About

It’s been a journey.

Working his way through his undergraduate degree at Asbury University in Wilmore, KY, Ben applied for a job as a lab technician at Lencrafters in 1999. He continued learning the optical trade and soon began to work his way up the ladder. After getting married in 2001, he earned his Master’s in Business Administration from Indiana Wesleyan University. After the Lencrafters in his region closed their labs, Ben was hired as the lab manager at Stanton Optical where he continued to learn about the industry and excelled in his trade. He has served as a lab manager and licensed optician for stores across the Lexington, KY, Anderson, SC, and Greenville, SC areas. All the while, he has maintained a reliable, trustworthy reputation in the optical field and has traveled across the eastern US to be a part of vision missions and training other lab technicians. Foothills Family Optical, established in 2020, is nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the quaint but growing city of Pickens, SC.