Your experience managing ophthalmic administrative services, including refractive surgery, safety, infection control, and training programs directly translates to the Health IT field. You're familiar with standards, regulations, and policies, which is critical in health IT to maintain compliance and patient data security. Plus, your background in maintaining equipment can be applied to managing and troubleshooting healthcare IT systems.

Your experience operating and maintaining ophthalmic equipment, providing technical assistance, and managing clinic activities translates well to IT support. Your familiarity with troubleshooting equipment and managing resources can be applied to resolving technical issues for computer users. Also, your attention to detail and procedural compliance is beneficial for following standardized IT support protocols.

Your meticulous approach to following procedures, managing ophthalmic equipment maintenance/calibration, and executing self-inspections shows a strong aptitude for QA/Test Automation. The attention to detail required in your role, along with your experience in ensuring compliance, aligns well with the responsibilities of a QA engineer who needs to meticulously test software and systems.

The data collection and analysis skills you used for visual screening tests, such as visual acuity, color vision, and depth perception, can be translated into data analysis. Your experience in recording patient case histories and reporting findings can be applied to collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data to identify trends and insights.