April Hardecki

• Provide hands-on training and technical support for Alcon surgical
technologies, ensuring successful adoption by surgeons and OR staff.
•Coordinate on-the-job training (OJT) and sign-off opportunities for fellow CASs.
• Maintain high-level customer service, fostering strong relationships with surgeons, OR and clinical teams.
• Co-host the New Hire Collaborative Group, supporting CAS onboarding and development.
• Co-creator and editor for Alcon SpotLIGHT Interview Series, implementing new protocols and templates to streamline the rollout. Successfully released 6 final interviews and hosted an additional 13 interviews in just 5 months.
• Manage multiple training sessions, product implementations, and cross-functional collaboration to enhance clinical education and support.

• First assist and surgical scrub for oculoplastics surgeries
• Obtain detail oriented chief complaint and all preliminary measurements required for surgical qualifications and comprehensive exams
• Scribe and assist during exams and in office procedures
• Coordinate with drug representatives to gain authorization for patient treatments
• Schedule and educate patients on surgery pre and post operatively
• Increased clinic and operating room efficiency by creating detailed training documents allowing physicians to expand patient load

• Performed preliminary exams and post exam testing
• Developed team communications and educational meetings based on contact lens education
• Direct contact person for all contact lens representatives and distributors. Changes to business strategies and clinic protocols increasing contact lens profits by over $7,000 in one year
• Managed contact lens inventory, sales, and budgets
• Head refractionist. Assisted and problem solved any patient issues regarding their prescriptions (glasses or contact lenses.) "Spectacle checks"

• Performed preliminary exams and testing such as Goldmann and Humphrey visual field, LenStar Biometry, WaveScan WaveFront, Pentacam and Galilei topography, pachymetry, PAM, and Heidelberg Spectralis OCT
• Performed weekly inventory and maintain clinical supplies
• Assisted private and resident physicians during refractive surgery, both chair side assist and first assist

• Performed preliminary exams
• Well educated on optics, strabismus screenings, cataract, glaucoma, dry eye, and trauma evaluations
• Assisted with routine tests, treatments, and minor procedures
• Acted as medical scribe dictating exam, diagnosis, and plan
• Assisted in training residents and Henry Ford students

• Updated and adjusted patients contact lens prescriptions under supervising Optometrists. Instructed patients on contact lens cleaning and handling techniques
• Performed Optometric Technician duties such as, triage, lensometry, ocular motility, pupil evaluation, stereo testing, angle assessment, dilation protocol, perimetry, pachymetry, ocular photography, topography, and refraction