UK IT Industry Awards 2010: and the winners are. . .

The great and the good of the IT sector were celebrated at a lavish ceremony for the Computing/BCS UK IT Industry Awards

The great and the good of the IT sector were celebrated at a lavish prize-giving ceremony in London last night, where more than 1,200 guests raised their glasses to this year's winners of the Computing/BCS UK IT Industry Awards.

Outstanding contribution to UK IT

Geoff McMullen
Geoff started in IT more than 45 years ago developing and supporting technical software in the manufacturing industry, with NCR, CEIR, Babcock & Wilcox and Univac, before joining Royal Dutch Shell in 1974. Geoff culminated this long and distinguished career as general manager of Information and Computing Services for Shell UK.

But Geoff's voluntary work makes him stand out from the crowd. He actively supports charities such as AbilityNet, which helps people with disabilities improve their quality of life through the use of IT. Geoff has been a tremendous supporter of BCS's education and certification programmes through many years. He also spent five years as a non-executive director of the ECDL Foundation.

Business project of the year
Winner: BT Openreach, network records generation for northern Home Counties.
Rolling out superfast broadband will be critical to the UK's future. BT Openreach's network records generation project will play a critical part in planning this and other services. This was a highly innovative, exceptionally well managed project with very clear objectives and benefits.
Medallists: State Street Corporation, 21st Century IT Infrastructure; The Crown Estate, Marine Resource System (MaRS).

Small business project of the year
Winner: CreditPal, Future Route.
A highly innovative application of a sophisticated programming tool for the benefit of those seeking credit and for credit providers, and ultimately UK plc too.
Medallists: Carrenza/Tribal DDB, Monopoly City Streets; KnowledgePoint, Revolut ionising variable data print in the education sector.

Public sector project of the year
Winner: St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Shift to online patient records.
This is superb example of a change programme led by the CEO and supported by the board. There was a clear vision of what the project was trying to achieve.
Medallists: Medical Data Solutions and Services, IT strategy for management of the UK NHS Haemophilia Service; Hertfordshire County Council, Online free school meals project.

Community project of the year
Winner: NYnet Ltd/North Yorkshire County Council, Community broadband project.
An enabling project to provide broadband access to remote community areas to help achieve sustainability for the people concerned.
Medallists: Virgin Money, Ixxus & Arrk Group, Virgin Money Giving; MSM Software, Casework Management with Military Precision.

Environmental project of the year
Winner: MSM Software, Devon County Council Car Park Management System
Brave and innovative project, led by the CEO of a local authority, with immediate benefits from day one, with potential for others to follow.
Medallists: Isotrak Ltd/Robert Wiseman Dairies, Active Transport Management System implementation; Microsoft Services, Eye on Earth.

IT project team of the year
Winner: Vangent with Southwark Council, Radical Website Improvement Programme.
The project was an agile development to renew and replace the old web site in the London Borough of Southwark. This radical web site improvement delivers huge benefits to both council and community users.
Medallists: Post Office, Application, Enrolment and Identification; The Forensic Science Service, FSS DNA Insight.

IT department of the year

Winner: Yorkshire Water Services.
This IT department created an innovative and customer-focused set of IT services and applications that moved Yorkshire Water from poorest performer to best in c lass.
Medallists: Nimbus Partners; Petroleum Geo-Services.

Small IT department of the year
Winner: Newport City Homes.
The project included the setting up of a complete new technology infrastructure in a new building for a new organisation with a new IT team. The judges said it is making a real impact to the local economy and engaging with individuals who are not normally IT literate. A solution that could be replicated elsewhere.
Medallists: Oval; Freeth Cartwright LLP.

Digital inclusion achievement of the year
In association with Race Online 2012
Winner: Finerday.com Mobilelite, Finerday.com - safe, accessible, inter-generational communications.
Finerday.com is a free and accessible communications platform. It encourages people of all ages to share messages, photos, memories and web links. The judges said the simplest projects are always the best.
Medallists: ITV, Signed Stories; Westminster City Council, Westminster Digital Champion.

