Featured Employee - Gary Carter

Gary Carter came to work for G&H Houston on February 8, 1993. He is the Manufacturing Manager for our Indianapolis operation and is in charge of Engineering, Maintenance and just about anything else that needs troubleshooting!

Gary was born and raised in Beloit, Ohio, on a dairy farm. Not knowing my Ohio geography very well, I went on-line and found out that Beloit is in Mahoning County, which is 21 miles southwest of Youngstown and 54 miles southeast of Cleveland. As of the 2000 census, Beloit had 1,024 people – that is really small!

I asked Gary what he liked best about growing up on a dairy farm. I thought he would say “milking cows,” but instead said, “For farm work I would say running the tractors, plowing, planting and mowing the hay. For play it would be riding my dirt bike.”

My next question was what brought him to Houston? He said that his older sister already lived here and she talked him into coming down to look for a job. It was the month of January (in northeastern Ohio) when he was making this decision, so thoughts of a warmer climate helped him make up his mind! (That made me laugh because Ed and I love Indianapolis, and when we take a trip there in January, we remember why we don’t live there!)

So Gary moved to Houston, saw our ad for help and came to interview. He was offered a job and was excited when, shortly thereafter, he was asked to run a laser. He loved the newer technology and mastered it quickly. When we opened our new manufacturing facility in Indianapolis in 1996, Gary relocated there to head up the programming and engineering. I remember giving him an electric blanket as a going away gift!

Gary has a 21-year old daughter, Jessica, who recently graduated from the Army National Guard as a certified medic and will begin her junior year at college in the fall. He is married to an awesome lady, Tracy, and they have a border collie and two cats. Gary has been with Tracy for 11 years and they were married two years ago.

Gary’s outside interests and hobbies include woodworking, CNC hobby machine building and traveling to aviation air shows specializing in old war birds.

Ed told me that Gary is one of the best engineers he has ever worked with and that he has a lot of practical, common sense. Please join me in thanking Gary for his 15+ years of service at G&H!