A strategic and forward-thinking Senior Software Engineer with demonstrated ability to transform business development strategies into innovative solutions and impactful products that increase market share, elevate process efficiencies, and grow intellectual property capital.
Hi, I’m Gary. I believe that the equitable access to medication afforded by technology creates a more healthy and inclusive world. I'm passionate about bringing this technology to life and am determined to have a positive impact by transforming how people receive their medication and experience the technology that delivers it.
In my past lives I worked to make your telelphone calls sound a little better, helped bring fiber to the home, developed the satellite technology behind DishTV, designed amplifiers that use vacuum tubes, repaired and flew airplanes for an air freight company, and I toured with a major recording artist as a guitar player.
Aside from all this, I live to travel and enjoy commuting from North Carolina to customer sites and to my business office in Colorado. I dig noisy music, abstract art, and I care deeply about equality and freedom.
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Here 's a little information about what I've been up to over the past few years.
September 2016 - Present
At McKesson, I often introduce new technology by leading with practical examples and demonstrations and I regularly contribute to the ideation and realization of the company’s next-generation products. About half of the time you will find me designing and developing user interface applications for Windows platforms using C# and WPF. The rest of the time I'm developing back-end services using C# and SQL (T-SQL, MySQL). Now and then, you'll find me developing process control software that adapts legacy hardware and machinery to our high-performance next-generation systems and REST interfaces.
October 2015 - September 2016
At Parata, I managed a new software product line that optimizes productivity in high-volume pharmacies by intelligently managing each pharmacy’s automation assets and workload. In this role, I boosted internal and external product awareness through websites, presentations and newsletters and I demonstrated company products at events, conferences, and executive briefings. I also managed the product backlog in Aha! and worked with the software team using Agile/Scrum methodology. I was awarded my fifth patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
March 2011 - January 2016
In this role, I managed robotic controls development efforts for the company's pharmacy automation systems. I maintained and developed new systems in C and C# on Windows and Linux platforms and I was actively involved in market research including opportunity analysis, competitive analysis, as well as direct and indirect customer requirements gathering. I developed a novel vial filling product based on a 400 MHz ARM 9 platform running Linux and written in ANSII C and Python and I was awarded my third and fourth patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
June 2007 - March 2011
As a software engineer, I designed embedded systems for motion control and data acquisition in C, as well as software for robotics and process control in C#. I also developed DSP and microcontroller firmware for motion control including a novel motor drive system that improved product reliability and reduced manufacturing costs. I found a way to capitalize on an improvement to the accuracy of our proprietary motion controller, reducing defect rate by 9.7%. I was awarded my first two patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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