1. Full Name Daniel Barber Sex Male
Nationality English Driving Licence Full (Clean)
Mobile 07795074728 Email dbarber@zafire.com
Address
Candidate Profile:
An experienced and adaptable sales executive, with a proven track record of success within a variety of
commercial and technical environments. A consistent high achiever I always aim to not only achieve but smash
my targets. I deal with a variety of levels from board down and have excellent new business and account
management experience.
Key Skills New Business Development Account Management
Relationship Builder Strong Self Starter
Organisational Skills Technical Sales
Current Position
2009-Date Zafire Ltd
Sales and Account Executive
Selling Service Management Software Solutions – the software covers all areas of the
service arena, from warranty repair, field repair, contracts, scheduling, complex
stock management, procurement, sales orders and accounts. The success of the
software streamlines business process and re-engineer business process to the
customers advantage, the product is a web based solution and exceptionally
scalable. The sales cycle is between 12 to 24 months on average, the software is sold
with development and consultancy, accompanied with the software is a complex and
detailed implementation methodology.
Selling to The SME market, companies range of from small businesses to large corporations,
B2B selling. There has been no segmentation geographically or market, I’ve been
selling to the whole of Europe, predominantly UK based. Throughout the duration of
my Sales career I’ve demonstrated to large numbers, directors, management,
foremen and field engineers, I have no problem in communicating to people on
different levels
Successes/Highlights Winning new business in different markets, managing accounts, rebuilding and
developing new relationships with several businesses in new sectors.
Previous Career
2004-2009 Zafire Ltd
Development and implementation consultant
Implementation, design, development and redevelopment of new and existing
systems, bespoke processes, using Unidata across various operating systems
(Windows, Solaris, Unix, and Linux).
Ongoing development and support of various sites of up to 500 users in various rolls,
customer facing analysis/implementation planning, full support from admin to
director level, configuration & testing both on site and off site. I have been heavily
involved with development/design of a Service Management And Repair Tracking
application which is a comprehensive web-enabled system, including PDA
connectivity.
The work involved has been across many different business streams covering service
management, asset tracking, asset system management and field service. All this
working closely with companies dealing directly with Vodafone, Nokia, Apple, Sony,
Kingston Communications, Panasonic, IBM.

2. Previous Career
1994 – 2004 Gould Alloys Ltd
Analyst Programmer
Sales, Purchasing, Quality Control and running the IT Department.
Qualifications/Training
2010 – 2011 Institute of Sales and Marketing Management
ISMM, Sales and Marketing Management
1998 – 2000 Sheffield Hallam University
HNC Business information technology
Business Computing Technology (Distinction)
Business Solutions on the WWW (Distinction).
Systems Analysis & Communications (Merit)
Professional & Quantitative Skills (Merit)
Application Programming I (Merit)
Systems Design & Implementation (Pass)
Application Programming II (Pass).
Business Data Analysis (Pass)
Interest & Skills:
Marketing, Sales, new technologies, software development, organizational development, international travel,
gourmet cooking, golf, football, professional networking, social networking.
I am a very active person out of work; I play golf as much as possible although no official handicap, Football
takes up a major portion of my spare time as I play midweek and occasional weekends. I’m learning to play the
guitar and also enjoy cooking, apart from all that I do like to try and keep as fit as possible with the limited
amount of time I have left.
When I am not working or training I like to keep a firm eye on the latest developments in Information
Technology and enjoy reading about advancements in all areas of technology, especially internet & computer
hardware/software.
From personal experience and self-tuition I have developed considerable experience, skills and overall
confidence while working on a variety of systems across various platforms. Windows 3.11, 95, 98, ME, 2000 &
XP. Windows 7, MS Office 2007 including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, Outlook, Alchemy Build
and Search, Chrome, Mozilla, Netscape & Internet Explorer, Visual Basic, HTML, Dreamweaver, Flash, PICK
BASIC, ACCESS, MSDOS, software tools including FTP software and SFTP, telnet and samba. Also a keen and
quick learner of new applications and languages.
Personal Statement
As a person I am a very competitive character and thrive on being involved with successful teams, and strive for
excellence in everything I do. I am a highly motivated, self-disciplined, reliable and hard working individual, and
am willing to work hard in order to attain new skills, knowledge and qualifications for career advancement. I
work well under my own initiative and enjoy working as a part of a team and like to accept challenges.
References
References are available upon request.