IT Leadership Program : Nine-month rotations

Invaluable on-the-job experience through three nine-month rotations

• The Information Technology Leadership Program provides you with valuable exposure to the broad range of UTC businesses and to a cross section of IT skills, disciplines, and functions. You will spend twenty-seven months working in three different UTC businesses, including UTC Corporate headquarters. You will work in three major functional areas, including: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Infrastructure, IT Security and e-Business, to name a few. Your specific assignments will be based on your career interests and other factors. Whatever your specific assignments and rotations, the total ITLP experience will provide you with a solid foundation to launch or advance your UTC career. ITLP graduates are highly sought after in large part because of the diverse experience this program provides.

The ITLP program consists of three nine-month rotations within UTC's participating business units. At each rotation an associate may be exposed to a different IT tower. These towers include:

• Infrastructure
• Architecture
• Telecom
• E-business
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Security
• Application development
• IT audit

The nine-month timeframe is due to the project-oriented nature of the IT rotations. The goal of the ITLP is to accelerate associate experience and development in 27 months.

Associates will primarily be assigned a combination of project-specific tasks during their rotations. These tasks may include:

• Project management/planning
• Resource management
• Customer/supplier relationship management
• Requirements gathering and business analysis
• Process design or re-engineering
• Lead implementation or testing efforts
• Data derivation
• Web development and architecture
• Contract management

Performance of these tasks in high-pressure environments will foster rapid development in personal and professional skills. The environments, culture, technology and business practices vary across business units, and Associates will encounter new and exciting challenges in each of the three rotations.

Skills to be gained include:

• Leadership
• Project management
• Communication
• Technical
• Analytical
• Business acumen
• Customer and supplier relationship