Resume
Organ procurement operations professional with five years in the operating room across three Florida organ procurement organizations: 850+ recovery procedures and 2,500+ organs recovered. Completing an MBA in IT Management (January 2027). I build data tools and AI-assisted workflows, run my own business, and publish original research on health systems and public institutions.
Experience
Time-critical organ recovery coordination across surgical teams, hospital ORs and aviation providers; first assistance and organ packaging; clinical documentation in a CMS-regulated environment; hands-on work with organ preservation and perfusion technology.
Surgical first assistant for deceased-donor organ recovery across dozens of hospitals in North Florida. Recovery surgeon of record for 500+ non-transplant research organs, performed and signed off under the supervision of a mentoring physician. Procedural records kept to NIH, CMS and institutional standards.
E-commerce and contracting business grown roughly 30% year over year for two consecutive years; built on AI-assisted workflows, SQL and Tableau reporting, and automation.
Recruited, trained and supervised seasonal staff for outdoor education programs serving 200+ participants; ran waterfront safety operations and emergency response.
Research and analysis
Three Systems, One Mission (November 2026): self-directed field study of Poltransplant (Warsaw) and the Ukrainian Transplant Coordination Center (Kyiv, during wartime air-raid alerts), compared with the U.S. OPO system under the new CMS metrics. Finding: donor identification and organ yield per donor, not surgical capacity, separate the three systems.
The Florida ALPR Transparency Project (2026): public-records analysis of license plate reader programs in three Florida counties; findings presented to the Alachua County Commission.
Policy analysis (2026): Small States, Big Leverage (AI and the influence of Singapore and Estonia) and Social Media and Political Stability in Developing States (Tunisia and Myanmar).
NIH-funded laboratory research: UF Transplant & Hepatobiliary Surgery (Dr. Zarrinpar), Mayo Clinic Jacksonville Liver Transplant Laboratory (Dr. Nguyen), UF Honey Bee Research Laboratory. Co-author, pending American College of Surgeons abstract #5345.
Education
Western Governors University, MBA, Information Technology Management (expected January 2027)
University of Florida, B.S. Zoology (Pre-Medicine), 2022
International experience
Poland and Ukraine (September 2026): on-site meetings with national transplant agency leadership in Warsaw and Kyiv; follow-up interviews planned for Volume 2.
Clinical observation abroad: surgical technique in the United Kingdom and in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Independent travel to 50+ countries, including Lebanon, China, Nepal and Greenland, much of it off the tourist track and in local homes.
Languages: Spanish (fluent), Italian (intermediate), Mandarin (beginner).
Policy & additional
Briefed U.S. Senate and House offices on the CMS OPO Conditions for Coverage rule; presented the case for trauma kits in Alachua County public schools, which the school board approved. FAA student pilot. University of Florida ROTC participant.