Denise Corbett

Accomplished and energetic licenced optician with a solid history of achievement in optical. Motivated leader with strong organizational and prioritization abilities. Areas of expertise include Insurance knowlege, lab experience and strong people skills.

Ophthalmic Dispenser - Council Opticians - Niagara Falls, NY

(2007-05)

• Prepare work orders and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses.
• Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.
• Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.
• Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.
• Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements.
• Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
• Fabricate lenses to meet prescription specifications.
• Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments.
• Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
• Instruct clients in how to wear and care for eyeglasses.
• Determine clients' current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using lensometers or lens analyzers and clients' eyeglasses.
• Sell goods such as contact lenses, spectacles, sunglasses, and other goods related to eyes in general.
• Show customers how to insert, remove, and care for their contact lenses.
• Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses, and fitting the lenses into frames.
• Obtain a customer's previous record, or verify a prescription with the examining optometrist or ophthalmologist.
• Supervise the training of student opticians.
• Order and purchase frames and lenses.
• Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.
• Perform administrative duties such as tracking inventory and sales, submitting patient insurance information, and performing simple bookkeeping.
• Repair damaged frames.
• Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise.

Ophthalmic Dispenser - JCPenney - Buffalo, NY

(2006-06 - 2007-05)

• Use computers for various applications, such as database management or word processing.
• Answer telephones and give information to callers, take messages, or transfer calls to appropriate individuals.
• Collect and deposit money into accounts, disburse funds from cash accounts to pay bills or invoices, keep records of collections and disbursements, and ensure accounts are balanced.
• Create, maintain, and enter information into databases.
• Set up and manage paper or electronic filing systems, recording information, updating paperwork, or maintaining documents, such as attendance records, correspondence, or other material.
• Operate office equipment, such as fax machines, copiers, or phone systems and arrange for repairs when equipment malfunctions.
• Greet visitors or callers and handle their inquiries or direct them to the appropriate persons according to their needs.
• Maintain scheduling and event calendars.
• Schedule and confirm appointments for clients, customers, or supervisors.
• Make copies of correspondence or other printed material.
• Locate and attach appropriate files to incoming correspondence requiring replies.
• Operate electronic mail systems and coordinate the flow of information, internally or with other organizations.

Associate of Applied Science - Ophthalmic Dispenser - Erie Community College (2006-05) Williamsville, NY