TRACEY BROWN
* ***** ******, ******** ****, AB, T8A 1H7
Cell: 780-***-**** Email: *************@*******.***
Career Objectives:
I am seeking a full time challenging position with long-term growth potential. My employers
know me to be a quick learner, hard-working, loyal, dedicated person who enjoys learning new
things to advance within the organization. I have the patience and self-discipline to perform
accurate work without supervision. My work ethics place patient/client respect and business
confidentiality as priorities in the workplace. I excel in customer service, trouble shooting,
telephone etiquette and attention to detail.
Areas of Effectiveness
Customer Service
Reception and Administration
Managerial
Administration/Bookkeeping
Billing Alberta Health and Wellness, WCB, Armed Forces, Social Services, Great West Life,
Quickcard and patients.
Bedford Accounting – AR, AP, payroll and monthly statements
Data entry Genie Optometric, I-File, Imac Mediplan systems, My Vision Express,
Healthquest EMR
VAX’s
Transcription
Reception – booking, confirming, changing and cancelling of appointments, pulling daily
charts, typing charts ordering office supplies, filing, answering telephone calls and
directing to appropriate person.
Proficient in Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, Power Point
Bank deposits, balancing of day sheets and debit machine
Control of invoicing, credits and accounts
Ophthalmologist Assistant/Registered Contact Lens Practitioner/Manager Registered Optician
Employee management, hiring and training of new staff, scheduling, employee reviews.
Retinal Screening, sight-testing, manifesting, autorefraction, IOP’s with tonopen and air
puff tonometer, use of AO phoropter, B-Scan, A-Scan, lensometer, keratometer, slit
lamp, radiuscope, ophthalmascope.
Patient history, dilating of the eyes with different drops
Performing OCT’s, HVF, A-Scans, IOL Master, Spec Mic’s, Schirmer’s Test, Ishihera, VA’s,
pentacam’s, color vision tests, wavescans for Refractive surgery.
Wavescans for Refractive surgery.
Sterilizing surgical appliances, equipment and rooms. Ordering ophthalmic drops,
stocking examination rooms.
Recovery room care Cataract surgery (Vitals, drop regimen, p/o charts).
Contact lens trainings, specialty CL’s fittings, assessments and ordering.
Lab Manager/Technician
Teaching learning seminars on policies, procedures, customer service techniques,
problem solving techniques, frame adjustments, measuring bifocal, trifocal and
progressive heights.
Ordering the lenses from various labs for 7 dispensers, dealing with the lab calls.
Neutralizing and verifying the glasses coming in from different labs.
Setting up and edging of the jobs ordered as uncut (SV, Bifocal, Trifocal, Progressive).
Repairing glasses.
Calibrate the tracing and edging machines and performing hand edging.
Helping the dispensers choose the proper lenses, and frames, troubleshooting,
adjustments, problem solving.
Completing and processing lab statements.
Setting up Trade Shows displays and on-site promotion.
Use of Topcon ALE 1000 edger and equipment, Essilor edger and tracer, Weco edger
and tracer
Education and Training
2014 - 2015 NAIT Medical Terminology
2014 Continuing Education – Administrative Assistant Fundamentals
1998 AOA International Contact Lens Practitioner License
1996 - 1998 NAIT – Completed year one and two of contact lens practitioner course
1986 AOA – Registered Optician License
1983 - 1985 GMCC – Completed a two year ophthalmic dispensing course
1983 Jasper Place High School – General and Business Diploma
Work History
2013-Present Eyecare Group, Edmonton - Registered Optician
Part-time
2013-2014 Eye-Q Premium Laser - Ophthalmologist Technician- 1 year maternity leave
contract
2012 – 2013 Trendy Modern Optical, Edmonton - Registered Optician/Registered Contact
Lens Practitioner
Established new optical location.
2008 – 2012 Thompson Optics, Edmonton - Registered Optician/Registered Contact Lens
Practitioner
2005 – 2008 MD Opticians, St. Albert, AB - Lab Technician/Registered
1998 – 2008 Dr. E.J. Rudnisky Professional Corporation, Edmonton Ophthalmologist
Assistant/Registered Contact Lens Practitioner
1996 – 1998 Uptown Eyecare Center, Edmonton - Managing Optician/Student Contact Lens
Technician
1992 – 1995 20/20 Optical/Family Vision Care, Edmonton
Lab Manager/Licensed Optician
1991 – 1992 Double “B” Glass, Edmonton - Bookkeeper
1989 – 1991 Dr. L. Fekete O.D, Edmonton - Licensed Optician
1988 – 1989 Zeller’s Optical, Edmonton/Fort McMurray - Managing Optician
1987 – 1988 American Optical, Edmonton - Managing Optician
1982 – 1987 Centennial Fashion Eyewear (A.O.S. Group), Edmonton Training Optician
Interests and Hobbies
I enjoy staying active and have a passion for all styles of dancing. I volunteer at Hope Mission and
the SPCA when I can. I donate regularly to these causes plus S.C.A.R.S (Second Chance Animal
Rescue Society).