Highlights:My career highlight was the opportunity to serve as a Senior Medical Laboratory Technologist for Lancet Laboratories which is one of the biggest diagnostic laboratory facilities in South Africa

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Goal:I would love to be a fully licensed Senior Medical Laboratory Technologist. With my current experience in diagnostics I would like to practise independently in the USA

Membership:Society of Medical Laboratory Technologists of South Africa

Certification:Health Practitioners Council of South Africa

Senior Relief Medical Laboratory Technologist 03/2024 - current
Lancet Laboratories, Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa
Industry: Healthcare
Travel Medical Technologist servicing the Western Cape province. Working day and night shift.
• Routine maintenance of the laboratory and bench work • Specimen reception and processing • Documentation of general laboratory reception of daily maintenance • Performance of clinical laboratory testing, namely; Haematology: Coagulation, FBC, Differential count Microbiology: Bacteriology, Serology, Parasitology Chemistry: Urinalysis, HBa1C, LFT’s and many more. •Reporting and liaising with the training department regarding employee complaints. • Meetings with head of department pertaining feedback on intern training. • Passed SMLTSA Board Examination with distinctions. • Troubleshooting and maintenance of laboratory instrumentation for all instrumentation to run as optimum level • Bone marrow trained and competent to assist Pathologists in performing the procedure • Liaising with laboratory administrators, nursing staff and HODs for technical related queries • Resolving issues and improving the quality of the flow of specimens • Ordering and issuing of stock to ensure the lab has enough consumables for day to day operations • Maintenance of laboratory documentation to ensure all documents are up-to-date • MM trained for ordering and issuing of stock and consumables • Haematology morphology and differential slide trained • Validation of instrumentation upon installation • Reviewing IQC/Levey Jennings graphs on a weekly basis • Performance of EQA and inter-laboratory testing on required frequencies • Monthly stock take and counting of stock on monthly intervals • Establishment of analyst ranges for on-site laboratories • Overseeing Technical staff in absence of Line Manager • Monthly review of documentation such as Temperature charts, IQC graphs, EQA and Interlab sheets--
Medical Laboratory Technologist 08/2022 - 02/2024
Ampath Laboratories, Pietermaritzburg , KwaZulu Natal South Africa
Industry: Healthcare
Working independently as a Medical Laboratory Technologist
• Routine maintenance of the laboratory and bench work • Specimen reception and processing • Documentation of general laboratory reception of daily maintenance • Performance of clinical laboratory testing, namely; Haematology: Coagulation, FBC, Differential count Microbiology: Bacteriology, Serology, Parasitology Chemistry: Urinalysis, HBa1C, LFT’s and many more. •Reporting and liaising with the training department regarding employee complaints. • Meetings with head of department pertaining feedback on intern training. • Passed SMLTSA Board Examination with distinctions. • Troubleshooting and maintenance of laboratory instrumentation for all instrumentation to run as optimum level • Bone marrow trained and competent to assist Pathologists in performing the procedure • Liaising with laboratory administrators, nursing staff and HODs for technical related queries • Resolving issues and improving the quality of the flow of specimens • Ordering and issuing of stock to ensure the lab has enough consumables for day to day operations • Maintenance of laboratory documentation to ensure all documents are up-to-date • MM trained for ordering and issuing of stock • Haematology morphology and differential slide trained--
Intern Medical Technologist 02/2021 - 06/2022
National Health Laboratory Services of South Africa, Durban, KwaZulu Natal South Africa
Industry: Healthcare
A one year NDip in Biomedical Technology training program in Clinical Pathology. A multidisciplinary clinical program encompassing Chemistry, Haematology and Micribiology.
I was expected to observe and work in a hospital setting where they received extensive training in laboratory science. Here, the following tasks were performed: • Routine maintenance of the laboratory. • Specimen reception and processing • Documentation of general laboratory reception of daily maintenance • Performance of clinical laboratory testing, namely; Haematology: Coagulation, FBC, Differential count Microbiology: Bacteriology, Serology, Parasitology Chemistry: Urinalysis, HBa1C, LFT’s and many more. •Reporting and liaising with the training department regarding employee complaints. • Meetings with head of department pertaining feedback on intern training. • Passed SMLTSA Board Examination with distinctions.--

Mangosuthu University of Technology 02/2016 - 06/2019
Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
Degree: Associate's Degree
Major:Haematology, Chemical Patholoy, Microbiology
Minor:Molecular Biology, Virology, Cytology
SE INTRODUCTION The Diploma in Biomedical Technology is an internationally recognized course which is accredited by the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) for the training of Medical Laboratory Technologists. The 3-year degree programme is aimed at providing medical laboratory professionals the skills to independently evaluate and diagnose patients and assist Clinicians in identifying ways to go about treatment.