Lead Hyperbaric Technician
Gulf Coast Wound Care & Hyperbaric Center · Galveston, TX
Mar, 2021 · Present
Operate a 12-seat multiplace chamber and 3 monoplace units for ~45 patient treatments/day across wound-care, CO poisoning, and DCS cases
Cut unplanned chamber downtime 38% by building a preventive-maintenance calendar for compressors, scrubbers, fire-suppression, and oxygen manifolds
Led quarterly fire and emergency-decompression drills for 22 staff, passing every Joint Commission and UHMS accreditation survey
Trained and signed off 9 new technicians and inside attendants on safety briefs, ear-clearing coaching, and grounding checks
Reduced patient no-show/early-withdrawal rate 21% with pre-dive anxiety screening and a claustrophobia coaching script
Hyperbaric Technician
Coastal Bend Medical Center · Corpus Christi, TX
Jun, 2018 · Feb, 2021
Ran monoplace treatments under USN Table 5/6 and wound-care protocols (~20 patients/day)
Performed daily pre-dive checks, gas analysis, and PVHO window inspections, logging 100% of dives in the chamber operations record
Assisted physicians with transcutaneous oximetry (TcPO2) and vitals monitoring; flagged 30+ barotrauma risks before pressurization
Commercial Diving Tender / Chamber Operator
Bayou Subsea Services · Houma, LA
Aug, 2016 · May, 2018
Operated deck decompression chambers for surface-supplied air dives offshore
Maintained dive logs, gas inventories, and ADCI-compliant safety documentation