R. Alan Galanopoulos
***** ******* **. ***********, **, 36567, United States
*************@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
SUNRAYS OPTICAL BOUTIQUE, Gulf Shores, AL, United States
Optician/Sales Associate, May 2008 - Present
• Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.
• 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.
• 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.
• Determine clients' current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using lensometers or lens analyzers and clients' eyeglasses.
• Order and purchase frames and lenses.
• Repair damaged frames.
• Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise.
TOTES SUNGLASS WORLD, Foley, AL, United States
Sales Associate, May 2004 - Present
• Drove sales to closure by asking questions and making appropriate product recommendations
• Ensured store was stocked, displayed and secured according to plan
• Accurately operated the POS system and accounts for all transactions
• Opened and/or closed the store according to established guidelines
• Greet customers and ascertain what each customer wants or needs.
• Describe merchandise and explain use, operation, and care of merchandise to customers.
• Recommend, select, and help locate or obtain merchandise based on customer needs and desires.
• Compute sales prices, total purchases and receive and process cash or credit payment.
• Answer questions regarding the store and its merchandise.
• Demonstrate use or operation of merchandise.
• Ticket, arrange and display merchandise to promote sales.
• Help customers try on or fit merchandise.
EDUCATION:
ROBERTSDALE HIGH SCHOOL, Robertsdale, AL, United States
High School Diploma, May 2004
TROY UNIVERSITY, Troy, AL, United States
Completed Courses in:
Business, August 2004-December 2007
Music Industry, January 2007-December 2011
ADDITIONAL SKILLS:
ABO Certified Optician