Gary boasts an extensive 33 year-career in the maintenance and reliability field. Beginning as an apprentice maintenance technician with Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) UK, Gary was seconded to the ICI Manufacturing Technology group where he became trained in reliability centred maintenance, root cause analysis and total productive manufacturing techniques. Gary left ICI after 15 years and emigrated to New Zealand where he became a site reliability engineer at Shell Todd Oil Services in Kapuni. Gary spent three years on site at Shell Kapuni and developed the facilities optimised maintenance program for all site assets. This was followed by five years in Australia with ARMS Reliability Engineers, whom he joined in 2003.

In 2009 Gary returned to the UK, were he spent two years with Syngenta as a site reliability engineer. Here he implemented the Root Cause Analysis process and utilised the Isograph AWB software for reliability improvement and facilitated studies both in the UK and Switzerland. Following his time at Syngenta, Gary returned to consulting with Rockwell Automation and assisted in the development and global roll out of the Rockwell Automation Strategic Maintenance program. Gary later re-joined ARMS Reliability, starting their European operations in 2011, growing the team and customer base across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

In 2018, Gary made the decision to start his own company and is now the Director, Trainer and Facilitator of Pro-Reliability Solutions.

Gary has delivered various reliability studies, root cause analysis investigations, and maintenance and reliability training courses around the world. These are within numerous industry verticals such as oil and gas, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, chemical, automotive, and general manufacturing companies based both in the UK and overseas.

Gary’s maintenance and reliability engineering experience includes:

• Weibull data analysis
• Monte Carlo simulation
• Failure model library development
• Strategy optimisation
• Reliability block diagram development
• RCM/FMECA facilitation
• Vulnerability assessment and analysis facilitator
• Maintenance / reliability audit
• Lubrication best practice

Gary is also author and co-author of several reliability focussed papers and has presented at several conferences.