David Edwards

00 Xxxxxxx Road, Xxxxxxx, XX00 0XX

Telephone: 0000 000000 – Mobile: 07700 000000 – Email:
xxxxxxxx@aol.com

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
The profile should provide a
An accomplished Chartered Engineer with a well developed background in the succinct summary of who
telecommunications industry. Extensive experience in sales, account you are and what you do,
management, project management, process analysis and enhancement with a noting some of the main
proven ability to combine technical knowledge and understanding with a strong areas of specialisation.
commercial awareness.

CAREER HISTORY
Present job descriptions in
June 2005 – Present bullet points to make them
Technical Director easier to read, but don’t
TELECOMS SERVICES include too much technical
detail.
• Established and set up a new business venture, a telecommunications
services reseller and consultancy
• Providing inbound and outbound voice services for business and residential
applications and providing web site development and telecommunications
consultancy services
• Also negotiated an agency agreement to sell VoIP PABX systems
• Designed, implemented and developed the company website including an
on-line customer area and developed the call billing application
• Overseeing the steady growth of the business, sourcing new clients

July 2000 – June 2005

Systems Manager
CABLE & WIRELESS

• Working within the Integrated Voice Platforms, UK and Europe Access

Planning for this global telecommunications company
• Successfully identified and removed £3.6m pa of unnecessary out-payment
costs and implemented system enhancements to further reduce exposure
and prevent recurrence of unnecessary costs
• Overseeing the identification and implementation of further ongoing
costs/benefits, and compiled a business plan which progressed through
corporate governance processes and received expenditure approval
• Designed and implemented a Microsoft Access database application to
integrate three separate and highly manually intensive processes
• Successfully achieved a notable improvement in communication between a
number of business process areas ensuring clarity of purpose across the
organisation
• Overall responsibility for existing and new systems and processes covering
planning and service delivery of UK voice network Interconnect and internal
network capacity
• Virtual team leader for the cross-functional and cross company teams to set
up the management interfaces for a major groundbreaking outsource of
planning staff and network components to Nortel Networks

August 1994 – June 2000

Account Manager
CABLE & WIRELESS

• Working within the International & Partner Services of this global

telecommunications organisation
• Successfully developed a new and innovative ISP account from zero to a
£12.5m account in twelve months
• Overseeing the retention, re-signing and growth of the company’s flagship
outsource contract at the point when the account was about to be lost
• Successfully achieved a sales target of up to £25m pa including key major
ISP accounts
• Achieved a number of multi-million £ IRU (large international bandwidth)
sales to tier 1 ISPs Quote individual projects
• Responsible for primary UK Account Management for European ISP's and achievements within the
based on the C&W IP legacy access network and also the ISP's and major job descriptions.
European customers on the ex Mercury Communications International
network

CAREER HISTORY

September 1988 – August 1994

System Design Engineer
GEC-PLESSEY TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED

• Working within the International & Partner Services of this global

telecommunications organisation
• Successfully developed a new and innovative ISP account from zero to a
£12.5m account in twelve months
• Overseeing the retention, re-signing and growth of the company’s flagship
outsource contract at the point when the account was about to be lost
• Successfully achieved a sales target of up to £25m pa including key major
ISP accounts
• Achieved a number of multi-million £ IRU (large international bandwidth)
sales to tier 1 ISPs

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

For a recent graduate, the
September 1984 – June 1988 education section would
University of Bristol appear BEFORE the career
history, and may include
B Eng (Honours) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (2:1) more details, for example
modules taken or academic
projects completed.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
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• Chartered Engineer memberships of
• Member of the Institute of Engineering Technology professional bodies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY

Summarise technical skills
• Web development: HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript in a separate section,
• Databases: Microsoft Access, MySQL, PHP categorising different types
• Software: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher) of skills used.
• Design: Macromedia DreamWeaver, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop
• Windows 2003 Server, Windows Active Directory, DNS, IIS, Apache,
Sharepoint services, SMTP Server and SMTP relay, RAS/VPN, IP PBX/IVR

INTERESTS

In my spare time I enjoy sports, especially football, cricket and rugby. I like
outdoor activities such as hiking, camping and rock climbing. I have an interest
in computers and modern technology. I also take part in various fundraising
events to raise money for charity.

REFERENCES

Available on request.