Senior Enterprise Architect
BP
Rick Pittard is currently a senior enterprise architect in BP’s Enterprise Systems group, working on IT systems strategy. As part of a continuation of his previous work in Enterprise Architecture, Rick also promotes the uses of the ‘cloud’ and has conducted a number of pilots with Amazon Web Services. Over the last five years, he has had a particular focus on BP’s strategies to leverage the Web, commoditisation of IT (‘Living on the Web’) and Service Oriented Architecture.
Rick has degrees in chemical engineering and moved into an IT career after years of creating, and consulting on, technology solutions in the business, from real-time process control solutions to plant information systems. Management of leading edge technology implementations has characterised much of his career.