Become a Google Things To Do Beta Tester!

In March, news leaked out that Google would be launching a new program for activities and experiences operators called Google Things To Do. Redeam is a Google Things To Do launch partner, with a unique opportunity to bring a few qualified, early adopter operators into the beta test.

 

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Donnelly Williams is the Business Development Manager at Altec Integrated Solutions Ltd.  Altec provides state-of-the-art ride controls, safety systems, and show controls to theme parks and entertainment OEM’s worldwide.  Altec works with their customers to solve their toughest control and safety challenges using Altec's depth of experience and the latest technology to provide innovative solutions.  As the industry begins its pandemic recovery, Altec looks forward to expanding their show action equipment business in addition to the ride controls and safety systems they are known for.

 

Donnelly grew up naturally curious about everything around him.  He would often take apart his toys to understand how they worked.  Donnelly was also captivated by movies, and he decided that he would love to work on visual special effects some day.  An episode of the TV show, Magic Mirror, helped Donnelly discover that mechanical engineering was what he would study in college in order to realize that goal of working on movies.  On the show he saw a mechanical engineer working on an animatronic, and he knew that was the career for him.  After college, Donnelly had a variety of engineering and project management careers.  At one point, he accidentally found his way into the theme park industry while working for Dynamic Attractions, then Dynamic Structures.  While he enjoyed the mechanical and structural side of the projects he worked on, Donnelly's natural curiosity made him want to understand more about the controls and electrical side of projects too.  To learn more about these topics, Donnelly returned to school with this new focus.  Upon graduating, he chose to stay within the attractions industry he had found and began working for Altec, where he has been for the past eight years.

 

One of Altec's greatest strengths is that they get involved at the very beginning of the ride development process, working during the early project commissioning stages to deeply understand the customer's requirements, expectations, and vision.  Because of their involvement so early in the process, Donnelly and his team have ample time to assemble the right team to make the customer's dreams come true with the highest possible quality.  From the early stages to the launch of the new ride, there is a relentless focus on safety.  Throughout the process, the team works to identify potential risks and hazards of the attraction and mitigate those risks as much as possible.  Risk management on theme park attractions can happen in many different ways:  design changes, mechanical or electrical solutions, controls and sensor-based options, or even operational guidelines.  These operational mitigation strategies could include suggesting what is said during a ride attendant's safety announcements, change the way restraints are checked, or even create strict guidelines as to what height a guest must be in order to safely enjoy the ride.

 

Donnelly grew up with a passion for movie-making and special effects, but that industry wasn't particularly prominent in the area of Canada where he grew up.  In order to have the chance to learn the skills necessary to break into the industry he admired, Donnelly saw opportunities to learn and grow in related fields.  For example, there weren't any animatronics companies near him, but there were oil and gas corporations.  While they didn't make singing and dancing robots, oil and gas utilize robots in other ways, such as cleaning out pipes.  While the robots themselves have different goals, they are made of ma