WorkSmart strives to be the premier provider of IT services. With colleagues like Eric, this initiative is possible.

“Eric has been a great addition to our team.  His ability to stay on top of all the different service calls and coordinate the appropriate Consultant for each task and this keeps our office running smoothly, “said Greg Miller, WorkSmart General Manager of the Charlotte office.  He continued with a smile, “With his English major, he is very capable of communicating with everyone.

Eric joined the WorkSmart team in May of 2010 with the TECHie acquisition.  As the Client Support Coordinator, Eric is extremely busy making sure all appointments run are scheduled and run smoothly.  He is also rather busy being “green” as he enforces the recycling policies in the Charlotte office.  As noted earlier in the quote from Greg Miller, Eric has a reputation amongst his colleagues for being witty but always prepared to give a straight answer.  For everyone with a soft spot for new parents, Eric and his wife recently welcomed their first child, Matthew - one of two new babies in the Charlotte office.

In order for you to get to know him better, we’ve asked him to complete the following survey.  Although he missed his submission deadline by eight minutes, we will still post his answers!

Hometown:   Charleston, WV aka “no, the other Charleston”

Favorite Kool-Aid Flavor:   don’t they all taste like sugar?

If you could have theme music, what would it be? Jimmy McGriff - Electric Funk

Favorite Beverage: black coffee

If you could change your name, what would it be to?  Sylvester McMonkey McBean. That guy was a genius.

Any cool or “hidden” talents? I enjoy speaking in pop culture references, but that is a talent neither hidden nor cool.

If you could be on a TV show, what would it be? I’d like to emcee a reality TV show where celebrity guest hosts travel to different TV studios and fire the executives that green-light reality TV shows.

Favorite TV Series:  current: Community, 30 Rock.  All time:  Arrested Development, Mystery Science Theater 3000

Favorite Band/Music Artist: noise rock, metal, anything with a lot of drums and down-tuned guitars.

If you have to choose a movie title for your life story, what would it be? Stranger Than Paradise

Favorite Hobby: reading

Do you prefer sneakers over flip flops? No

If you could be any animal, what would you be? Shark, eagle, ocelot - anything at the top of its food chain

Favorite board game: Life, when I was a kid.  Same as my favorite cereal.

Do you have or wish you had a catch phrase?  What would it be: Rule #1: it’s probably a DNS issue.

Favorite day of the week and why:  Saturday because I get some extra hang-out time with my family.

Do you play any musical instruments? I’m a steering wheel percussionist.

What is the color of your car? Black

Can you sing? Yes, if provoked

What do you wish you were doing right now?   Hiking in the NC mountains

One place you could travel right now (doesn’t need to be realistic): Pyongyang - the least realistic place on earth.

At the beach, would you rather play in the sand, or play in the water? I would rather sit on the sand and stare at the water.

Words of Wisdom: I pulled this one out of a fortune cookie: “The greatest danger could be your stupidity.”

Eric noted on his survey, “Arthur C. Clarke said that ‘any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’  That’s what I love about tech support: every once in a while, what we do looks like magic.”