Mike Sivils Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Richardson, Tx, Us

• Responsible for testing and directing the efforts of the System Test department. Performing interoperability, product quality (PQ), Environmental, and Conformance to Design testing on Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) systems.• Lead engineer involved in the implementation and testing of RF-RETURN over GPON. Providing cable TV set-top box communication over GPON links involving both Scientific Atlanta and Motorola technologies / protocols. • Provided on-site support on Field… Show more • Responsible for testing and directing the efforts of the System Test department. Performing interoperability, product quality (PQ), Environmental, and Conformance to Design testing on Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) systems.• Lead engineer involved in the implementation and testing of RF-RETURN over GPON. Providing cable TV set-top box communication over GPON links involving both Scientific Atlanta and Motorola technologies / protocols. • Provided on-site support on Field Trial and First Office Application (FOA) for new products and new software releases.• Implemented and maintained a fault reporting system for the company based off of Linux Bugzilla.• Responsible for the maintenance and addition of new features to automated factory test fixtures using National Interments TestStand 3.1, and Labveiw 7.1.• Designed and implemented a “fixture free” hardware test stations, significantly decreasing cost and increasing throughput of testing GPON ONUs. • Constructed and maintained a complete LAB network including Cisco switches and Juniper edge routers• Involved in mechanical design and manufacturing of GPON products Show less

Lake Mary Florida

• Served as individual contributor, team leader and manager for various projects and groups.• Involved in the testing on Passive Optical Network (PON) systems.• Involved in testing and directing the efforts of the System Test department, responsible for products ranging from DSLAM equipment to CLASS 5 digital offices. I• Worked on the testing of a Next Generation Digital Loop Carrier that provides support for ATM, ADSL and POTS interfaces within a single unit.• Responsible for… Show more • Served as individual contributor, team leader and manager for various projects and groups.• Involved in the testing on Passive Optical Network (PON) systems.• Involved in testing and directing the efforts of the System Test department, responsible for products ranging from DSLAM equipment to CLASS 5 digital offices. I• Worked on the testing of a Next Generation Digital Loop Carrier that provides support for ATM, ADSL and POTS interfaces within a single unit.• Responsible for directing the efforts of LAB and NETWORK support personnel.• Responsible for the generation, execution and tracking of System level tests. Experience using several different Test Management systems, including Mercury Interactive’s Test Director.• Designed and implemented a script driven automated SNMP testing engine (SNMPTEST). This tool was responsible for automating several thousand on-line regression tests being performed on a xDSL DSLAM. This resulted in a major reduction of effort and time required to perform regression testing• Designed and implemented a ‘protocol sniffer’ for SNMP messages (SNIFFER). The output of this tool is scripts used for both Off-line simulation and automation of On-line regression testing.• Designed and implemented the Automated Shuffle Validation Tool (ASVT) to automate the testing of the software upgrade process of a digital class 5 switch. This project was responsible for reducing the testing of a software upgrade from weeks to minutes; this allowed the testing of many different databases substantially improving the quality of the upgrade process. Show less

San Angelo, Texas

• Provided 7 days round the clock support for 100+ digital central offices• Provided over the phone troubleshooting and repair down to the Printed Wiring Board Assembly (PWBA) .• Provided On-site emergency service restoral , troubleshooting and repair down to the discrete component level. • Designed and created a tool to provide Automatic Message Accounting (LSSGR AMA format) ticket verification. This project was responsible for reducing the time required to manually verify AMA… Show more • Provided 7 days round the clock support for 100+ digital central offices• Provided over the phone troubleshooting and repair down to the Printed Wiring Board Assembly (PWBA) .• Provided On-site emergency service restoral , troubleshooting and repair down to the discrete component level. • Designed and created a tool to provide Automatic Message Accounting (LSSGR AMA format) ticket verification. This project was responsible for reducing the time required to manually verify AMA billing after system software upgrades.• Heavily involved with the installation of Equal Access within GTE’s network of Digital Central Offices (DCO). Developed standards for the implementation of the Equal Access trunking and routing. Show less

Kansas City, Kansas Area

• Provided all facets of support on Stromberg Carlson DCO ranging from the actual installation to the working with the customer on “turn-up” and acceptance testing.• Provided on-site troubleshooting and repair