Stephanie Drake recently shared on LinkedIn that she is starting a new position as biomedical equipment manager at Renovo Solutions.
Drake, a former TechNation Professional of the Month, has 20+ years of experience in HTM.
Drake didn’t know much about biomed at the start of her journey and considers it a fluke that she found biomed.
“I wanted to be an equine veterinarian, then joined the Army in 2008 hoping to become a Combat Medic (68W), but there were none available at the time,” she says.
A recruiter she spoke with was a biomed (68A) and pointed her in that direction.
“I had no idea what I was getting myself into, yet I caught on well, particularly when it came to the hands-on portions of the training. I do not believe I would have done as well as a combat medic as I have as a biomed, both in and out of the military,” Drake says.
Training came by way of the military and then more hands-on experience overseas.
“I attended the military’s biomed program at Sheppard AFB in Wichita Falls, Texas from 2008-2009. It was 10 months of both book and hands-on learning from a Gomco suction unit to closet-sized sterilizers,” Drake says.
Shortly after completing that program, she got married and was informed that her unit was slated for deployment to Afghanistan.
“That started a six-month process of additional training on devices such as would be used in the lab or imaging,” Drake says.
Drake’s HTM journey continued in the civilian world after her time in the military.
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