Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina
Experienced technology leader with 16+ years driving innovation and building high-performing teams across healthcare and automotive industries.
As a strategic technology leader with 16+ years of experience, I've built a career transforming business challenges into elegant technical solutions. My journey has taken me from healthcare systems at CommonSpirit Health to my current role revolutionizing the automotive care industry at Spiffy.
Currently serving as Director of Engineering at Spiffy, I lead a team of exceptional engineers by fostering innovation, implementing efficient methodologies, and strategically managing resources to deliver high-impact solutions. My leadership approach focuses on mentoring talent, optimizing processes, and aligning technology initiatives with business objectives.
I'm particularly passionate about emerging technologies, having recently expanded my expertise into AI prompt engineering, API design architecture, and creating seamless integrations between complex systems. This complements my strong foundation in AWS infrastructure, DevOps practices, and full-stack development.
Beyond my professional life, I'm a dedicated parent to two wonderful children and enjoy taking them on trips to explore state and national parks. Our most recent adventure was hiking to the top of Hanging Rock. When I'm not working, I spend quality time with my family and our two dogs. My personal interest in game development using Unity and C# has led me to publish a couple of mobile games, further fueling my passion for creative technology applications.
I'm an avid reader, particularly drawn to books on management, history, and leadership. This continuous learning approach, combined with my hands-on technical experience, allows me to bring both theoretical and practical knowledge to my engineering leadership role.
Working with a team of exceptional engineers to support them by evaluating methodologies, tools, and technologies. Managing scope and expectations to help ensure focus on the right priorities to meet commitments.
Managed DevOps and IT support teams, providing architectural expertise and coaching. Delivered releases, QA, and troubleshooting for the car care delivery platform while managing compliance and security efforts.
Led a team focused on deployments, providing mobile and web QA, and improving the overall technology stack experience. Provided architecture design and implementation for AWS infrastructure and implemented cost savings opportunities.
Provided architecture design, implementation, and support expertise for AWS infrastructure. Troubleshooting for performance of Postgres DB and NodeJS infrastructure.
Domain strategy and planning for configuration, code, and technology changes. Facilitated discussions around changes, worked with large scale projects through complex technology roadmaps, and managed long term technology needs.
Coded in Javascript and C# using the platform that best met project needs. Created UI designs and configurations as well as writing supporting code and logic.
Responsible for QA of technology and software updates for an ASP/SaaS offering with 20,000+ users. Managed teams of System Engineers and Test Analysts while serving as Change Manager for ASP offerings.
Redesigned cloud architecture to improve performance and reduce costs by 30% while maintaining system reliability and scalability.
Implemented comprehensive CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions, streamlining the deployment process and improving overall development workflow efficiency.
Optimized PostgreSQL database performance resulting in almost 50% cost savings and improved system responsiveness for end users.
Contributed to the development and publishing of multiple mobile games using Unity and C#. Implemented game mechanics, user interfaces, and platform-specific optimizations.
Led the implementation of compliance and security frameworks, ensuring regulatory requirements were met while maintaining operational efficiency.
Developed an automated system that sends images from S3 buckets to OpenAI with specialized prompts to detect specific scenarios and objects. Built a dashboard for reviewing flagged images and prompt responses.
Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, United States
eric_15_@hotmail.com
Spiffy — On-Demand Car Care