Eric began his marching career at Methuen High School in the fall of 1998, performing with the band there throughout high school. He continued at UMass Lowell, marching with the band there for three years. Eric's drum corps experience began in the summer of 2003 with the Spartans of Nashua, NH, receiving the bronze medal at the Division 2/3 Finals. Following that summer, he went on to march with the East Coast Jazz of Malden, MA in 2004 where the corps won high brass, visual and general effect caption awards as well as the Div 2/3 silver medal. He aged out of ECJ in 2005 when the corps won the Div 2/3 World Championship and once again received the high brass caption award.

Eric's teaching experience includes Wakefield High School, East Coast Jazz and Reading High School where he has served as a visual tech. He has been a visual tech and visual designer at Methuen High School from 2005-present and has been at Citations since the summer of 2007.