More than 600 UK IT industry leaders gathered at London’s Park
Lane Hilton last week to celebrate with the winners of the British
Computer Society’s IT Professional Awards, widely regarded as the
Oscars of the UK IT industry.
BCS president John Ivinson said the awards recognised the
ingenuity and managerial skills that enabled IT to increase
business efficiency and improve customer service. The winners
were:
Lifetime achievement award: John Leighfield
Public sector and not-for-profit organisations:
i-Bio UK, Department of Trade & Industry
Financial and related services: IT integration,
Royal Bank of Scotland
Commerce and industry: Profit Protection.Net,
Marks & Spencer
Applications: Prophet, Speed-trap
Services: Bacstel IP, Bacs
Systems: Pixology Iriss, Pixology
Social contribution: London congestion charging
scheme, Capita Business Services
Young practitioner of the year: James Bailey,
Eclipse Internet
IT trainer of the year: Jit Parmar, Informatics
Group
IT consultant of the year: Gill Hunt, Hunt
Lancaster
Marval IT service manager of the year: Anne
Davies, Zurich Financial Services
Quality manager of the year: Nick Mundy, Zurich
Financial Services
Business analyst of the year: Mark Jessop,
McDonalds Restaurants
IT developer of the year – applications: James
Heydon, Zurich Financial Services
IT developer of the year – infrastructure: Mark
Orford, Liverpool Direct
IT director of the year: John White, Royal Bank
of Scotland
The BCS business achievement award: IT
integration, Royal Bank of Scotland
The BCS technology award: Prophet,
speed-trap.