Rita Carney is the Vice President of ISD Compute Services for Wal-mart Stores, Inc. Rita has been with Wal-Mart over sixteen years and has performed several roles in their IT infrastructure services. She is currently responsible for the management of enterprise's processors, storage, operating systems and middleware technologies. Rita serves on the Enterprise Computing Steering Committee at the University Of Arkansas and the Information Systems Advisory Board at Brigham Young University. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from Rochester Institute of Technology.