Merryan Cabangcala
Toronto,Ontario
Summary
Compassionate Laboratory Technician trained to handle issues and remain level-headed. Reliable and hardworking with great interpersonal and team collaboration skills.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Laboratory Attendant 2
Public Health of Ontario
03.2022 - 09.2023
- Handles, received, sort, prepares and process specimens
- Uses Laboratory Information System (Roche) for Archiving
- Sort and send out other specimens to other regional laboratories for testing.
Laboratory Attendant 2
Virus Detection Laboratory (COVID-19), Public Health Ontario
12.2020 - 09.2023
- Handles, prepares, and processes medical samples (e.g., culture media and reagents) for identification of micro-organisms, reagents and solutions and testing up to the point of result interpretation (e.g., set up of cultures, staining, extraction, loading analyzers)
- Uses automated equipment (e.g., EMAG, BGI/CHEMAGIC and JANUS Liquid Handler Workstations) or manual methods to prepare and aliquot human samples for testing
- Uses PHO Laboratory Information System to prepare worksheets or enter data, ensuring accuracy and confidentiality of data
- Prepares, loads, and unloads laboratory analyzers
- Performs inventory management functions including ordering, unpacking, and storing of laboratory goods
- Assists with set-up of quality control and maintenance of stock cultures.
Laboratory Attendant 2
Public Health of Ontario
09.2021 - 12.2021
- Handles, received, sort, prepares, and process specimens from different agar plates, culture medias, swabs, and slants
- Uses Laboratory Information System for data entry, editing and checking requisitions
- Prepares 10% hypochlorite for everyday sanitization use in each bench for the technologist
- Prepares streaked agar plates for freezing and storage
- Streak and inoculate different agar plates and culture medias from swabs, slants, and streaked plates specimens
- Process specimens for diagnostic testing such as Salmonella, Shigella, Yersinia, Vibrio, E- coli, Shiga Toxin and other Miscellaneous enteric bacterias
- Ordering and storing different culture medias and agar plates and other necessary things needed in the laboratory.
Lab Technician
Lambda Therapeutic Research Inc.
Scarborough, ON
11.2018 - 03.2020
- Responsible for carrying out study related tasks
- Also responsible for performing technical as well as non-technical duties as training allows
- Accurate, organized, and timely completion of task in accordance with study protocols, directives, SOPs, GCP and other applicable regulatory requirement is necessary in this position.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
University of Urdaneta
10.2018
Medical Laboratory Assistant/Technician -
Anderson College – Downtown Campus
Skills
- Instrument Calibration
- Sterilization procedures
- Chemical Handling
- Sample Preparation
- Reagent Preparation
- Specimen Collection
- Data Analysis
- Supply Management
- Specimen Processing
- Regulatory Compliance
- Laboratory safety procedures
- Workflow Coordination
- Chemical identification
- Inventory Oversight
- Sample Logging
- Issue Troubleshooting
- Equipment Calibration
- Laboratory Information Systems
- Machine Maintenance
- Infection Control
- Preventive Maintenance
- Clinical chemistry
- Equipment Setup
- Supply Restocking
- Safety Protocols
- Culture Maintenance
- Chemical Reagent Preparation
- Specimen handling
- Specimen Preparation
- Laboratory Testing
- Attention to Detail
- Clinical lab settings
- Inventory Control
- Analytical Thinking
- Documentation Management
- Work Planning and Prioritization
- Compiling Information
- Sample preparation and analysis
- Team Collaboration
- Positive Attitude
- Interpersonal and written communication
- Sterile technique
- Laboratory safety protocols
- File and RecordKeeping
- Phlebotomy
- Quality Control
- Quality Control Procedures
Certification
- OSMT Certified (Medical Laboratory Technician), 11/2018
- Standard First Aid & CPR/AED Level C, 06/27/2022, update soon
- Standard First Aid & CPR/AED Level HCP, 10/18/2020, update soon
Languages
English
Professional
Timeline
Laboratory Attendant 2
Public Health of Ontario
03.2022 - 09.2023
Laboratory Attendant 2
Public Health of Ontario
09.2021 - 12.2021
Laboratory Attendant 2
Virus Detection Laboratory (COVID-19), Public Health Ontario
12.2020 - 09.2023
Lab Technician
Lambda Therapeutic Research Inc.
11.2018 - 03.2020
Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
University of Urdaneta
Medical Laboratory Assistant/Technician -
Anderson College – Downtown Campus
- OSMT Certified (Medical Laboratory Technician), 11/2018
- Standard First Aid & CPR/AED Level C, 06/27/2022, update soon
- Standard First Aid & CPR/AED Level HCP, 10/18/2020, update soon
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