General Manager/R&D/Technical management
Jeff Trail
Full Spectrum Inc.
23 B Coolidge Ave.
Ormond Beach FL.
386-673-7920
specs31@aol.com (p) specoptics@aol.com (w)
Experience:
Full Spectrum Inc. 1989 to present (owner) full service optical wholesale lab. Currently 5 employee's in the lab. Run 2113 generators (2) a 108ct and Briot and weco patternless systems. Job load at maximum was 150 to 175 jobs per day from surfacing to finishing. Handle all phases of running the business from lens ordering and stock to book work and accounting. Belong to the OSC buyers group and work with AO/Sola, Essilor, X-cell, Younger, Seiko, Premium Dynamics.
* Current lens inventory in the mid $70 thousand range.
* Can run all aspects in a wholesale environment (surfacing & finishing)
* Track and maintain work flow in a high paced high pressure lab atmosphere.
* Take care of lens ordering (barcode and faxed)
* Give in-house and on-site seminars on ophthalmic lens (designs and materials)
* My lab is an accredited site with H. C. C. as an instructional site on lab
(WebCT) (opticenry degree)
* Breakage runs at 1.5 to 2%
* Develop accounts across the central Florida region as well as a long the East coast.
Strong theoretical background, formulas and seminar based instruction (wholesale and retail)
Full Spectrum equipment and consulting work as a consultant in line production as well as equipment purchasing and calibration and repair. Both in wholesale environment as well as retail and refraction. ($45 per hour) Correcting problems in production (breakage and employee relations and production) Buying and maintaining stock. Charting and correcting work flow problems and floor layout based on volume. Decreasing breakage in production through employee management, work flow and machinery calibration or upgrading. On the retail side frame tracking and bar coding, frame placement and display, volume buying . Patient trends in lens type (design/material) position of employees vs. production and placement. Increased sales through inner office communication.
Equipment I am familiar with:
Surfacing: Coburn 108,108ct,2113 generators
Gerber SGX
Optronics whisper
Finishing: Briot 5000, 6000 and Acura
Santinelli
Weco 440, 440A
Optronics 6e
Essilor Gama
Layout: Coburn 700
99A blocker (117 alloy)
99 blocker
Gerber 1 step (wax)
Cyl. machine: Coburn 505
Coburn 506
Inland stand and table top
Retail: Reichert digital lenscheck
B&L lensometer
Marco 101 Lensometer
Refracting: Plus as well as minus phoropters (mostly AO)
Slit lamps
Visual fields
Ran this business from the existing location (Full Spectrum Inc. lab) from 1987-through present time frame. Consulting side mainly has to do with sales techniques and general work in the retail location, frame ordering, advertising and employees training on proper dispensing and fitting procedures.
OceanShore Optical: retail optical location (owner) 1995-1999 Ran the store and placed all ordering and advertising and staff training. 3 employee's and a daily average of 10 to 12 exams and 14 to 16 sales. Full service location with two refracting lanes and 750 to 1000 frames. Mostly high end merchandise. Luxotica, Revo, Armani, DkNY, Christian Dior .Sold the store to the group that is buying the lab at present.
Flagler Optical : retail location, 1988 through 1998. Bought the store in 1994 from previous owner. Sold it with the other store to the same group of OMD's.
Education: Hurricane High School 1982, Hurricane W.Va..
Daytona Com. College 1987 Advertising and marketing
Hillsborough Com. College 2000-2002 Getting an A. S degree in opticenry (finishing up the elective class required all technical class have been passed) GPA 3.09
Classes include :Geometric optics
Ophthalmic lab
Anatomy and physiology
Refractometry
Contact lab/fitting and pathology
Directed research
Ophthalmic dispensing
License: ABO certified
POF member
OLA member
Published: Articles in Review of Optometry, dealing with PAL's, Poly's and aspherical designs and materials. Vision Monday contributing to numerous articles dealing with the wholesale industry.
Website: regular contributor to www.optiboard.com , last count since it was redesigned around 640 or so postings, mostly technical help. Site is 99% optical people (opticians/Lab/ODs) all postings under my regular name Jeff Trail
Sci.med.vision newsgroup, along the lines of 2,000 contributions over the last 7 or so years I have been in the group. Mainly dealing with general public optical questions and explaining it in terms they can understand
Software: Windows95/98 2nd edition/ XP ..MS works/MS office/ MSmoney .... technical programs RXP / RXPii/ Solacalc/ Myinvoicedeluxe.
Buyer's group: OSC, one of the original members and helped Danny Pugh in setting up the group, a group of 43 independent wholesale labs. Connections with a wide range of mid sized wholesale labs and the owners a broad cross section across the East coast and mid west and a couple on the West coast.
Specialty: optics (formula)
# Prentice to figure induced prism
# Snells law for ray deviation
# Nominal power formula, back and front surface power
# Cross cylinder transposition
# Spherical equivalent
# Power in oblique meridians
# Compensated powers
# resolving prism
# Martin's formula for lens tilt
# Spectacle magnification
# Thompson's formula for obliquely crossed cylinders
# Fresnel's equation for reflection and loss of light transmission
# Vertex compensation
# Prism
# Bicentric grinding(slab/reverse slab/mixing seg types)
low vision and complicated RX work i.e. dive masks, Lenticular's, biconcave and biconvex, high prism. Worked on laser sights for Radon, multi lens system using prism for laser guidance. Optics for a cellular phone project, taking the given parameters and amount of magnification and figuring and cutting the proper radius of curvature.
References:upon request
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