Reeve Pinto, Senior Biomedical Engineer

Reeve Pinto

Senior Biomedical Engineer

Taiba Hospital

Location
Kuwait - Hawali
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering
Experience
21 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :21 years, 7 Months

Senior Biomedical Engineer at Taiba Hospital
  • Kuwait
  • My current job since January 2018

Manage equipment complaints and critical logs through online service requests
• Maintain all Critical Care Equipment during daily department rounds
• Perform Electrical Safety testing for all medical equipment
• Perform routine maintenance & service of breakdown calls of medical devices
• Perform commissioning calibration, service, repair & troubleshooting of medical equipment
• Coordination with service personnel of various local vendors
• Conduct clinical support on medical equipment’s for departmental staff
• Impart training's to end-users in coordination with local vendors on new medical equipment’s
• Manage & coordinate with local vendor on MEP requirement during installation of new medical equipment’s
• Source spares & accessories as per requirements
• Integration of devices to HIS/LIS /RIS PACS by coordinating with IT & service personnel of medical equipment
companies to achieve paperless workflow

Managerial Experience:-
• Successfully planned and facilitated installation of Abbott Alinity line of Chemistry, Immunoassay &
Hematology analyzer’s to improvise workflow & having middleware interfaced to LIS in lab.
• Analyse, forecast and plan comprehensive & AMC on an ongoing basis for proper execution and cost-
effectiveness
• Collect & prepare utilisation data of medical equipment for justification to procure new technological
advanced equipment
• Prepare & analyse downtime data of devices to improve quality & productivity
• Assist Finance & department head in budget planning of CAPEX & OPEX
• Identified Key failure parts in a medical device and reduced vendor based cost
• Adhere to & maintain compliance with Hospital & patient mandated policies regarding workplace safety issues
such as infection control, fire safety, hazard communications, etc.
• Assist Business development department in medical equipment planning of new OPD clinic project


Quality & Process management experience:-
• Successfully worked towards receiving CAP accreditation for Lab department
• Successfully worked towards receiving re-accreditation of JCI
• Maintain asset inventory with compliance to PM & Calibration checks
• Maintain calibration & trace-ability certificates

Biomedical Engineer at Kuwait Gulf Express Co
  • Kuwait
  • October 2016 to October 2017

Responsibilities:
•Maintenance and troubleshooting of biomedical equipments clinically as well as technically.
•Handling technical & operational activities of installing biomedical equipments.
•Provide training to new nursing staff on medical equipments.
•Maintain the documentation for biomedical equipments.
•Updating the inventory of all types of medical equipments installed in the medical center.
•Coordination with service personnel of various medical equipment companies.
•Follow up the Preventive maintenance schedule and calibration schedule for medical equipment.
•To follow up with the local agents for any breakdown of equipments under annual maintenance contract.
•Responsible & accountable for overall Operation of Biomedical Engineering Department.
•Responsible for Procurement and installation of Biomedical Equipments.

Product Expertise in:
•IDS Lasers, KOREA \[Certified in Smaxel Fractional CO2, Q10 Qs:yag, Diode laser & DeAge Ex RFMicroneedle\]
•HSC Smartsonic HIFU, KOREA
•General Project s.r.l, ITALY

Biomedical Service Engineer at Draeger Business unit, Central Circle Company
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • December 2014 to September 2016

Provides client engineer service of Drager medical products as Anesthesia/Ventilators, Infant warmers/
Incubators etc.at the customer sites, working on service performance and service business targets selling of
consumables and accessories.
• Performs Installation projects as per manufacturer regulations with different clients as MOH, MOD, Kuwait
National Guard, EMS, KOC & Private Hospitals.
• Maintaining up to date service documentation & technical manual library.
• Advise/educate users on acquisition, planning and the correct and safe use of equipment.
• Performs warranty services and installations, executes technical corrective actions through computer software.
• Provide feedback on quality situation and issues from field to the Service Management.
• Report any problems to the customer when need it by preparing repair request form and follow up until resolve.
• Deployment of required patches and firmware updating for any hardware on site.
• Provides support to sales for replacement/ special sales programs.
• Provides support to sales for congresses, exhibitions, demos, workshops, etc.
• Inspecting assigned service contracts with end users on medical equipment’s, including specifications and
criteria to assure that service are provided as required.
Product Expertise in:
• Drager Anesthesia Workstations Primus, Primus IE etc.
• Drager Ventilator Evita family, Babylog VN500, V300 etc.
• Drager Infant warmers, Incubators, transport Incubators etc.
• Drager Ambulance devices Oxylog 1000, Oxylog 3000 & 3000+ etc.

