and resolve potential donor care issues. Perform Direct Anti-globulin Test and antibody identification testing. 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.
Medical Technologist
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Miami Beach, FL
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, FL
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, FL
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, FL
01.2008 - 10.2011
- Collected specimen and prepared specimen. Performed laboratory procedures used in diagnosing, treating, and preventing diseases. Verified, recorded, and reported lab results on all performed tests. Calling and answering phone calls from doctors and nurses. Ensured compliance with government requirements, hospital policies, and laboratory procedures. Maintained laboratory equipment, instruments, and work area. Performed quality controls, ensuring validity and accuracy, calibrating, and troubleshooting instruments.
Education
A. S. - Medical Laboratory Technology
MIAMI DADE COLLEGE
FL, USA04-2007
Skills
- Microbiology
- Hematology
- Immunohematology
- Blood bank
- Coagulation
- Chemistry
- Laboratory Equipment Knowledge
- Quality control
- Equipment maintenance
- Sample processing
- Data analysis
- Regulatory compliance
- Blood component testing
- Antibody identification
- Direct anti-globulin testing
- Problem solving
- Attention to detail
- Communication skills
- Team collaboration
- Time management
- Customer service
- Critical thinking
- Quality assurance controls
- Adaptability and flexibility
- Self motivation
- Laboratory safety procedures
- Equipment testing and calibration
- Instrumentation calibration
- Problem-solving abilities
- Decision-making
- Good laboratory practices (GLP)
- Specialist in blood banking
- Microscopic techniques
- Laboratory organization
- Test documentation
- Laboratory equipment maintenance
- Professionalism
- Transfusion reaction workups
- Diagnostic testing
- Laboratory safety protocols
- Time management abilities
- Problem-solving
- Specimen preparation
- Blood bank management
- Lab test analysis
- Lab equipment maintenance
- Technologist in blood banking
- Data entry
- Clinical Chemistry Knowledge
- Technologist in microbiology
- Medical terminology
- Deadline driven
Certification
Licensed Clinical Laboratory Medical Technologist, Florida, 08/31/26, AAB - American Association of Bioanalysts
Languages
English Professional
Spanish Native/ Bilingual
Laboratory Equipment Knowledge
- Verigene, GeneXpert, DiaSorin, ID NOW, Epic, Allscripts, Sysmex XE 2100, Sysmex XT 1800i, Sysmex Al190, Sysmex Al189, 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, Beckman Coulter, 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