Eric is an award-winning strategist with more than 11 years of experience in managing social media for organizations including: 

• Global News

• J-Source

• #paid

• Canadian Association of Journalists — Toronto chapter

• Journalists for Human Rights — Ryerson chapter

• Ryerson University TV News

• Yoshirt Inc

On platforms including:

Eric was a community manager for multiple Instagram communities and knows the ins and outs for maximizing engagement. (Read his interview on "How To Grow an Instagram Community")

Eric also had a personal reach of nearly 1 million followers through the accounts he owns. (These pages are currently on hiatus as Eric focuses on other projects)

HIGHLIGHTS

• Gold for Best Social Storytelling at the 2018 Digital Publishing Awards for the roll-out strategy for Global News’ investigative series, Canada's #ToxicSecret

• Judge in the social media category for the JHM Awards

• Reached 12 million hashtags on #way2ill

• Reached 18 million hashtags on #portraitpage

  • In its first 8 months, @portraitpage had already reached 140K hashtags and 38K followers

• Grew J-Source's X (Twitter) following by more than 15% over 6 weeks

• Partnered with major brands such as Hennessy and Life in Color to engage communities through contents