Overview
Gary has 38 years of industry experience including 10 years in the United States Marine Corps Reserves and 25 years with NetApp. He is an Order of the Purple(Honors) graduate of Butler County Community College and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Wichita State University with a degree in computer engineering.
While serving with the United States Marine Corps, Gary served in Desert Shield/Desert Storm as the Staff Non-Commissioned Officer In Charge (SNCOIC) of a radio repair shop responsible for maintaining communication equipment necessary for combat units to complete their mission.
Gary worked at NetApp for 25 years in various positions including failure analysis technician, end-user and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) customer support engineer, OEM applications engineer, test and quality architect, test automation engineering lead, and project lead engineer before joining Ennovar in 2023.
At Ennovar, Gary is the account executive for cyber, engineering and development partnerships; managing the internal tools development team and student training, and is the analyst for the Cyber Security Operations Center and High Performance Computing (HPC) Lab.