IT supplier of the year
Winner: McKesson UK.
McKesson is a healthcare technology solutions and services provider to the NHS. The judges said McKesson has made a major commitment to the NHS and its products and services have made a real difference to healthcare in the UK.
Medallists: FDM Group; Zeus Technology

Small IT supplier of the year
Winner: SICL
SICL is a network solutions and services provider. The judges commended the strength of the people investment, culture and corporate community responsibility. Commercially savvy and highly successful.
Medallists: Kell Systems; Portaltech

IT employer of the year
Winner: UKFast.Net.
UKFast is an internet hosting provider. The judges said the UKFast approach to training,
development and innovation has enabled it to deliver outstanding performance to clients while maintaining dedicated, motivated and talented staff.
Medallists: Box UK; IBM UK.

CIO of the year

Winner: Darrell Stein, Marks & Spencer.
Darrell won for the scale of his achievement, for the breadth of his skills as a CIO and for the sustainability of projects and initiatives.
Medallists: Richard Cross, ITV; Adam Gerrard, Avis Europe.

IT manager of the year
Winner: Mike Gale, National Grid
A consummate professional whose integrity allows the needs of business leaders across the organisation to be brought together with a common IT enterprise architecture.
Medallists: Jenny Nicholson, Lincolnshire Police; Guy Adams, iDirect.

Young IT professional of the year
Winner: Meri Williams, Procter & Gamble.
An outstanding individual who has made major contributions within her company and to the wider IT community.
Medallists: Dominic Green, Microsoft; Adam Thompson, IBM UK

Developer of the year
Winner: Charles Wilkinson, Portal Technology Systems.
The judges found Charles to be a highly professional developer with skills and exceptional achievements.
Medallists: Sandy Gibb, Whitbread; Darren Jefford, Microsoft.

IT service and support professional of the year
Winner: Rob Hobart, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP.
Rob demonstrated an incredible level of business understanding combined with a passion for technology and the overall IT profession.
Medallists: Cheryl Reed, Whitbread; Margaret Long, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP.

Business analyst of the year
Winner: Marie Atallah, Allianz Insurance.
The judges said: "We would love to bottle and clone Marie's professionalism and enthusiasm. Her ability to make a dull subject interesting makes her stand out."
Medallists: Sharron Holness, Post Office; Karen Rowe, NFU Mutual.

R&D achievement of the year
Winner: Portaltech, QuickLive Platform.
The judges were impressed by customer focused use of e-commerce technology to transform business execution and growth.
Medallists: BT Research & Technology, Cloud Service Broker; BT Research & Technology, VHE-Cloud:Secure Virtual Hosting in the Cloud.

Security innovation of the year
Winner: Imprivata, Secure Walk-Away.
A innovative and flexible hands-free system to protect unattended work stations from unauthorised access in a shared work station environment. An excellent 18 months of user trials in environments with sensitive data, ensuring no disruption of work flow.
Medallists: Swivel Secure; Webroot.

Business IT innovation of the year
Winner: Service-now.com.
The judges commended the company's strong growth story and powerful business model and how continual development is enjoyed by all clients and enables customers to innovate and be more efficient.
Medallists: NetSupport; Magus; SANpulse Technologies

Consumer IT innovation of the year
Winner: ISO, Personal injury claims
processing.
The judges said this was an impressive innovation that ensures all parties gain from the system, including solicitors, clients and the insurance companies.
Medallists: E Ink; HulloMail.

Infrastructure innovation of the year
Winner: Neverfail Group, Neverfail 6.2.
A unique combination of high availability features, including network recovery.
Medallists: Centrix Software; VMware.

UK IT achievement of the year
Winner: Grid-Tools, Test Data Management Troubles: The Data Dilemma
Grid-Tools demonstrated an innovative and rigorous approach to test data g eneration for large, complex systems developed for a wide range of commercial, scientific and public sector application.
Medallists: Amicus ITS, Amicus ITS Channel Partner Programme; Cisco, Web Intelligence Reporting.