CV Profile No.35085

Experience in the following industries :

• Health, pharmacy, hospitals, medical equipment
• Pharmaceutical industry
• Quality, methods
• Research and development

Professional experience

• Pharmacy Technician/ Pharmacovigilance Officer
• RFM Eswatini Nazaren Health Institution
• Since 12.2014
• Meticulously process and fill prescriptions before educating patients in use and compliance with medication guidelines. Liaise effectively with physicians, labs, and pharmacists; assess pharmaceutical stock levels and remove outdated drugs. • Reviewed medication orders and prescriptions and organized medications for dispensing; calculated quantities, prepared labels, and reconstituted oral suspensions and solutions. Responded to patients’ questions, troubleshot medical issues, and facilitated billing processes • Sensitizing patience on reporting any adverse drug reactions and events, adverse drug reporting recording and reporting adverse reactions received from healthcare professionals and consumers • Conducting in-depth interviews with patients and healthcare professionals • Developing a thorough knowledge of products • Completing periodic safety update reports on drugs and other treatments, writing and reviewing serious adverse effects reports and forms. • Flagging up early warning signs of adverse effects of drugs and minimizing the risk of serious side effects. • Completing safety audits, documentation and filling. • Working on clinical trials of new drugs keeping a close watch on serious side effects •

• Pharmacy Technician/Warehouse supervisor
• Inter-trade Pharmaceuticals
• 08.2013 - 12.2014
• • Achieved high levels of customer satisfaction through excellence in receiving, identifying, dispatching and assuring quality of goods • Measured and reported the effectiveness of warehousing activities and employees performance • Organized and maintained inventory and storage area • Ensured shipments’ and inventory transactions’ accuracy, supplying medicines to retail pharmacies and hospitals. • Communicated job expectations and coached employees • Determined staffing levels and assign workload • Interfaced with customers to answer questions or solve problems • Maintained items record, document necessary information and utilize reports to project warehouse status • Identified areas of improvement and established innovative or adjust existing work procedures and practices • Conferred and coordinated activities with other departments quarantined damaged and expired medicines , destroyed them according to regulations laid down by Medicines Council of Zimbabwe Maintained cold chain on medicines which required cold chain and recorded temperatures on cold chain chart Key contributions • Measured and reported the effectiveness of warehousing activities and employees performance and recommend staffing levels as per work overload • Wrote standard operating procedures and conducted presentations on stock inventory, warehouse management to reduce the number of trainings and provide improved quality goods and services

• Pharmacy Technician- Stores Manager
• Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital
• 01.2010 - 08.2013
• • Issued medicines from drug stores to dispensary unit • Submitted monthly returns to Logistics Unit for ARVS and Medicines for purchasing and ordering • Advising Central Buying Unit on which medicines to be purchased • Ensured timely delivery of primary health care packages to primary health care facilities and clinics Physical stock counts • Managed junior staff • Ensured shipments’ and inventory transactions’ accuracy • Organized and maintained inventory and storage area conducted support and supervision to primary health care facilities and clinics. Quarantined all destroyed and expired medicines and destroyed them according to regulations set by Medicines Council Of Zimbabwe. Assisted in the dispensary to dispense to inpatients and out patients and provided quality counselling on how to use the medicines and side effects and to report any if experiencing unwanted medicine reactions. Key contributions • Ensured deliveries from suppliers were done on time to improve availability of medicines in the hospital by 75% • Introduced the swopping of short dated medicines with other facilities so as to prevent medicines from expiring and destroying them and prevent loss of money • Ensuring timely delivery of primary health care packages to primary health care facilities and clinics Physical stock counts