Linda Cole

ABO, NCLE, CPOT

Linda Cole has been working in the eye care industry for almost 38 years and is currently a Senior Accounts Manager for X-Cel Specialty Contacts. She provides customized specialty contact lens fitting training to doctors and staff around the United States. She began as a front desk manager and technician at Rainbow Optics in March of 1986 and progressed to working for Family Vision Center also in Eugene. She worked for 25 years at Family Vision Center as their Contact Lens Manager and fitter. While there she also trained and managed their incoming optometric technicians. Linda worked for a short time as a supervisor in the retina department for Eye Health Northwest in Portland Oregon. For the past 7 years has been working for X-Cel Specialty Contacts. She has expanded her career by providing CE to the Oregon Opticians Association, Kaiser Permanente, the Arizona Association of Dispensing Opticians and Nova Southeast College of Optometry.