David Tomkins

Experience

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  British Army

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2012

  Team Leader

  Responsible for a team of military engineers and tradesmen. Offering considered and pragmatic advice to upper management whilst overseeing teams of tradesmen. Knowledge gained in project management, Health & Safety supervision and enforcing conformance to applicable codes and standards.

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  Openreach

  Jan 2012 - now

  Thinking analytically about project delivery and assisting team managers to drive improvements at all levels.Utilising reports and excellent presentation skills to deliver change stories that provide clear, honest, customer focused solutions. Understand delivery trends, including workstack dwell times and success rates against ECD’s. Challenging the partners on delivery and working with them to resolve areas of concern across multiple work streams. Managing a team of 24 telecommunications engineers within Business and Corporate Delivery. Passionately building a resilient engineering team through performance management. Able to identify business opportunities and deliver an end to end product for our customers and stakeholders within service level agreements. Providing fibre optic cables within the UK's telecommunications infrastructure. Working on behalf of service providers to install, support and maintain the wiring and connections that link homes and businesses to the infrastructure of the UK communications industry.Building and maintaining a good rapport with End User’s.Assessing issues with telecoms equipment and rectifying on behalf of service providers.Ensuring works are completed to highest standards and applying necessary revenue charges.

  • Area Manager

    Jan 2019 - now

  • Operational Performance Professional

    Mar 2019 - Jan 2019

  • Partner Performance Manager

    Jan 2018 - Mar 2019

  • Operations Manager

    Jan 2016 - Jan 2018

  • Cabling Engineer

    Jan 2014 - Jan 2016

  • Telecommunications Engineer

    Jan 2012 - Jan 2014
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  Basingstoke College of Technology

  Mar 2012 - Jan 2012

  Site Team Coordinator

  Reporting to the Estates and Facilities Manager, I was responsible for appropriately directing the College Maintenance Staff to ensure the resolution of Planned and Reactive Maintenance Works. This role included the supervision of external contractors on site.