VISION MATTERS - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Expert Low Vision Devices Supplier in Bellevue

Dennis loves meeting and helping the broad array of people he comes in contact with in this line of work and working with the incredible team at Vision Matters. He enjoys making in-home visits and with his gentle approach, showing people how easy-to-use, modern devices can help those living with a vision impairment. His heart is to serve others and this work is a great way to meet that need. After work you would find him fishing or in his vegetable garden - or on a hot summer day, in the hammock with his lovely wife. A Buckeye from Ohio but long, long ago transplanted to the beautiful Pacific Northwest.

Nick is a fun-loving and adventurous husband of one and father of four. A native of Colorado, Nick loves the outdoors and has found a home-away-from-home in the incredibly beautiful Pacific Northwest. He loves working with people in the low-vision community to determine what would best help them to achieve their vision-related goals and celebrates with them when they can recover some independence in the form of day-to-day tasks, beloved hobbies, or interacting with loved ones.

As a former journalist and editor, Robert enjoys meeting clients, asking them about their stories, learning about their goals, and helping equip them to push back the boundaries of low vision, so it doesn't win or define who they are and what they can do. Retiring from a fast-paced 30+ year career, he soon found retirement wasn't his cup of tea. Wanting to try something entirely new, Vision Matters offered the perfect opportunity - out of the office, traveling the Inland Northwest, meeting, equipping and serving people of all ages. Robert is a husband of 38 years, and an empty-nester father of three ("all graduated, working, living on their own, and paying taxes, woohoo"). When not working, he enjoys Bible study, bicycling, reading, serving at church, and occasionally fishing ("the fish have n-o-t-h-i-n-g to worry about"). He describes himself as a Pacific Northwest lifer, having lived and worked primarily in Eastern Washington and North Idaho, which he now gets to explore, traveling the back roads.

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• Braille Institute Founder

Originally from Spokane WA, Sheila has lived most of her life in the Tri Cities area. Born with a hereditary condition causing legal blindness, she was educated in Pasco schools and earned her Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and Sociology from Washington State University Tri Cities. Sheila has worked as an Independent Living Skills teacher for the blind and visually impaired for over 20 years teaching life skills and self-advocacy to people with vision loss in their own personal living environments. Sheila has grown up using the very products that Vision Matters offers. She joined the team to help others like her find the right tools to enhance their independence and help them continue to live the lives they deserve. Sheila is a mother of three children, two of whom have vision loss, and she enjoys providing an example to those she serves that vision loss does not have to mean the end of the story, but a new chapter.