Senior Biomedical Engineer at Hope4cure Medical Services Co
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • May 2008 to November 2014

Managing, Supervising, Coordinating and influencing subordinate BME technician on all functions related to the
daily safety testing, repair and maintenance of biomedical patient care equipment.
• Provides on-site leadership for all components of the medical equipment management plan, and participates in
development of departmental policies, programs and continuous quality improvement initiatives.
• Conducting corrective and preventive maintenance on the medical devices. Testing and calibrating equipments
through computer software, mathematical models and programming electronics and devising sterilization
techniques for medical materials to ensure safety state.
• Researching, developing, and installing medical products, as Deka Synchro Replay, Synchro Excellium &
Synchro HP, Deka Smartlipo, Deka SmartXide2 V2LR \[Monalisa Touch\] with DOT/RF etc.
• Performing safety checks, overhaul and installation of medical equipments, maintaining accurate inventory on
all assigned equipments and reporting management for troubles, system deficiencies on all medical
instrumentations to guarantee implementation of company business objectives.
• Dealing with a broad range of products from international companies in Europe, Fareast, and USA to exchange
technical knowledge and revenue.
• Providing assistance and technical expertise to hospitals and medical centers personnel in the applications and
operations of sophisticated medical equipments systems and electrical safety to assure efficient apparatus
utilization.
• Inspecting assigned service contracts with end users on medical equipments, including specifications and
criteria to assure that service are provided as required.

Product Expertise in:
•DEKA Medical Lasers, Italy
•Criticare Systems Inc, USA
•CONMED, USA
•Neusoft dual slice CT scan, China

Biomedical Service Engineer at Majlan General Trading and Contracting Company
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • December 2004 to April 2008

Conducting corrective and preventive maintenance on the medical devices. Testing and calibrating equipments
through computer software, mathematical models and programming electronics and devising sterilization
techniques for medical materials to ensure safety state.
• Researching, developing, and installing medical products, as Deka Synchro HP, Aloka SSD 3500SV, and ENT
workstations.
• Performing safety checks, overhaul and installation of medical equipments, maintaining accurate inventory on
all assigned equipments and reporting management for troubles, system deficiencies on all medical
instrumentations to guarantee implementation of company business objectives.
• Dealing with a broad range of products from international companies in Europe, Fareast, and USA to exchange
technical knowledge and revenue.
• Providing assistance and technical expertise to hospitals and medical centers personnel in the applications and
operations of sophisticated medical equipments systems and electrical safety to assure efficient apparatus
utilization.
• Inspecting assigned service contracts with end users on medical equipments, including specifications and
criteria to assure that service are provided as required.

Product Expertise in:
• DEKA Medical Lasers
• Aloka Diagnostics Ultrasound equipments
• A.R.C Ophthalmology laser
• ENT workstations, Audiometer & Tympanometer

Field Service Engineer at Systems Biomedical (I) Pvt. Ltd
  • India - Mumbai
  • June 1999 to September 2001

Responsible for the comprehensive technical support of highly sophisticated biomedical instruments and the
delivery of healthcare by insuring the availability of safe and effective medical technology.
• Recorded and maintained client contact data, service logs, equipment requirements and supplier lists as a
ready reference for diagnostics.
• Kept abreast of latest technological advancements on technical health materials and equipments and using the
potentials of the same to respond to the distinctive and special needs of the company.

Product Expertise in:
• Newport Ventilator, USA
• Novametrix Pulse Oximeter, USA
• Oil Hydraulic Universal O.T. tables
• Anesthesia Units

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering
  • at G.S.Moze college of Engineering, University of Pune
  • May 2004

Diploma, Electronics & Radio Engineering
  • at St. Xavier’s Technical Institute
  • May 1999

Specialties & Skills

Technical Support
Preventive Maintenance
Product Demonstration
Equipment Installation
Maintenance Management
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
PERSONNEL
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
ELECTRONICS
MANAGEMENT
Teamwork

Languages

English
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

BLS Provider (Training)
Training Institute:
AHA
Date Attended:
May 2021
Training on General project Microdermabrasion systems (Training)
Training Institute:
At General Project S.r.l
Date Attended:
July 2005
Training on different range of Opthalmology products (Training)
Training Institute:
BON optic GmbH, Germany
Date Attended:
October 2005
A.R.C Laser system for Ophthalmology (Training)
Training Institute:
A.R.C. Laser GmbH,Germany
Date Attended:
October 2005
Laser Training course (Training)
Training Institute:
Deka Medical Lasers EL.EN group, Italy
Date Attended:
February 2013
Evita family Ventilator Technical training (Training)
Training Institute:
Drager Academy Dubai
Date Attended:
April 2016
PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2021
Valid Until:
June 2023

Hobbies

  • Interest in reading articles on New Innovations