Khaldoun Darwish PMP, Healthcare IT Service Manager

Khaldoun Darwish PMP

Healthcare IT Service Manager

Gulf Drug LLC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Diploma, Developing Information Systems at Health Organisations
Experience
22 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :22 years, 4 Months

Healthcare IT Service Manager at Gulf Drug LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since June 2015

Main Tasks and responsibilities:
• Responsible for implementing IT projects in healthcare facilities.
• Identify needs and implement effective solutions.
• Develop and manage IT solutions, with focus on both qualitative and quantitative aspects.
• Integrate different medical systems with HIS and PACS systems using HL7 and DICOM standards.
• Manage monitoring networks in hospitals, including bedside monitors, central stations, central printers, application and backup servers.
• Manage, monitor and analyze breakdown calls and related activities
• Assist and provide technical advices to team members in trouble shooting when required.
• Manage and supervise installation, testing and commissioning of new assets.
• Attend site meetings to finalize installation plans which meet customer expectations.
• Plan and schedule for installations and required manpower
• Provide installation and warranty cost estimate for new tenders.
• Verify that PPM for Medical Equipment executed as directed by manufacturer and company guidelines.
• Planning, scheduling and implementing of a PPM program.
• Monitor status of PPM work orders.

Operations and Administration Tasks:
• Fully adhere to all defined global processes, policies and standards and to local law
• Take responsibly on all operational activity for the assigned BU
• Assign work to team members, supervises execution
• Assist other engineers in solving work problems.
• Help, support team members to perform and progress in their role.
• Verify all activities entered by the BU members in CMMS
• Maintain time and activity records of team members.
• Monitor and evaluate Team`s KPIs.
• Perform and submit employee performance evaluation of the team to the management
• Manage a minimum spare parts stock.
• Promote service contracts and sales of genuine spare parts
• Arrange with manufacturer for technical training for BU members and customers
• Communicate with vendors for specific technical problems.
• Recommend and participate in developing measures to improve efficiency and quality
• Interpret company policies to service team and enforces safety regulations.
• Manage services contracts, follows-up contracts payment
• Looking for customer's needs and create satisfaction plans.
• Provide yearly budget for business unit, and take necessary measures to commit to it.
• Support service admin team with tender preparation by providing competitive prices and service standard

Service Supervisor - Healthcare IT at Gulf Drug LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2010 to May 2015

Medical IT supervisor with strong supervisory, relationship management, communication, and multi-tasking skills.

• Develop and implement policies and procedures to maintain and administer all systems.
• Effectively manage and assign service activities.
• Integrate different medical systems with PACS and HIS system.
• Manage monitoring networks in hospitals, including bedside monitors, central stations, central printers, applications and backup servers.
• Implement, configure and maintain the following IT systems:
- Draeger Innovian Solution Suite: Web-based clinical information system designed to access patient information at the bedside.
- Draeger M300 Telemetry Monitoring System: Provides the performance of a full-size patient monitor, packaged in a patient-worn telemetry device for adult and pediatric patients
- Olympus Endoscopy Software (Endobase): Imaging system for archiving and processing videos and still images, patient and examination data documentation.
- Steris OR Integration System (Harmony iQ): Routes images, video, audio and data to any monitor, recording device or remote location, and controls OR infrastructure like lights, music systems, and teleconferencing.
- Steris CSSD Management System ( CS-IQ): Workflow Software dashboard, which brings real-time data into the SPD to optimize decisions, scheduling and management of instruments, equipment and staff.
- Omnicell Medication Management System: An intelligent perpetual inventory management system for the entire central pharmacy inventory and automates the ordering, receiving, stocking and picking processes.

Field Service Engineer at Gulf Drug LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2006 to December 2009

• Implement monitoring systems, clinical information systems, patient data management systems and OR integration system.
• Install and maintain the following Draeger devices:
- Patient Monitors: Infinity Delta/ Delta XL/ Kappa/ Kappa XLT/Gamma/ Gamma XL / Vista.
- Central Station: MVWS and ICS.
- Ventilators: Evita Family, Babylog 8000Plus, Oxylog Family.
- Anaesthesia Machines: Cato, Cicero, Fabius family, Primus, Zeus and Zeus IE.
- Incubators: Caleo and C2000.

Sales/Service Engineer at Al Barakat Group Co. Ltd.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • December 2004 to April 2006

Responsible for sales and maintenance of:
- Siemens products:
Hearing Aids:
Digital, Analogue, Conventional, Pocket Type.
Fitting, refitting and maintenance.
- Amplaid:
Audiometers: A137, A321, A321 HF
Tympanometer: 756 Screening, A728
ABR (Auditory Brainstem Response): MK22 Millennium

IT Engineer at Ministry Of Health - IT Department
  • Other
  • January 2002 to November 2004

Having hands on around 150 Clients:
- Designing network infrastructure.
- Doing structure cabling.
- Implementing wired and wireless networks.
- Installing and configuring Windows 2000 Professional/Server
- Managing Domain Controllers, assigning user profiles and managing groups,
configuring DHCP and Active Directory, assigning and monitoring system
security.
- Implementing Leased Lines and configuring ADSL modems.
- Configuring ISA Server.
- Servers hardware installation and configuration.
- Database programs using Delphi6

Education

Diploma, Developing Information Systems at Health Organisations
  • at La Sapienza University
  • December 2002

I passed the six month course with excellent evaluation, where I studied health statistics, health economics, business economics and informatics.

Bachelor's degree, Bomedical Engineering
  • at Damascus University
  • September 2001

B.Sc in Biomedical Engineering

Specialties & Skills

Biomedical Engineering
Clinical Information Systems
Patient Monitoring
Application Servers
Web Based Systems
Wired and Wirelss Networks
Cisco Switches and Routers Configuration
Team leading
HIS and PACS integration
OR Integration system
Biomedical Engineering Management
Project Management
Contracts budgeting
Pharamcy Automation

Languages

English
Expert
Italian
Intermediate

Memberships

Project Management Institute
  • Member
  • February 2015

Training and Certifications

Project Management Fundamentals (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2003
Valid Until:
December 2003
Microsoft Project 2002 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2003
Valid Until:
November 2003
Babylog 8000 Neonatal Ventilator (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2007
Valid Until:
January 2007
Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices PartII (CCNA II) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2007
Valid Until:
October 2007
Cisco Wireless LAN Fundamentals (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2007
Valid Until:
November 2007
Endobase Newcomer Training (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2007
Valid Until:
April 2007
Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Part 1 (CCNA 1) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2007
Valid Until:
September 2007
Evita Family Ventilators technical training (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2007
Valid Until:
June 2007
Basic of Monitoring & MVWS Central Station (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2007
Valid Until:
March 2007
Omnicell International G4 Sales, Operations, and Service training (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2011
Valid Until:
October 2012
Infinity M300 Telemetry technical training (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2011
Valid Until:
June 2011
Advanced Endobase Tchnical Training & Interface Training (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2012
Valid Until:
March 2012
Infinity Gateway VF6 & HL7 Technical training (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2010
Valid Until:
February 2010
Infinity Innovian Solution Suite VF5 Technical training (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2009
Valid Until:
February 2009
Zeus / Zeus IE / IVenus Anaesthesia Machines (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2010
Valid Until:
November 2010
Server & CT Set-up for Operations/Installations/Support and Interface Training (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2012
Valid Until:
May 2012
Primus Anaesthesia Machine technical training (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2007
Valid Until:
May 2007