Ruben Safir R.Ph
1163 East 15th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11230
718-715-1771
Highlights: 20 years professional service as a Pharmacist, both retail and institutional setting. Served in the US Army for 8 years. Advanced Computing Skills, and training. Proven track record of reliability.
Retail Pharmacy:
March
2010 – until present:
Supervising
Pharmacist
Kensington
Pharmacy
309
Church Avenue
Brooklyn,
NY 11218
Established new pharmacy from scratch for ownership who had no pharmacy experience. Succeeded in getting licenses, NYS Medicaid on the first attempt, filling in new inventory, creating promotions, establishing protocols, hiring staff, gaining Medicare B through Palmetto and National Clearing House accreditation, maintaining vendor relations, training staff and ownership with regard to regulatory processes and business management.
2008
– 2010
Staff
Pharmacist
County
Pharmacy
580
Nostrand Avenue
Brooklyn,
NY 11216
Staff Pharmacist specializing in Medicare Accreditation, Inventory Control, and Pharmacy Special Projects, along with normal pharmacist duties
Part Time and Full Time Pharmacist and Pharmacist Intern staffing for 24 years for a small store doing 60-120 prescriptions a day and DME.
Staff Pharmacist
June 1994 – June 1995
Staff Pharmacist - Full-Time
Spectrum Pharmacy
18th Avenue and Mcdonold Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11223
Floating and Part Time Additional Ad-Hoc Work in Retail Chains:
November 2005 – June 2006
Floating Pharmacist
Rite-Aid
Across Manhattan – Largely on the Upper West Side
Floated and did ad hoc over night Pharmacist duties as Rite-Aid was going through restructuring of their management.
January 2004 – June 2004
Floating Pharmacist
CVS
Worked Overnights in Flatbush and Crown Heights. Recruited from Echerds as they were going out of business.
September 2003 – January 2004
Floating Pharmacist
Eckerds
Brooklyn and Queens
Floated in the 5 boroughs of NYC as Eckerds was going through multiple changes and suffered a severe pharmacist shortage. Eventually they were sold to Brooks and most locations closed.
Institutional Pharmacist Experience:
June 2006- September 2008
Winston Staffing
345 Lexington Avenue
NY, NY
Worked Full-Time in several Hospitals in New York City, working nearly every extra hour that could be picked up, usually working between 60 – 80 hours a week. I worked Sterile Products, Pyxis systems, Seamens Order Entery, TPN's, Controls, Crash Carts, and Unit Dose systems. I'm familiar with almost all Hospital IT systems, and was critical to helping many of these institutions to get themselves back on their feet when they were losing much of their staff. I trained much of their staff and worked performed all necessary clinical functions, trained staff on sterile products and oversaw Pharmacy Technicians.
1990 – 1992
Bronx Veterans Administration Medical Center – Full-Time
Bronx, NY
Staff Pharmacist who worked with Surgical supplies and nursing homes including Unit Dose Prescriptions
Performed TPN triple mix manufacturing, IV injection, supervised Pharmacy Technicians
1980 – 1988
United States Army – Active Duty and Reserve
Pharmacy Technician, and trained extensively with institutional Pharmacy Practice.
Computer Software Design, Network Administration and Training:
2000 – Present:
CEO and Chief Technology Officer of NYLX - Part-Time
NYLXS
NY, NY
Organized NYLXS as a non-profit Free Software Training and Educational Institution in 2000. Computer related tasks included establishing their web presence with Apache, Mod_Perl, and Embperl. I run their mailing lists, originally with sendmail and majordomo, but switched to postfix and majordomo in 2008. Teach courses in Perl, C, C++, Linux systems administration, Apache and some PHP.
December 2000 – September 2003
Chief Technology Officer
Brooklyn Linux Solutions
1600 East 17th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11230
CEO and Chief Technology Company with 8 employees. Set up small business networks, Telephony, email services with Sendmail and Postfix, popmail, and ecommerce. Created SAMBA local networks and TCP-IP networks with linux based firewalls. Created customized software with GTK, C and Perl.
December 1997 - September 2000
Manager of Programming and Intranet Serives
NYU College of Dentistry
25th Street and 1st Avenue
NY, NY 10010
Manager of Intranet and Software Development and Project Manager.
Wrote numerous database driven Web programs using DBI, ModPerl and Perl.
Installed and imported the clinical database to Oracle On Red Hat Linux.
Ported an Intranet Site from a Windows95 environment to Unix, fixing links using SED and Perl.
Ported a DOS medical database from a flat binary Database to MYSQL RDMS using Perl. As the old database is still being used live, the port has to be repeated on a daily basis.
Educational Background:
1980: US Army: Pharmacy Technician School, EMT Combat Medic School, San Antonio, Texas
January 1983 - Sept 1988 – Long Island University Bachelors of Pharmacy – Graduated 1988
September 1995 – February 1996 – Long Island University Pharmaceutics Ph.D programming. Ph.D still pending
April 1996 - Oct 1996 – Cope Institute: Programming course in UNIX Programming, Shell Scripting, SQL, embedded SQL in C and Oracle.
September 1997 - January 1998 – NYU School of Continuing Education: C++ and Unix Programming
June 1999 – Oracle University – DBA Training System Configuration, SQL Plus, PL/SQL
2010 – Immunization Accreditation for Pharmacist Provided Vaccinations.