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Accounting, Marketing, & Fashion Studies
300 Jay Street
Room N-1012
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Email: Business@citytech.cuny.edu

Phone: 718-260-5773

Fax: 718-260-5774

Vision Care Technology, Ophthalmic Dispensing, & Eyeglass Clinic
285 Jay Street
Room A-812
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Email: VisionCare@citytech.cuny.edu

Phone: 718-260-5298

Fax: 718-254-8521

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Leslie Eden Harris

Leslie Eden Harris

Leslie Eden Harris serves as the Global General Manager of SkinCeuticals, a L'Oreal-owned line of medical aesthetic skincare founded on antioxidant science. Today it is used and sold by dermatologists, plastic surgeons, and aesthetic doctors in over 35 countries worldwide. Read More

Anthony Stein

Anthony Stein

Anthony Stein designs creative and educational experiences for a variety of industries—from fashion and retail, to technology and entertainment, working closely with Fortune 500 executives and world-renowned creative leaders. He is the founder and principal of A Stein Production, a New York City-based design and production firm that helps clients produce events and products through innovative design and consulting. Read More

Rob Piechota

Rob Piechota

Robert J. Piechota is the Director of the Small Business Development Center at City Tech–CUNY, in Brooklyn, NY. Rob is a US Army Veteran and West Point graduate having served both as an enlisted man and an officer in the Military Police Corps. He has over 25 years' experience in business working within a Fortune 100 company as a Sales Manager and as a Business Unit Training Director. Read More

Allan Virgo

Allan Virgo

Born in Jamaica, Allan Virgo was introduced to the world of fashion early on. His journey began among the patterns and mounds of fabric in his mother's dressmaking business. Read More

Paul Bernard

Paul Bernard

Paul Bernard is an innovative executive coach, recruiter, and small business consultant with more than 25 years of experience. He is the founder and principal of Paul Bernard & Associates, an executive coaching and management consulting firm. Read More

Natalia Jimenez

Natalia Jimenez

Natalia Jimenez is originally from Bogota, Colombia. She obtained an associate degree in Ophthalmic Dispensing from City Tech in 2013. Natalia worked in a small private practice in Baldwin, Long Island for a year before earning her New York license, and then moved on to Lenscrafters as an optician. Read More

Anthony Rebaldo

Anthony Rebaldo

Anthony Rebaldo has been a licensed ophthalmic dispenser since 1973 and 56 years of both retail and lab experience. He is a 1966 alum of New York City College Technology (when it was known as New York Community College) and hopes to aid future opticians with his many years of experience. Read More

Gary Friedman

Gary Friedman

Gary Friedman is an adjunct instructor in the Vision Care Program in the Business Department since Spring 2007. He received his New York State Ophthalmic Dispensing License in August 1992 and his New York State Contact Lens License in 2012. Mr. Friedman has National Certification with the American Board of Opticianry and the National Contact Lens Examiners. Read More

Francine Doti

Francine Doti

Dr. Francine Doti is a clinical optometrist and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the vision care technology program. She is a licensed optometrist in the state of New York. Dr. Doti earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from New York University and a Doctor of Optometry degree from the State University of New York College of Optometry. She has been in practice in NYC for over twenty-five years. Read More

Herbert Fletcher

Herbert Fletcher

Herbert Fletcher works for Younger Optics, the world's last remaining independently owned lens manufacturers, as a Transitions Brand Ambassador. He started in the optical field in 1987 with L'Amy, as a warehouse manager and then entered the Opticianry program at Middlesex Community College in 1989, passed the ABO and NCLE exams in 1990, and participated in a Contact Lens Fellowship Program at Yale University Contact Lens Clinic. Read More

Farhana Akhtar

Farhana Akhtar

Farhana Akhtar is a 2008 graduate of City Tech's VCT program and earned a bachelor's degree in health services administration with Cum Laude Honors. She is a Licensed Dispensing Optician (LDO) in both Eyewear and Contact Lenses and has been in the optical field for 15 years. She also managed several chains throughout NYC and is currently with LensCrafters as a Licensed Optician and former Store Market Manager. Read More

Natalia Jimenez

Natalia Jimenez

Natalia Jimenez is originally from Bogota, Colombia. She obtained an associate degree in Ophthalmic Dispensing from City Tech in 2013. Natalia worked in a small private practice in Baldwin, Long Island for a year before earning her New York license, and then moved on to Lenscrafters as an optician. Read More

Irma Lopez

Irma Lopez

Irma Lopez is a graduate of the Vision Care Program at New York City College of Technology and earned her Ophthalmic Dispensing License in 2016. Completing the program was an incredible journey that shaped her to be the optician that she is today. Read More

Ciera Watford

Ciera Watford

Ciera Watford is a licensed Optician in New York and a certified CTE educator. She is also a graduate of the Vision Care Technology and Health Services Administration program at City Tech. Read More

Drew Paul

Drew Paul

Drew Paul has a BSBA from Northeastern University and an AAS from the VCT program at New York City College of Technology. He began working in the optical field during college as a part time Lab Tech at LensCrafters. Read More

Mark Kaplan

Mark Kaplan

Mark Kaplan is the senior sales representative for Coburn Technology, a diversified manufacturer of lens surfacing products and the distributor of the Huvitz brand of lens edging and diagnostic products. Read More