PROFILE Accomplished, Experienced Clinical Engineer Career Overview: Background combines strong technical and academic preparation with a record of innovation, contribution and performance excellence during a twenty four year career with a nationally ranked hospital and medical center. Unique combination of technological knowledge, analytical ability and communication/project management skills. Recognized by management for technical ability, work ethic and team attitude. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills able to work effectively with individuals from all functional areas and at all levels of the organization. Equipment Specialty Areas: Specialize in supporting 13 specific departments: Main OR - 17 OR rooms, CJRI - 6 OR rooms, ASU - 6 OR rooms, Surgicare - 3 OR rooms, Electrophysiology - 2 labs, Catherization - 3 labs, ECG lab, Stress - 3 labs, Exercise lab, Cardiology Nuclear Medicine - 2 labs, Pulmonary Lab, Sleep Lab - 6 rooms, Ultrasound Lab, IABP's, Incident reporting, incident investigation, device failure reporting. Product recall reporting, working with Risk Management, device failure investigations. Patient Incident reporting. Specialty Role: Certified Medical Laser Safety Officer (CMLSO) for the hospital. Responsible for the laser program, laser safety and staff training. Acting Clinical Engineering Director on 3 occasions. General Device Knowledge: Invasive blood pressure, non-invasive blood pressure, electrocardiograms (3, 5 and 12 lead), oxygen saturation, heart-lung machines, cell savers, database systems, air flow meters, amplifiers, ventilators, bedside monitors, blood gas analyzers, heaters/coolers, CO2 sensors, cpap machines, defibrillators, pacemakers, dialysis machines, electro-surgery devices, fetal monitors, holter monitors, network devices (hubs, switches, routers, telemetry systems, ultrasound imagery systems), computer operating systems and clinical applications, All Operating Room devices, Ambulatory Surgery devices, Endoscopy devices, Device Failure Evaluations for OR. Responsible for 30,000 biomedical devices total. Praised for Professionalism: "his knowledge and competence . . . are second to none. He is our 'go to' guy". . . "I am continually impressed with Ray's knowledge, professionalism and the quality of his work". . . "Ray's attitude and work ethic are very admirable". . . "he worked exceptionally well with the technical staff on difficult, time-sensitive projects". . ."provided excellent technical design recommendations during the network redesign and area renovations for Nuclear Medicine equipment". (Quotes from Performance Evaluation and a Letter of Recommendation)
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