1. CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: Graham Wray
ADDRESS: 9 Abbey Court
Byland Ave
York
YO31 9AQ
MOBILE TEL: +44 7702 976831
DATE OF BIRTH: 31/07/1969
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
‘O’ Level - Arithmetic, English, Chemistry and Geography
DRIVING LICENCES
Full Light Vehicles license and HGV
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
June 2011 B.T Frames Accreditation
Dec 2010 Street Works Qualification (Signing, Lighting and Guarding)
Nov 2010 IOSH Passport
Nov 2008 Scottish & Southern Power Safety Course
Aug 2007 Construction Skills Certification
Jan 2007 Total Access Ltd Rooftop Safety
May 2006 Huawei SDH and DWDM Partners Training Course
June 2001 Sycamore Networks SN 16000 Training Course
April 2001 Sycamore Networks SN 8000 Training Course
June 2000 Nortel Networks TN16X Operation and Maintenance
May 2000 Ericsson AXD 4/1-2 Management Course
July 1997 Saudi Aramco Instructor Certificate
December 1993 Fibre Optics City & Guilds 3466
CAREER HISTORY
NOVEMBER 2010-PRESENT
Employed as a Customer Services Engineer, by BT Openreach. My core duties are to facilitate
installations into customer premises, and to rectify faults within the network. I am currently allocated to
the overhead team, working on the Openreach network
DECEMBER 2008 – APRIL 2010
Transferred from FLM to Enterprise, within Traxe Global Services. Employed as a commissioning
engineer on SLTE equipment throughout the whole of Asia. Commissioning and integrating equipment
(Often on live networks)

2. JANUARY 2006 – DECEMBER 2008
Employed as a Senior Customer Support engineer, for Traxe Global Services. I am currently employed
on the First Line Maintenance contract covering the North of England, for companies such as A.O.L,
Sky Broadband and Imtech.
JULY 2005 – DECEMBER 2005
Working as a Fibre Optic Splicer and Tester at A.W.E Aldermaston for Honeywell. Whilst in this
position I gained my security clearance for M.O.D sites.
MAY 2004 - APRIL 2005
Working for Fujitsu Telecoms installing ASDH, ADSL and HDSL systems for B.T. My duties involve
installation of the rack and shelf, installing the power to the rack, installation of the cards into the shelf
and then commissioning the shelf and then to integrate the system into the B.T network. Other duties
involve stripping, prepping and splicing the associated fibre optic cables, installing and terminating the
3002 series coaxial cables and installing and terminating the 100 pair copper cables where necessary. I
was released, along with over 100 other contractors, in April due to lack of work from B.T.
AUGUST 2002 - MAY 2004
Employed by D.J.M Communications. I was required to work with different vendor equipment i.e.
Krone and Avaya. DJM Communications secured a large contract for Black Box Network Services
during which we installed Avaya products for Orange Mobile Communications.
Duties
∗ Splicing and termination of fibre optic cables
∗ Testing and commissioning fibre optic cables
∗ Termination of CAT 5 & CAT 6 cables
∗ Testing and commissioning CAT 5 & CAT 6 cables
MARCH 2001 - FEBRUARY 2002
Employed as ‘SDH Field Support Engineer’ by Storm Telecommunications Limited. Based in the
Netherlands, but working throughout Europe. Working a 5-day week maintaining, and upgrading the
PAN European Network. Whilst I was employed by Storm I attended the Sycamore SN 8000 &
SN16000 courses in Boston U.S.A. The reason for leaving Storm was that the company went into
liquidation
Duties
∗ Connecting new voice customers and vendors
∗ To maintain Alcatel S12 switch networks
∗ Installation and maintenance of Sycamore equipment SN 8000, SN16000, SDN etc
∗ To maintain the optical networks
∗ To maintain ATM/IP networks
∗ To manage third party suppliers

