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Leaders & Achievers 2022
BRUCE PARKES
Techniques engineer, Worldwide Sport Know-how PLC
GROWING UP EATING Vegemite sandwiches in Australia, Bruce Parkes by no means envisioned touchdown within the U.S., or a profession with international gaming firm Worldwide Sport Know-how PLC.
Working in several cultures – Australia, America and rotations in Asia for one challenge – has been one key to Parkes’ success. Parkes, the corporate’s techniques engineer, additionally credit longevity with IGT and expertise using the telecommunications increase after he left then-GTECH Corp. to make fiberoptic amplifiers at a former College of Rhode Island professor’s startup firm, Optigain. Sadly, Parkes fell sufferer to the know-how bust when he was laid off from Optigain after two years.
“It’s a type of issues the place, if it wasn’t for the monetary stress of being unemployed and caring for your loved ones, I like to recommend unemployment for each skilled,” Parkes stated. “It’s actually a time to do some inward desirous about what you wish to do and the place you wish to be.”
Educating at Johnson & Wales College’s College of Know-how within the fall of 2002 solely grew Parkes’ management abilities and helped him notice product improvement is his actual love, he stated.
‘The opposite factor that actually makes me tick is to create the setting for the individuals to … do issues they won’t suppose they may do.’
“That’s why I got here again to IGT, to guide the product improvement groups,” Parkes stated.
Having a father and older brother working as electricians additionally helped spark Parkes’ curiosity within the discipline. After graduating highschool in his native Australia, he labored for an electrical utility whereas incomes his affiliate diploma in electrical and electronics engineering from the School of Technical and Additional Schooling in Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Two years after marrying and settling in Australia, Parkes and his spouse had been sure for the U.S. Parkes accomplished his bachelor’s diploma at URI in December 1995.
Throughout Parkes’ senior yr, he interviewed with GTECH – lengthy earlier than its 2015 merger with IGT. Even then, the corporate provided an end-to-end method to product improvement that attracted him.
Inclusivity in myriad kinds describes and drives Parkes’ management.
“The opposite factor that actually makes me tick is to create the setting for the individuals to not solely succeed however to do issues they won’t suppose they may do,” Parkes stated.
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