He earned an associate degree in electromechanical technology and bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering technology at RIT/NTID, and a master’s degree in manufacturing systems engineering at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Gary has more than 30 years of professional engineering leadership experience, and prior to coming back to RIT/NTID, he worked for IBM in various locations throughout the country, serving as an engineer, project leader and project manager. He then moved into the IBM Faculty Loan program and served as a visiting scholar, lecturer, advisor and tutor in our Engineering Studies Department.

Gary holds 15 patents, including, among others, one for methods and systems for early warning detection of emergency vehicles, another for an apparatus and method for enhancing field of vision of the visually impaired, one for method and apparatus for a tactile haptic device to guide in real-time obstacle avoidance, another for apparatus and method for sensing of three-dimensional environmental information, and another for method and system for reducing the variation in film thickness on a plurality of semiconductor wafers having multiple deposition paths in a semiconductor manufacturing process.