Richard Pitts

Originally an environmental biologist and after 26 years at Oracle, arrived 18 months ago at what he describes as his dream Oracle job. In becoming the Senior Oracle for Research European Advocate, it allows him to combine all his passions; an interest in wide range of scientific areas; “STEAM” in society and Open source & Oracle technology to assist in solving research problems and issues. His own research work ranged from the influence of environment on Polymorphic Genes, IUCN funded environmental studies in Saudi Arabia and Africa. He first met the Oracle Database, 1985, in a real time chemical production management. Joining Oracle support in 1996 he rose to be a “Top Gun” and member of the Bug Diagnosis and Escalation team, as well as the Global Lead for Oracle Spatial and Graph. Richard has been customer facing for the last 8 years leading, as a cloud Architect, many customer engagements employing a wide range Oracle and Cloud Native technologies. He also found time since 2018 to promote University/Industry cross over for HPC and subsequently contributing and promoting to Oracle for Research projects. Oracle for Research Projects in Europe nurtured by Richard range from medical, SARS-COVID2 spike research, computer science, applied AI and ML to Biodiversity Research.