Mickey has recently formed a project management and consulting practice after leaving the Buggs Island Telephone Cooperative.Mickey L. Sims became the General Manager of Buggs Island Telephone Cooperative in Bracey, Virginia on March 15, 2004. In late April, 2010, BIT was awarded a multi-million dollar ($18.9 million dollars) federal stimulus grant to expand their wireless broadband and voice network into the FCC licensed service area.Sims previously managed from 1989-99 the Poka Lambro Telephone Cooperative, Inc. in Tahoka, Texas. As General Manager of the Poka-Lambro, Sims was on the leading edge of deploying wireless services early. Mickey L. Sims was one of the co-founders of CoServ Communications. Mickey is the youngest person to have served as President of the Washington, D.C.-based National Telecommunications Cooperative Association. He was the very first President and one of the co-founders of the Rural Cellular Association (1992-94). Also Sims served on the Board Member and as President, of the Rural Telephone Finance Cooperative. Sims is a past President of the Virginia Telecommunications Industry Association, MainStreet Communications, LLC, Plains Bell Federal Credit Union, and Alamo Cellular, Inc. He is a director of the Southside Virginia Community College Foundation. He is a director of the Carolina-Virginias Telephone Membership Association and Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell appointed Sims to the Virginia Wireless E-911 Commission. Sims has served on the United States Telephone Association’s Small Company Committee and is a former director of the Mid-Maine Telephone Company (Bangor, Maine), National Telcom Insurance Corporation (Burlington, Vermont), Texas Telephone Association, Forte Communications, and the Texas Agricultural Cooperative Council.