Darein Carpenter
Mansfield,OH
Summary
Almost 7 years of experience as an optician. Motivated, personable, poised and competent with a demonstrated ability to easily transcend to various environments. Excellent team building and leadership skills with the knowledge to efficiently make critical decisions.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Optician
Ophthalmology dispensing services
Livingston, NJ
03.2021 - Current
- Monitored patient progress while wearing new lenses or frames.
- Greeted patients warmly upon arrival at office or store location.
- Assisted customers with selecting frames and lenses that best suited their needs.
- Repaired broken frames using specialty tools and equipment.
- Inspected completed eyeglasses to ensure accuracy before releasing them to patients.
- Organized inventory according to product type and manufacturer specifications.
- Ordering Contact Lenses
- Billing insurance and posting insurance payments
- Working with optical labs to ensure quality and timeliness
- Entering information into an electronic health record
Apprentice Optician
WALMART VISION CENTER
Ashland, OH
09.2018 - 03.2021
- Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Order and purchase frames and 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
PCA
OHIOHEALTH
Mansfield, OH
01.2016 - 09.2018
- Administer bedside or personal care, such as ambulation or personal hygiene assistance
- Perform housekeeping duties, such as cooking, cleaning, washing clothes or dishes, or running errands
- Plan, shop for, or prepare nutritious meals or assist families in planning, shopping for, or preparing nutritious meals
- Prepare and maintain records of client progress and services performed, reporting changes in client condition to manager or supervisor
Home Health Aide
DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAID
Mansfield, OH
09.2011 - 06.2016
- Check patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration
- Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager
- Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming
- Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care
- Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets
- Accompany clients to doctors' offices or on other trips outside the home, providing transportation, assistance, and companionship
Education
High School Diploma -
Madison Comprehensive High school
Mansfield, OH06.2011
Skills
- Excellent team building and leadership skills
- Ability to easily transcend to various environments
- Knowledge to efficiently make critical decisions
- Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes
- Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients
- Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements
- Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color
- 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
- 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
- Order and purchase frames and 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
- Administer bedside or personal care, such as ambulation or personal hygiene assistance
- Perform housekeeping duties, such as cooking, cleaning, washing clothes or dishes, or running errands
- Plan, shop for, or prepare nutritious meals or assist families in planning, shopping for, or preparing nutritious meals
- Prepare and maintain records of client progress and services performed, reporting changes in client condition to manager or supervisor
- Check patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration
- Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager
- Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming
- Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care
- Plan, purchase, prepare, or serve meals to patients or other family members, according to prescribed diets
- Accompany clients to doctors' offices or on other trips outside the home, providing transportation, assistance, and companionship
- Basic knowledge in computer software
- Multitasking
- Confidence in my work
- Interpersonal/Good communication
References
References available upon request
Timeline
Optician
Ophthalmology dispensing services
03.2021 - Current
Apprentice Optician
WALMART VISION CENTER
09.2018 - 03.2021
PCA
OHIOHEALTH
01.2016 - 09.2018
Home Health Aide
DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAID
09.2011 - 06.2016
High School Diploma -
Madison Comprehensive High school
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