Rick Stark – Operations Director

Rick has been with Blue Buddies for over 20 years, longer than Kel who he remembers inducting into the organization all those years ago.   Rick is a real devotee to the gaming industry.  At home he has installed an impressive home cinema, complete with 7.1 surround sound and a $25,000 projector.  When the Blue Buddies research laboratories want to test their latest graphics and sound systems, Rick is their number one test customer – if he likes it, it will be good enough for anyone in the market.  Rick has seen the market develop from the first colored blocks moving on a screen to the massively impressive and realistic 3D pictures and great sound being offered today.  After an early career in the mail distribution center and then in sales, Rick worked his way up through the business and took over the helm of Operations two years ago.  His main challenge has been to deal with balancing staffing at the factories with the unpredictable demand pattern for consoles.  The patterns that existed with peaks during the winter season and just before the summer break no longer occurred.