Gary regularly leads high-profile planning engagements in a variety of community settings, addressing the gamut of community planning issues down to the corridor, district, and neighborhood levels. He has project experience with 26 comprehensive community plans, and his consulting work has taken him to 12 states, including Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah. This has included leading a significant station area planning effort for a potential new commuter rail line in Chicago's south suburbs and contributing to other transit-supportive development projects in North Carolina, the Salt Lake City area, and Houston; addressing community cohesiveness and socioeconomic considerations for a planned freeway corridor in the Phoenix area; and preparing a Trail Master Plan for fast-growing Pearland, Texas.

Gary began his career as a Rockland County planner in New York's Hudson River Valley, where he dealt with suburban development challenges in the home of the famous Town of Ramapo growth management case. He later progressed to Chief Regional Planner for the Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC), a metropolitan agency with some 150 local government members in 13 counties, where he focused on intergovernmental issues and regional development concerns involving land use and urbanization, transportation, economic development, and environmental protection and enhancement.

Nine communities Gary has assisted have received awards from divisions of APA for outstanding examples of urban planning. Through APA and other organizations, he has presented sessions on urban planning and development topics at various conferences, workshops, and training seminars. He has also served as a Lecturer on plan implementation in the Texas A&M Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, where he earned his Master of Urban Planning degree in 1988.