Pharmacy Technician Resume Example

Mid-levelGraded B by our roast

A mid-level pharmacy technician in San Antonio, seven years in, who started at a retail pharmacy counter and moved to a hospital inpatient pharmacy, where they now work in the IV room.

Toni Albrecht
Certified Pharmacy Technician, Inpatient and IV Room
San Antonio, TX · (555) 014-9928 · toni.albrecht@example.com
Profile

1Certified pharmacy technician (CPhT) with 7 years in retail and hospital pharmacy, the last 4 in a 400-bed hospital's inpatient pharmacy. Compound about 90 IV admixtures a shift under USP <797> and restock 38 Pyxis cabinets. Registered with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy.

Experience
Pharmacy Technician II, Inpatient Pharmacy, Salado Creek Medical CenterSep 2022 - Present
  • 2Compound about 90 IV admixtures and syringes a shift in a USP <797> cleanroom for a 400-bed hospital
  • 3Passed every gloved fingertip test and media fill test since starting in the IV room in 2022
  • Restock 38 Pyxis MedStation cabinets on 3 runs a day, with 99.6% accuracy on the 2025 pharmacist audits
  • 4Cut late first doses from the IV room from 11% to 4% by moving batch prep an hour earlier with the IV room pharmacist
  • Prepare hazardous drug doses under USP <800> in the negative-pressure compounding room
  • Count and reconcile C-II vault stock weekly, with no unresolved discrepancies in 2025
Certified Pharmacy Technician, Mission Trail PharmacyJun 2019 - Aug 2022
  • 5One of 4 technicians filling about 340 prescriptions a day on EnterpriseRx with 2 pharmacists
  • Resolved about 30 insurance rejections a day and started prior authorizations with prescriber offices
Education
Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT), PTCB, 2019
Compounded Sterile Preparation Technician (CSPT), PTCB, 2024
Registered Pharmacy Technician, Texas State Board of Pharmacy, 2019
Skills
Sterile compounding (USP <797>), Hazardous drugs (USP <800>), Pyxis MedStation, Epic Willow, EnterpriseRx, Insurance rejections, Prior authorizations, C-II inventory

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Why it works

  1. 1

    “Certified pharmacy technician (CPhT) with 7 years in retail and hospital pharmacy, the last 4 in a 400-bed hospital's inpatient pharmacy. Compound about 90 IV admixtures a shift under USP <797> and restock 38 Pyxis cabinets. Registered with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy.”

    Credential, setting, the daily work and the state registration. A pharmacy manager checks those before anything else, so they come first.

  2. 2

    “Compound about 90 IV admixtures and syringes a shift in a USP <797> cleanroom for a 400-bed hospital”

    Volume, the work and the standard it is done under. 'Assisted with compounding' leaves out all three.

  3. 3

    “Passed every gloved fingertip test and media fill test since starting in the IV room in 2022”

    These are the competency checks that decide whether a technician can keep compounding. Any hospital pharmacy manager knows what a clean record on them means.

  4. 4

    “Cut late first doses from the IV room from 11% to 4% by moving batch prep an hour earlier with the IV room pharmacist”

    One fix with a before and after, with credit shared with the pharmacist who signed off on it.

  5. 5

    “One of 4 technicians filling about 340 prescriptions a day on EnterpriseRx with 2 pharmacists”

    The store's volume and the size of the team. A manager can see the pace of the counter in one line.

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B
Roast grade
6
Buzzword score out of 100, lower is better

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Toni Albrecht
Certified Pharmacy Technician, Inpatient and IV Room
San Antonio, TX | toni.albrecht@example.com

SUMMARY
Certified pharmacy technician (CPhT) with 7 years in retail and hospital pharmacy, the last 4 in a 400-bed hospital's inpatient pharmacy. Compound about 90 IV admixtures a shift under USP <797> and restock 38 Pyxis cabinets. Registered with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy.

EXPERIENCE
Pharmacy Technician II, Inpatient Pharmacy, Salado Creek Medical Center | Sep 2022 - Present
- Compound about 90 IV admixtures and syringes a shift in a USP <797> cleanroom for a 400-bed hospital
- Passed every gloved fingertip test and media fill test since starting in the IV room in 2022
- Restock 38 Pyxis MedStation cabinets on 3 runs a day, with 99.6% accuracy on the 2025 pharmacist audits
- Cut late first doses from the IV room from 11% to 4% by moving batch prep an hour earlier with the IV room pharmacist
- Prepare hazardous drug doses under USP <800> in the negative-pressure compounding room
- Count and reconcile C-II vault stock weekly, with no unresolved discrepancies in 2025

Certified Pharmacy Technician, Mission Trail Pharmacy | Jun 2019 - Aug 2022
- One of 4 technicians filling about 340 prescriptions a day on EnterpriseRx with 2 pharmacists
- Resolved about 30 insurance rejections a day and started prior authorizations with prescriber offices

EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS
Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT), PTCB, 2019
Compounded Sterile Preparation Technician (CSPT), PTCB, 2024
Registered Pharmacy Technician, Texas State Board of Pharmacy, 2019

SKILLS
Sterile compounding (USP <797>), Hazardous drugs (USP <800>), Pyxis MedStation, Epic Willow, EnterpriseRx, Insurance rejections, Prior authorizations, C-II inventory

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