David Livingston

 

Objective:

Seeking a position in Engineering, Project or Product management; where my skills may best serve my employer.

Experience:

I have an extensive background in the telephone industry with over 30 years of experience in all phases Telephone industry in service providing, product support, product development and manufacturing.

 

Skills:

 

The following is an overview of my areas of job knowledge:

 

·         Copper and Fiber plant design and construction

o        Buried

o        Aerial

o        Underground

o        Conduit design and construction

o        CEV’s, Electronics Cabinets, Huts

o        URD’S

o        MDU’s

o        Central Office

o        • Electronics design, deployment and construction

§         Fiber Multiplexers

§         WDM-DWDM SONET

§         DSL

§         NGDLC – DLC - SLC

§         T1

§         VOIP

·  Support programs used

 

o          TIRKS LFACS LFAS WFADO AOTX PMTOOL

o        LROPP FAP BSTCAD OPEDS OSPCM DPRO            

 

Work History:

 

·   11-2013 – OSP Engineer Innovative Telephone, US Virgin Islands

o   Fiber Planning and design

o   HFC deployment

 

·   4-2011-2013 –Lead Engineer to Windstream

o   Federal stimulus project

§   Place Fiber cable to new DSL sites

·                 Underground

·                 Aerial

·                 Buried

§   Design for placement of DSL equipment, power, and X-Connect.

§   Cutover of Carrier Service Areas

o   RUS pricing detail including all coding

 

·   5-2010 -2011 Contact Engineer for AT&T Decatur, Alabama

o        Fiber to the curb

o        VRAD video deployment over copper

o        GPON

o        All day to day design, aerial, buried and underground

·         4-2009 – 5-2010 Contact Hi-Cap Engineer for AT&T Charlotte, North Carolina

o        Network provisioning of T1’s and Higher

o        Working with all current AT&T systems.

§         DPRO                            FACS                            TIRKS

§         SAP Terminals for Cell sites             

             

·   6-2008 – 10-2008 Contract Engineer of site for Fairpoint VT

o        Network planning for broadband deployment

 

·   4-2008 – 6 2008Contract OSP Engineer on site for Frontier NY

o        High Cap design and DSL deployment

·   6-2007 – 4 2008-Contact OSP Contact Engineer on-premise for Verizon NY (Utica)

o   Engineer Turf

·            Providing design for service requirements

·            Hi Cap service Provisioning and design

·            DSL, T1, Fiber, Copper, Electronics

·            URD’S, MDU’S

 

·         2006- 2007 Self Employed

o Consultant to various companies of development of new telecommunications technology

 

·         2004-2006 Alidian Networks

o Director Product Management

·       Responsible for the development of a DWDM carrier class multiplexer.

 

·   2003-2004 Lucent

o   Director Customer Service (D Band)

·            Responsible for sales support team in the deployment and standardizing of new technology.

·         2000-2003 Yurie Systems

o Director Sales and Service

·       Managed the Bay Networks account until company was purchased by Lucent.

o Director Product Management

·       Responsible for product improvements to stay in compliance with carrier reliability.

·         1999-2000 Bay Networks, Billerica MA

o     Senior Product Manager

·                   Responsible for small fiber multiplexer development and the licensing of technology from Yurie Systems.

·         1997-1999 DSC, Boston MA

o        Director Customer Service

·               Support for the deployment of Lightspan NGDLC. One major project was the total cutover of Manchester Airport to fiber electronics from copper.

·         1995-1997 New England Telephone, Cambridge MA

o        Contact Planner

·               Long Range Outside Plant Planning for high growth area.

·               Responsible for a major wire center in a high growth area, primary deployments where fiber and NGDLC as well as conduit additions.

·               Design Hi-Cap services (T1, T3, OC-3, OC-12, OC-48)

·         1994-1995 Raynet, Boston MA

o        Director Installation Services

·               Responsible for the deployment of the first Fiber to the Curb system in New England.

·         1992-1994 Southern New England Telephone

o        Contract Senior Project OSP Engineer

·               Responsible for major plant improvement to remote towns using fiber remotes.

 ·         1987-1992 New England Telephone, Framingham MA

o        Contact Senior Project OSP Engineer

·               Responsible for major plant improvement for quality of service.

·               Contact LROPP and FAP Engineer

·               Responsible for developing and maintaining Long Range Plan for multiple Wire Centers.

·               Responsible for service improvement for the district.

·         1984-1987 Butler Telecommunications

o        Various Fiber design projects

§         Florida 

·         Design and construction of fiber plant.

§         Illinois 

·         Fiber design along rail road rights of way from Chicago to St. Louis.

§         Texas 

·         Chief project engineer for 540 miles of fiber and electronics design along the MKT rail road.

 

·         1982-1984 Volt Telcom

o        Director Installation services

§         Area director for installation of dialers for early equal access.

 

·         1980-1982 New Jersey Bell, Plainfield NJ

o        Contract Senor Project OSP engineer

§         Responsible for the plant requirements for the breakup of AT&T including the first fiber deployment in New Jersey Telephone.

·         1980-1981 Southern Bell

o        Contract Senor Project OSP Engineer

§         Had responsibility for Outside plant design in a growing area in Columbia. Managed the on time installation improvement project to meet 3 day target.

·         1977-1980 Norway Telephony Company, Norway South Carolina-

o        General Manager

§         Responsible for all phases of local telephone service including Central Office, Outside Plant, Tariff and billing for a rural community.

·         1971-1976 New York Telephone, Brooklyn NY

o        Cable Splicer

o        OSP Engineer

 

Other Skills:

 

Computer software: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Power Point, Visio, Auto Cad, Mirco Station, BST Cad and others.