Gary is currently working as a Java Consultant carrying out Architect, Design and Development tasks. For example, Gary is currently working 2 days / week as a Java Developer for one Borland Project. As well as providing senior consultant and design skills, Gary is also very ‘hands-on’ and involved with software development on a daily basis.
Gary also recently worked on a government project supplying Java and Tools knowledge to a major J2EE development using the Rational Unified Process J2EE roadmap.
Gary is working for Borland in their Professional Services Organisation supporting Borland Customers throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He has been involved with long term assignments such as working as a Senior Designer on a security cleared government project between September 2003 and July 2004. Gary has also recently been working on a second MOD project for Borland Professional Services since June 2005, and is now the Borland Engagement Manager for this project.
Gary is responsible for supporting Borland customers using java based products such as JBuilder and Together across multiple vendor architectures. He therefore has in-depth knowledge of Serverside technologies based BEA Weblogic, Borland Application Server, JBoss, Tomcat and CORBA.
In particular Gary is involved with the support of Borland's Java products and is provides consultancy services relating to Java and Enterprise Java technologies. He therefore has knowledge of a number enterprise Java technologies including EJB (1.0, 1.1, 2.0,2.1 & 3.0), Servlets, JSP, J2ME, J2SE (Swing and AWT), CORBA, RMI, JMS, XML (SAX, DOM & JDOM), Web Services and SOAP.

As well as working for Borland Professional Services during this period (see below), Gary has also been contracted to CodeGear (a separate subsidiary of Borland). During this period Gary has developed the JBuilder 2007 Essentials Training course for CodeGear. JBuilder 2007 consists of several additional plug-in to the Ecslipse SDK IDE.This course is now being taught to CodeGear’s customer base on a world-wide basis. This work was done alongside my Borland work, when Borland had a quiet period.

Gary is working for a company called Blakes and provided consultancy services to their Professional Services Organisation providing consultancy services around J2EE. The skill sets for this position are very similar to those for Borland in the previous example.
In addition, Gary was also working part time to produce both Desktop and Enterprise versions of his award winning Project Professional Project Management Application.

Gary was working for Borland Professional Services and has returned to Borland in May 2003. Please look at current position details for further information.

Gary was responsible for the development and support of many infrastructure applications including development of Cached LDAP Service to Netscape’s LDAP Directory Service. His duties included:
• Weblogic Configuration, Set-Up and Testing.
• Design / Development of Application Services to be used by Weblogic Deployed Applications (e.g. LDAP).
• Development of Test Scripts for Performance Testing of J2EE Applications.
• Performance / Scalability Testing of the Weblogic Based Applications.
• Team Mentor. To provide support and assistance to team members.
• Tools Evaluation. To evaluate tools in the marketplace (e.g. code coverage tools for testing EJB's on the server side).

DMR Consulting Group is a consultancy supplying IT staff to various sectors within the UK. Gary was a Senior Consultant within DMR and has had a number of assignments during his employment with them. His most recent projects included:
• Java Architect / Designer – Capital One E-Commerce Project- January 2000 to May 2000
• Technical Project Leader / Sub Project Manager - NatWest Bank - September 1998 to January 2000

Senior Technical Consultant & Product / Development Manager - Systems Integration / New Technology Evaluation
When working for MDIS, Gary was a Senior Consultant within MDIS’s Public Sector Division (Health & Local Government).Working as a Technical / Product Consultant Gary was responsible for the Systems Integration approach of MDIS which included many tasks including Systems Analysis / Design, Technical Evaluation, Project Sizing / Estimating, Team Management, Sales and Marketing.
Gary also towards the end of his career was involved with the evaluation of new development environments which may be of use to MDIS in the future. This included an extensive analysis of Java 0.98 beta, 1.02 & 1.1 development kits. Gary has been working the Java platform ever since.