Tarek Chebaklo, Clinical Service Engineering Manager

Tarek Chebaklo

Clinical Service Engineering Manager

D Diagnostics

Location
United States - Massachusetts - Boston
Education
Master's degree, Executive MBA
Experience
23 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :23 years, 4 Months

Clinical Service Engineering Manager at D Diagnostics
  • United States - Massachusetts - Boston
  • My current job since April 2011

Group Leader: Immunology / Chemistry
- Delegate to the Director of Clinical Service Engineering
- Pioneer of newly established Clinical Engineering Manager position
- Managing a team of 6-8 Clinical Service Engineers and 4 Technicians,
- Creating, reviewing, and updating Instrument Master Records (IMR), Instrument Packing Lists (IPL) and Acceptance Criteria (AC)
- Interviewing, hiring, training and evaluating new and current Clinical Service Engineers and Technicians
- Managing the refurbishing process and diagnostics of clinical laboratory instrumentation including QC
- Performing and managing Field Installations, Preventive Maintenance and Field Service
- Conducting various Trainings: Service and Operation, on-site and off-site
- Installing and handling all Reagent Parameters, Calibrators and Controls and running QC for instruments validation
- Advising and engaging Sales to provide customers with instruments based on their needs
- Insuring that incoming claims are properly handled
- Conducting Customer Support in alignment with the Customer Support Department
- Incoming Quality Assurance inspection: Scoring and accepting or rejecting incoming used instruments
- Reviewing Technical & materials documentation: Operating and Service Manuals, TSBs, recalls…
- Assessing, recommending, planning and implementing structural reform in Processes, administration, personnel or systems
- Ensuring accurate and timely completion of assigned job functions, projects and scheduled tasks
- Accepting or rejecting Instrument Adjustment Requisitions and Temporary Deviation Authorization on used or refurbished instruments and deciding which instruments are parted out
- Signing-Off QA documentation upon completion of Instruments testing as well as Pre-Shipping
- Conducting testing and diagnostics of refurbished instruments

Director, Clinical Service Engineering at Lab Care
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • January 2001 to March 2011

Exclusive distributors of Drew Scientific, Randox, and Audit Diagnostics.
Former exclusive distributors of Dade Behring Inc (Before acquisition by Siemens Medical)

- Lead a team of 4 Engineers and 2 Technicians
- Managed the Service, Sales, IT and Purchasing departments
- Spearheaded the restructuring of the instrument refurbishing process, field installation and service
- Performed and Managed Field Service Engineering visits and Preventive Maintenance
- Resolved incoming customer claims
- Managed Customer Support and Escalations
- Trained engineers, Hospital Laboratory Technicians and Biomedical Engineers on operation, minor troubleshooting and maintenance of instruments

Co-Founder / Managing Partner at Graphyard
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • September 2009 to February 2011

Web designing, hosting services, graphic designing, and internet services
- Managing Partner
- Project Management
- Web Developer: Develop basic websites using JavaScript and HTML
- Programmer: Develop database-driven websites using PHP and mySQL
- Domain Name Registration and Management (.com, .net, .org, …)
- Hosting management and DNS settings (FTP/Cpanel/WHM…)
- Customer Support
A Portfolio with all my work can be provided upon request

Co-Founder / Managing Partner at STdesigners (Web designing and Computer Store)
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • April 2002 to September 2009

Web designing, hosting services, graphic designing, and internet services
- Managing Partner
- Project Management
- Web Developer: Develop basic websites using JavaScript and HTML
- Programmer: Develop database-driven websites using PHP and mySQL
- Domain Name Registration and Management (.com, .net, .org, …)
- Hosting management and DNS settings (FTP/Cpanel/WHM…)
- Customer Support
A Portfolio with all my work can be provided upon request

Education

Master's degree, Executive MBA
  • at Lebanese American University
  • May 2016
Diploma, Clinical Service Engineering
  • at Dade Behring
  • June 2004

Clinical Service Engineering Training, From Basic to Advanced on several Clinical Instruments like Siemens Dimension, BN ProSpec, BCT...etc...

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Lebanese American University – LAU
  • February 2003
High school or equivalent, Experimental Sciences, Lebanese Official Bacc. II
  • at International College – IC
  • June 1998

Specialties & Skills

Biomedical Engineering
Clinical Diagnostics
Service Engineering
Refurbishment
Preventive Maintenance
Web Design
Clinical Service Engineering Troubleshooting
Refurbishing
Management
Quality Assurance
maintenance
support

Languages

Arabic
Expert
French
Expert
English
Expert
German
Beginner

Memberships

Rotaract Club of Beirut
  • Member
  • March 2005

Training and Certifications

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey (Training)
Training Institute:
DD
Date Attended:
January 2013
Duration:
14 hours
Getting the Most from Key Staff Members Using the DiSC® Assessment (Training)
Training Institute:
Lebanese American University
Date Attended:
June 2009
Duration:
9 hours
Characteristics of Highly Effective Leader (Training)
Training Institute:
Lebanese American University
Date Attended:
June 2009
Duration:
9 hours

Hobbies

  • Swimming
  • Running
  • Web Designing
    What began as a hobby turned into 2 very successful web designing companies
  • Squash
  • Football/Soccer