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IT Skills at the Frontiers

Title:	IT Skills at the Frontiers
Topic/Stream:	People
Presentation Synopsis:	The presentation describes how UKBA have gone about Professionalising their IT Department over the last 2 years. This has started with an organisational restructuring and lots of recruitment activity, mainly to reduce the dependency on Consultants and Contractors. Like many Government departments the Border Agency didn’t really have a professional home for people that specalise in delivering IT Programmes and Projects. We have created one, that functions much like an internal consultancy. It provides the programmes with business analysts, technical architects, project managers, and PMO. Whilst they undertake a variety of assignments their personal and professional development is kept in the new department. This presentation describes how we set that up, how we have made the recruitment work and how we have used SFIA and ITIL.
Speaker/Organisation:	Tim Baniek
Organisation:	UK Border Agency
Session Date:	Monday, 08 November at 11:00
Speaker Biography:	Following an early career in technology Ben worked as a consultant (Andersen, Deloitte) focusing on improving IT Departments and their delivery to the business. He has developed IT functions in many organisations and has used SFIA in doing so since 2001. For the past 2 years Ben has been the IT Director for UKBA which has 25000 IT users and is currently running one of the biggest IT portfolio’s in Government including eBorders, Immigration Case Working and National Identity Assurance Service.

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