From the Frontlines to the Frontpage
Eddie’s journey started in the sand and heat of the Persian Gulf. As a soldier in the legendary 1st Infantry Division — “The Big Red One” — during the 1st Gulf War, he learned discipline, leadership, and what it means to show up when it matters. Those values never left him. They shaped every chapter of his life that followed, from the way he leads his family to the way he runs his business. When you’ve stood on the frontlines, you don’t cut corners, and you don’t quit when things get hard.
After returning home and going to college, Eddie felt called to serve in a different way. For over 20 years, he pastored churches and poured into his community. During those years he discovered something unexpected — a love for building websites. What started as a hobby, tinkering with code between sermons, quickly became something more. By 1999, he was building websites professionally, and a new career was born. Two decades in the pulpit taught him how to listen, how to connect, and how to truly understand what people need — skills that would prove just as valuable in the tech world.
Over two decades of building websites and digital marketing for local businesses, Eddie kept seeing the same heartbreaking pattern: hardworking business owners — plumbers, HVAC techs, dentists, roofers — who were amazing at their craft but were losing thousands of dollars because they couldn’t answer every phone call, didn’t have a modern website, and weren’t showing up on Google. He watched great businesses struggle and sometimes fail, not because of their work, but because of their digital presence. It was a problem he saw in every town he worked in, across every industry.
That’s why Eddie created AI Employee-as-a-Service. He combined his 27+ years of tech experience with cutting-edge AI to build something that solves the problem at its root. Now, a local plumber can have the same AI-powered phone system, website, and marketing engine that Fortune 500 companies use — for a fraction of the cost. Eddie didn’t build AIEAAS to chase a trend. He built it because he’s spent decades watching good people lose business they deserve, and he finally had the technology to fix it.