Chris Puttick
Chief Information Officer
01865 980718 01865 793 496 Chris joined Oxford Archaeology in the newly created position of CIO in January 2006. Previously he had worked for an IT solutions company as an IT Consultant and Project Manager and before that managed IT for a group of educational institutions in Manchester. As becomes rapidly obvious minutes after starting an archaeology conversation with him, Chris is not an archaeologist. He graduated in management and chose IT as profession due to leftover childhood fascination with technology, and is now a career IS professional, with a specialisation in change, managing IT in new sectors (new to Chris, not new absolute!) and the use of IS to improve how people and organisations operate. His technical skills are strongest around desktop software and especially productivity tools such as OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office, network design, configuration and security, and "making new stuff work". Chris also is obsessed by the use of the web for pretty much anything. On the management side, Chris likes to work with the concept of the human organisation and finding solutions that use standards, have high interoperability and are a good investment.