David Toombs

Personal Profile

I am a Telecommunications professional with 30 years experience in the Telecommunications business. I have worked exclusively for "blue chip" Telco's. I am experienced in voice, data and IT networks and associated products. I have held positions in operations & maintenance, business development, product development, project management, product management and general management.

Product Development:

My Product Development experience include the successful development and launch of the following products:

I have also managed many products, post launch.

Project Management:

In addition to the above Product Development experience using the PRINCE2 methodology. I have managed many other complex projects ranging from the installation and commissioning of C&W's Thameside Earth station, DMS250 digital public telephony switches, digital trunk and subscriber microwave radio systems (including point to point and point to multipoint TDMA), metropolitan and trunk fibre and radio distribution nodes, to nationwide radio paging networks etc. See my CV for further details.

Hobbies & Interests:

My hobbies and interests include Amateur Radio, computing and all forms of  messaging. My current callsign is G8FXM (ex GW8FXM ) I have an interest in amateur TV broadcasting and AX25 data transmission and previously held the TV only callsign of (GW6AJR/T).