MANAGING IT SKILLS
The Annual Conference of The SFIA Foundation
BERR Conference Centre, Victoria Street, London,
4 December 2008
This page shows the presentations given at the Conference.
Karen Price (Keynote Speaker) - (Karen spoke without visual aids)
Karen Price is the CEO of e-skills UK, the employer-led Sector Skills Council for IT and Telecoms. Karen's early career was in education and then business, including directorships in the construction and publishing industries, leading company start-ups, and also holding a number of roles in IBM UK’s Corporate Affairs and Global Services divisions. Karen led the mergers which created e-skills UK in 2000, and the subsequent successful licensing of the company as a Sector Skills Council in 2003. Karen is widely recognised as an ‘agenda setter’ in the UK’s education and training scene. She promotes a coherent strategy for IT-related skills for the UK. In 2006, Karen was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to the IT industry.
Andrew Gay - click for presentation (as pdf - 1.3MB)
Andrew is interim CIO of the Ministry of Justice. He has been a chief executive and chairman of major businesses since 1973. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building and is a Liveryman of the City of London. He holds chairmanships of both public and privately equity supported businesses. Andrew has been a speaker at conferences on IT project management and long term infrastructure planning and implementation in seven countries.
Tom Fuller - click for presentation (as pdf - 523KB)
Tom is a leading expert in IT effectiveness, working primarily with senior management on the people element of creating effective IT organisations. Tom’s experience includes IT organisation design, recruitment & retention of IT people, IT skills assessments & career development and IT professionalism programmes. Typical client challenges include defining what types and levels of skills are required to support the business’s requirements for IT, and helping existing talent to become more professional.
Malcolm Sillars & Mike Chad - click for presentation (as pdf - 173KB)
Following an IT career with the Shell group of companies in the UK and overseas, Malcolm Sillars joined the staff of the BCS in 1992 and has been involved in all areas of professional body activity. One of his first duties was to take on responsibility for the BCS Industry Structure Model (ISM), a precursor to SFIA and still thriving as SFIAplus. He became a Director of the SFIA Foundation when it was incorporated in 2003.
A trained engineer, Mike Chad worked in aerospace as a programmer and then systems analyst. Following periods as project leader with a national software house, IT Manager for food processing and manufacturing companies, and Systems Advisor for a computer manufacturer, he became the Principal in a business consultancy. Mike became increasingly involved in professional development activities with the BCS, and later with SFIA. He is an independent Consultant, Vice-chair of the BCS Membership Committee and a Member of the BCS Qualifications and Standards Board.
Jo Alexander-Jones & Alistair Russell - click for presentation (as pdf - 137KB)
Jo Alexander-Jones has been an IT manager for 25 years, both technical, commercial and as Global Business Solutions Manager. She is currently the Organisation Development Manager for BG Group's Global IT Department, responsible for the development and performance frameworks for all IT staff in the Company. Outside of work she loves travelling, gardening and photography, and spending time with her family of three growing boys.
Alistair Russell is Development Director at CIO Connect, leading their work with CIOs and their teams in the field of leadership and organisational development. Current clients include the Government IT Academy, a global law firm, a major utility, and BG Group. Alistair’s previous roles include Director for Executive Development at Durham Business School and Managing Consultant with PA Consulting Group. Alistair started his career with ICI, holding a number of engineering management positions.
Steve Watkins & Philip Rice - click for presentation (as pdf - 388KB)
Steve Watkins has 25 years experience working in Government IT operations, specialising in communications. He has had a number of senior management positions in the Environment Agency IT department, including Head of IT Portfolio office, Programme Director on a major IT business transformation programme (MBF in CIS, where he introduced skills and capability testing into the IT recruitment process) and his current role of Head of Delivery Improvement.
Philip specialises in organisational, HR and change management projects with blue chip organisations. His strong background in HR and systems implementation enables him to help organisations manage and develop workforce capability in line with their strategy. Key clients include BP, Cisco, Vodafone and the Department for Work and Pensions. Philip joined PA in 2000 prior to which he worked in both Italy and the Middle East with a group of change management consultants specialising in ERP, and for Unilever in operational HR and HR Project Management.
Paul MacKenzie - click for presentation (as pdf - 390KB)
Paul started with Barclays in the UK and Africa, then moving to a reinsurance business spun off from Lloyds of London. In 2000 he became an independent IT Consultant specialising in ITIL based Service Management projects for, among others, Barclays Africa, HBoS’s credit card division and, since mid-2006, Hampshire Constabulary. He has managed the Constabulary’s IT Professional Development programme, including a comprehensive review of it and its associated benchmarked salary scheme.
Gillian Perry - click for presentation (as pdf - 837KB)
Gillian Perry manages a Global People Programme for the Information Services function within National Grid. National Grid is an international gas and electricity company. It is the largest utility in the UK and second largest in US with around 28,000 employees and almost 18 million customers. The company’s growth strategy has meant a significant amount of change for people in National Grid and in particular for staff in IS: systems consolidations have followed mergers and acquisitions, along with changes through outsourcing and in-sourcing.
Dr Jon Holt - click for presentation (as pdf - 251KB)
Dr Jon Holt is the founder director of Brass Bullet Ltd, a systems engineering training and consultancy company. He is a Fellow of both the IET and the BCS and is recognised as a thought leader in the world of systems modelling. He is also the author of several books on systems modelling and process modelling and is an international award-winning public speaker.
James Ailward - click for presentation (as pdf - 133KB)
James is ICT Group Manager responsible for Strategy & Commissioning in Dorset County Council. As manager of Dorset’s implementation of the Aspire programme, James leads the way in what is likely to become a significant feature of local government skills management.
Malcolm Wells - click for presentation (as pdf - 965KB)
Malcolm joined Shell as a Graduate in IT in 1971 and has worked in a wide range of roles in IT for Shell over the years. Starting in Applications Programming on IBM Mainframes, he also worked in Computer Operations Technical & User Support, Systems Programming and Support, IT Project Management, IT Consultancy and IT Architecture. He worked in IT Management as head of Shell’s European IT Consultancy and Project Management Group, and most recently as the Global IT Skill Pool Manager for Shell’s IT Infrastructure staff across the world.
Roy Shepherd - click for presentation (as pdf - 85KB)
Originally working for BT, Roy has worked for the BCS for over 14 years in development, support, training and consultancy on SFIAplus (previously the ISM) and related products and services. Roy is responsible for updating the BCS SFIAplus detailed framework from V3 to V4, keeping it in line with SFIA. Roy will highlight the impact and use of SFIAplus V3 and compare and highlight the benefits to be delivered by implementation of the completely revised and rejuvenated SFIAplus V4.