3. ∗ Installation and maintenance of SDH equipment
∗ Installation and maintenance of Riverstone IP equipment and network
JANUARY 2000 - FEBRUARY 2001
Employed in the INOCC as a ‘Senior Surveillance Technician’ for WorldCom in the Netherlands, in a
three-man shift. Employed to monitor the Pan-European network throughout Europe using Alcatel &
Ericsson DACCS, Nortel INM and Alcatel SH & RM equipment.
Duties
∗ Network alarm surveillance
∗ Fault priority attribution
∗ Opening trouble tickets from network alarms or external fault reports
* Generating ‘Flash Reports’
∗ Generating major incident reports
∗ Initial fault diagnostics
∗ Co-ordinating field engineers
OCTOBER 1998 - DECEMBER 1999
Employed as a ‘Fibre Optic Engineer’ for C.T.I Ltd who were contracted to Cable and Wireless to
assist in the set up of fibre optic SDH rings throughout the South of England.
Duties
∗ Splicing of fibre optic cables
∗ Testing of the fibre network using O.T.D.R and I.L.M equipment
∗ Fault finding and fault rectification
∗ Supervising outside contractors, to ensure that standards were met
∗ Instruction of outside contractors to Cable and Wireless standards
AUGUST 1997 - OCTOBER 1998
Employed as an ’Outside Plant Engineer’ for Eurobell Holdings Ltd. The position involved the
supervision of outside contractors and advising them on the splicing and testing of the fibre optic
cables, the termination and testing of co-axial and multi core copper cables. Once the contractors’
work had been completed and had been accepted my duties were maintain and upgrade the fibre
network.
MAY 1997 - AUGUST 1997
Employed as an ‘Advanced Job Skills Instructor’ for Saudi Aramco, in the Middle East. My duties
were to design a course and then teach the employees advanced skills in fibre optic and copper
cable techniques. I also did contractor certification to ensure that the contactors were up to the
strict standards of Saudi Aramco.
JANUARY 1996 - MAY 1997
Employed as a ‘fibre Optics Engineer’ as a contractor by COGENT (Sub-division of Nortel)

4. planning and installing a fibre optic network into various R.A.F sites throughout Europe (This was
part of the LDCN contract). Working to tight schedules and often working in secure areas. My last
position in this contract was as Senior Fibre Engineer on the largest R.A.F site in Europe. I was in
charge of a team of approximately 12 experienced fibre engineers. I was also required to terminate
and test CAT 5 installations on various R.A.F sites as part of my duties.
JULY 1995 - DECEMBER 1995
Employed as a ‘Fibre Optics Engineer’ for Comitec Ltd, installing and maintaining a Cable T.V
network in the areas of Leeds, Sheffield and Wakefield.
Duties
∗ Splicing and monitoring of trunk joints
∗ Splicing, testing and provisioning of O.T.D.R traces for hub areas
∗ Quality Control
∗ Terminating and testing of multi core copper cables and co-axial cables
∗ Preparing and splicing of splice trays and fibre optic tail ends within the Head End
SEPTEMBER 1986 - APRIL 1994
H.M FORCES (ARMY) ROYAL SIGNALS
JULY 1992 - APRIL 1994 (EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND)
∗ Installation and maintenance of the Army telephone systems, throughout Scotland, to B.T
standards.
∗ Installation and operation of P.A systems, throughout Scotland, for high profile Army and
R.A.F presentations. Working alone as well as supervising skilled personnel in time sensitive
situations.
∗ Installation and maintenance of the sound system and emergency telephone system for the
Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
OCTOBER 1998 - JUNE 1992 (CYPRUS)
∗ Working as an individual and as part of a team, repairing, maintaining and installing
communication systems into houses, large buildings and security enhanced areas.
∗ Responsibility (As Network Controller) for I.D.F & M.D.F maintenance and testing
∗ Liaison with the Cypriot Telephone Authority and with local Cypriot companies
JUNE - DECEMBER 1990 & JUNE - DECEMBER 1991
Served as a ‘Peacekeeper’ with the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Nicosia, Cyprus.
SEPTEMBER 1986 - OCTOBER 1991
Basic soldier and trade training.