Daniel Pollak
Nursing Assistant at VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
Concord, California, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Pollak is a dedicated nursing professional transitioning from an extensive IT and operations background into clinical care, currently working as a Nursing Assistant at the Veterans Health Administration with eight years of hands-on healthcare and emergency response experience. He brings proven crisis-room composure—assisting across ICU, ED, PACU, psych, and dialysis units—and has been recognized with Nursing Excellence Awards regionally in 2024. Comfortable with high-stress, mission-critical environments, Daniel also drew on prior technical roles where he managed teams, streamlined processes, and built reporting systems for legal and corporate clients. He excels working with patients with complex psychiatric and cognitive diagnoses and has frontline experience in austere settings from COVID emergency hospitals to wildfire support camps. Daniel plans to complete an MSN after gaining broader clinical experience, blending his systems-thinking and leadership skills with clinical specialization in emergency and psychiatric nursing. Based in Concord, CA, he pairs long-term volunteer leadership in national service organizations with a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary approach to patient care and team coordination.
8 years of coding experience
Mayfield High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse, Bachelor of Science - BS Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse at San Francisco State UniversityCertificate in Allied Health Prequequisites for Nursing School, Certificate in Allied Health Prequequisites for Nursing School at Diablo Valley CollegeBS Computer Science business systems specialization, BS Computer Science business systems specialization at Bowling Green State UniversityBachelor Nursing, Bachelor Nursing at Nightingale College
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
boost-asio6
boost6
autoit6
virtual-reality4
webvr3
frame3
aframe3
oculus-quest2
polymer2
openvr2
openxr2
oculus2
shader1
webxr1
gif1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Danpollak/Word2Note
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:23 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
dafna1228/hackidcteam69
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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