By Adam Wilmoth Energy Editor awilmoth@oklahoman.comAfter a career in operations, Jason Pigott suddenly found himself in charge of information technology at Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp. "At first I had no idea why I was leading IT, but putting operations and IT together has transformed fundamentally how we do business and how we think about information," Pigott, Chesapeake's executive vice president of operations and technical services, said earlier this month during a presentation at the Oklahoma State University Energy Conference. It took only about three hours for Pigott — and others at Chesapeake — to see the benefit of bringing together the new, high-tech, computer-driven parts of the business with the more traditional oil-field operations teams. "The IT big data team didn't know operations, and the operations team didn't know what big data could do.Read more on NewsOK.com