Optometry resume

Logan Halloran

Optician/Ophthalmic Assistant 5 Years Experience 561-512-4440 loganhalloran@about.me about.me/loganhalloran

Objective: Provide optometric services to the patients of Bryan/College Station, to include eye screening, diagnostic tests, refraction, spectacle ordering, fitting, repair, and clerical duties.

Work Experience 1

Year Working at Marr Eye Center, Ophthalmic Assistant Screened patients for routine eye exams, glaucoma exams, and cataract exams.

Assisted in scheduling & performing special imaging and testing, to include Heidelberg Ocular Coherence Tomography, keratometry, fundus photography, and visual fields.

Performed ‘glasses checks’ for patients unhappy with their new glasses, using knowledge of lens fabrication learned in Army, with 100% rate of discovery of faults.

Assisted glasses sales shop as needed in repairing, selling, and ordering glasses.

3.75 Years U.S. Army, Optician.

6 Months at G-Eyes Laboratory, Balad, Iraq mass producing glasses.

12 Months combined experience at various Army Optometry Clinics.

Screened thousands of patients for visual acuities.

Fabricated spectacles, to include plastic frame, wire frame, and safety inserts.

Produced CR-39, polycarbonate, and hi-index lenses.

Supported multiple humanitarian missions in Iraq, servicing Iraqi citizens and children.

Supervised and managed clinic lab at the Joint Medical Clinic, Balad, Iraq, increasing gross production by 300%.

1.25 Years Scott & White Memorial Hospital, Eye Institute, Ophthalmic Assistant Trained under Dr. Robert H. Rosa, M.D., Retinal Research Pathologist, specializing in Age-Related Macular Degeneration.

Trained under Suzanne Whatley, COT, Lead Retinal Imaging and ERG Technician.

Screened patients in visual acuities, refractions, color vision, prepped for and participated in minor invasive and non-invasive surgical eye procedures, to include repairs of retinal detachments, intravitreal injections of Avastin, Lucentis, Eylea, and methotrexate, treatment of endophthalmitis, cataract surgeries, victrectomies, edudative and nonexudative macular degeneration, various states of retinopathy, YAG laser capsulotomies, retinal venous and arterial occlusion treatments, and more.

12 Months lead technician under Dr. Rosa.

Worked with 8 other Optometrists and Ophthalmologists screening and treating patients.

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Developed professional and positive working relationships with nearly 300 patients in home clinic as well as thousands of routine and new patients in other clinics.

Participated in assessment of patients in ongoing medical studies.

Conducted ‘glasses checks’ for patients unhappy with their lenses.

Education Naval Ophthalmic Support & Training Activity (NOSTRA), Yorktown, VA. Focus: Optical Laboratory Sciences Central Texas College, Killeen, TX. Focus: Associate’s Degree of Liberal Studies Scott and White Memorial Hospital Eye Institute Focus: Ophthalmic Assistant Training Program

Awards/Achievements 75,000 pairs of glasses made while serving in the Army.

25,000 patients personally serviced.

10,000 optical lenses surfaced.

70,000 troops, 20,000 Iraqi citizens, and 5,000 detainees serviced while in Iraq. $500,000 in U.S. Army equipment held personally responsible for while in service.

HIPAA Certified.

15 months served in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Skills Expert in operating optical laboratory machinery, to include lens generators, blockers, finers, polishers, spotters, edgers, bevellers, heaters, manual and automatic lensometers, and more.

Highly proficient in optical clinical machinery, routines, and programs.

Medical scribing with different doctors in correct ophthalmic syntax.

Able to refract patients for DVA, NVA, and intermediate distances.

Consistent standard of detailed and accurate detailed HPI for every patient on every visit.

Assisting in sterile surgical procedures, to include preparing medications and patients.

Able to recognize possible diagnoses and run concurrent applicable diagnostic measures.

References available upon request