Oregon’s ‘digital transformation’ director steps down after six months
Alex Pettit, who spent just six months as Oregon’s digital transformation projects director, announced in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday that his “role there has concluded” and that he’s searching for a new job.
When Pettit accepted the job last November, he issued a statement noting that he was “honored to once again contribute to Oregon’s technology future — helping modernize legacy platforms, evolve our enterprise architecture, and prepare for the demands ahead.”
That job was his third with the state. From 2014 to 2018, Pettit had served as Oregon’s chief information officer, before spending a year as the chief enterprise architect in the Oregon secretary of state’s office. Terrence Woods, formerly Oregon’s deputy CIO, took over as the state’s top technology official in 2018 and has continued on in the role.
Pettit returned to the private sector briefly before, in January 2020, he took a job as Colorado’s chief technology officer. He stayed in that role nearly six years before rejoining Oregon last November.
His post doesn’t indicate why he’s moving on, though he does advertise an interest in roles “involving enterprise architecture, infrastructure modernization, and government technology transformation.” In Oregon, he wrote, “our team worked to strengthen enterprise infrastructure services, advance resilience planning, and begin shaping a platform-oriented approach to shared technology services.”
Pettit also holds the distinction of having served in a top technology position in a third state: from 2010 to 2014, he served as Oklahoma’s chief information officer. Outside several private-sector management roles, he also spent a decade, from 1998 through 2008, as the chief technology officer of Denton, Texas, a midsized city in the north of the state best known for its major universities (University of North Texas and Texas Woman’s University) and its music scene.
