AMY SMITH
123 Main Street • Atlanta, Georgia • 30339
Home: (555) 555-1234, Cell: (555) 555-1235
asmith@sample~resume.com
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Objective: Seek the Position of Medical Appliance Technician
SUMMARY: Profoundly talented, skillful and resourceful Medical Appliance Technician with over six years experience in constructing, fitting, maintaining, and repairing medical supportive devices, such as braces, artificial limbs, joints, arch supports, and other surgical and medical appliances.
Summary of Qualifications
Exceptional ability to make and fit orthoses and prostheses.
Remarkable knowledge of design, crafting and production techniques, properties of materials, anatomy and physiology, and patient counseling.
Strong reading skills.
In-depth ability to read and understand technical specifications.
Great mathematical ability.
Excellent vision and fine motor skills.
Uncommon mechanical aptitude with strong attention to detail and desire to help others.
Uncommon ability to analyze needs and product requirements to create a design.
Immense ability to read and understand written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
Strong ability to generate or adapt equipment and technology to serve user needs.
Sound ability to quickly and repeatedly make precise adjustments in moving the controls of a machine or vehicle.
Remarkable ability to use fingers, arm and hand to grasp and manipulate objects perfectly.
Medical Appliance Technician Trainee (under supervision)
Read prescriptions or detailed information from orthotists, podiatrists, or prosthetists.
Laid out and marked dimensions of parts, using templates and precision measuring instruments.
Constructed and received plaster cast of patient's torso or limbs to use as pattern for cutting and fabricating supportive devices.
Drilled and tapped holes for rivets, and glued, welded, bolted, and riveted parts together to form prosthetic or orthotic device.
When necessary, bent, formed, and shaped fabric or material to conform to measurements for prescribed contours to fabricate structural components.
Cosmetic ear, nose, or hand.
Polished artificial limbs, braces, and supports, using grinding and buffing wheels and tested medical supportive devices for body fit, alignment, movement, and biomechanical stability, using meters and alignment fixtures.
Mixed pigments according to formula to match skin coloring of patient and applied the mixture to prosthetic or orthotic device.