About opticianworks.com

What you see and what you read on this site has been reviewed by several working opticians, a doctor of optometry, and several opticianry students. opticianworks.com is a continuous work in progress, and will be revised and expanded as time allows.

opticianworks was launched in August of 2008. My only regret to date is that the site name does not accurately describe the sites purpose. In fact the site is really for everyone involved in the field except opticians! I hope that opticians already know this stuff. Sadly the other terms related to the field do not properly convey the target audience any better so opticianworks it is.

I have two long term goals for the site. First over the next few years I want to see an end to the textbook Ophthalmic Dispensing. It is antiquated, expensive, awkward, and worst of all it makes a relatively simple subject seem far more complex than it needs to be. Second I want to see opticianworks as a consistent top ten on a Google search of the word optician.

John Seegers is a Virginia state licensed optician with over fourteen years of hands-on optical experience.

He is American Board of Opticianry (ABO) certified.

Mr. Seegers has:

An Associate of Applied Science degree from J Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Richmond, Virginia.

A Bachelor of Independent Study degree in Adult Education from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.

A Master of Education degree in Adult Education from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.

Mr. Seegers has taught optical dispensing, optical laboratory finishing theory and clinicals for the J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College Opticianry program.

He has taught adult and continuing education courses for Chesterfield County, Virginia.

He has been a contributing writer for Vision Care Product News, with over twenty published works, including those for ABO CE credits.

He has been an optician at a two busy, high-end optometric practices, and formerly worked as a manager for a large mall-based retail optical chain.