Fawaz Jarrar

(Biomedical and Facility Management):

Medical equipment, elevators, air conditioning, electrical panels, generators, and firefighting systems as follows:

Roles:

 Dealing with OTIS elevators, Cummins and Caterpillar generators, HVAC, electrical power panels, water and foam fire systems


 In charge of its inventory, new projects including quotations & contracts, framework planning, upgrades, specifications recommendation and assignment

 Follow through with agents for the all kinds of service (periodic, Corrective, preventive) in addition to its scheduling

 Staff orientation on Fire safety, emergency evacuation and assembly

 To ensure optimum working conditions of the equipment within the facility

 To ensure new equipment meets no-redundancy policy using our best practices and most suitable specifications

 To enhance current setup using its most proper functions and utilize its operation in our best efficient scope of work

 Plan and supervise single and multi-modality or integration project

 Liaison with departments

Main duties:

GE Healthcare: service and support for Cardiac, obstetrics /gynecology and point of care ultrasound systems, with its file servers & review stations, PACS and RIS DICOM interfacing, Non-DICOM interfacing network workflow implementation/enhancement

ELEKTA Systems: service and support for Gamma Knife radiosurgery system, and Gamma plan, including data import from MRI, CT and Angiography for planning

Roles:

• Supervision, orientation and follow up with modality engineers to abide with the minimum downtime policy, efficient first time troubleshooting and cause analysis

• Installation, calibration, field modification instructions, corrective & preventive maintenance, in addition to Image artifacts & root cause recovery from raw data

• Ethernet & fiber networks setup according to best workflow, using Network Attached Storage (NAS), IBM & HP file servers, RAID, data migration & recovery of Sybase and non-Sybase image protocols

• Staff training on the workflow procedure when it comes to PACS, RIS and other as Non-DICOM environments, in addition to workflow enhancement

• Implementing continuous customer assets-updates, customer satisfaction feedback

• Centralized calls-register system with multi layer & multi level support

Key projects & project management:

• Projects range from small to medium scale, with one up to four team members with the team leader/project manager, going through the phases, initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling. The beauty of following the standard approach even with small projects is that it eliminates any surprises or unexpected delay in the project workflow and lays all the steps in line and in harmony, confirming on the importance of documentation for future reference and a good use of the database

Modality Project Leader:

1. Sabah Hospital file server (Image Vault) installed and upgraded the server with data migration to the new 5.0.1 version; Implemented on an IBM server with NAS environment on Windows server 2008 utilizing RAID 6. Initiation, planning and design phases were started with the collection of requirements and workflow, followed by the execution starting with cloning and data migration, then installing the new software on the new system. Monitoring and controlling were performed with the onset of the new system on the network and testing

2. Safat American Hospital; installed and operated eleven various-specialty ultrasounds with three team members, ranging from echocardiography, obstetrics/gynecology and general imaging. Initiation, planning and design phases were started with the collection of requirements of the workplace and customer, network configurations and workflow design to be in parallel between team members. Monitoring, controlling and testing were performed on spot during onset, in cooperation with network administrators and RIS/PACS engineers

3. Maternity Hospital; installed and operated outpatient department, new radiology section and Al Batoul center, eight OB/Gyn top of the line Voluson E8 machines, with two team members.

4. Sabah Al Ahmad Cardiac Center (SACC); implemented cardiac ultrasounds & reviewing workstations, three Vivid E9 machines & Echopac PC Project phases were going through same criteria; monitoring controlling and testing were quite different due to the review station limitations

5. Chest Hospital; Upgraded and installed two Image Vault file servers on HP servers with NAS environment, implemented on windows 2003 server, to the timely state of the art 4.3 version. All phases were quite identical to the turnkey upgrade of the ImageVault server

Modality Project Member:

1. Ibn Sina Hospital Gamma Knife: installation and operation of the system with its gantry, operator console and (Gamma Plan) planning workstation. In addition to setting up all image acquisition configurations, implemented on linux

Kodak Dental Systems: Handling dental department cephalo-panoramic & intraoral X-ray, dental software R4, and digital sensors’ tenders and sales

 Conducted marketing and sales plans, market segmentation, and product value delivery

 Arranged presales meetings to promote for new concepts and products

 Maintained milestone start with high-end sites / VIP customers

 Dental equipment tenders & quotations preparation

PerkinElmer, Life and Analytical Sciences

Installation, commissioning, board & component level troubleshooting & repair of electronics and optical system, training the chemists on new machines

Main projects:

1. Aseza environmental and food lab- Aqaba

2. Al hekma pharmaceutical lab

Sirona, Siemens extracorporeal Lithotripter, Gymna-Uniphy & Ormed

Installation & commissioning, board level troubleshooting & repair.

Main projects:

1. Jordan University of Science and Technology Dental Center, with 32 Sirona dental chairs, intraoral digital xray machines and 3 cephalopanoramic digital X-rays installed and commissioned, as part of a team

2. Rehabilitation center; gymna uniphy equipments installation and commissioning

As a trainee circulated on the main modality groups, ultrasounds, vital signs monitors, Dc shock, x-ray, dental equipment, simple lab equipment. Got exposed to the safety procedures and measurements, as well as the repair requirements and environment, using safety analyzers, patient simulators. Most of the troubleshooting and repair was done on component level