Judy Trest, Principal Consultant
RECENTLY:
Recent projects include design and deployment of a 6,000 port voice bridge to support a Mobile application for SPRINT/NEXTEL. This platform is used to deliver NASCAR audio programming from inside the race cars to mobile subscribers. A similar project will support 100,000 ports for delivery of interactive entertainment media to mobile subscribers.
Click Calling, Confrence Bridge and other enhanced service telephony application continues to be in high demand with several projects ongoing. In addition to new web sites activities, Judy and I are continuing to support a security data collection application with high volume calling with touch tone data capture.
Previous projects were single site installation via satellite to exotic destinations. One destination included design support for the satellite and ground station wireless network to support the Base Camp for climbers on Mount Everest in the Kingdom of Nepal! Because of the efforts of many individual and corporate contributions, that inital activity has evolved to provide Internet connectivity to several remote villages for distance-learning and other direct educational benefits to the Sherpa community in the region.
Most of our projects support VoIP communications networks deploying both TDM and VoIP technologies with an AIN / SS7 networks. These VoIP network projects have now transitioned into viable commercial entities operating in United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Italy, Japan, and Hong Kong. Collectively, these networks carry hundreds of mllions of minutes per month of commercial voice traffic.
The VoIP projects started because of our years of hands-on experience with Cisco, Quintum, NexTone, Asterisk and many other VoIP controllers. Collectively, these projects have deployed over 470 VoIP gateways. All of which came from an initial project to help a friend understand how to use the new VoIP technology in their telephony business model.
In another project Mike helped a medical appliance firm bring a mobile heart monitoring system to market. The project required integration of an embedded RTOS, a 900Mhz transceiver running proprietary sensor link protocols, an AMPS/CDMA cell phone chip set, and a GPS receiver chipset. All of this was squeezed into a package not much larger than a Palm size PDA.
The approach used was to provide hands-on support to port the RTOS to the new hardware, to write the device drivers, and to provide integration support for the hardware engineers and the application software developers. Having a solid background in telemetry, link protocls, TCP/IP protocols and Cellular networks was very useful.
Another project was to stabilize a large Call Center that was growing at explosive rates. When invited to "take a look our situation" the company was hiring 40 new employees every 3 weeks. New desks, computers, phones were going on a daily basis! When fully functional the 400 seat facility handeled 20,000 calls per shift, two shifts a day, 7 days a week. This project required dealing with 30+ T1 inbound voice trunks going to multiple CTI and IVR servers, a cluster of SQL database servers, and multiple Internet links supporting public WEB server access as well as SSL / VPN links going to remote retail store-fronts.
The approach used was to provide a rapid assessment and strategic
planning document for the engagement. From there, we launched into
a 3 month project during which the business multiplied the daily
sales rate by a factor of 4. We organized and participated in hands-on
training for the client's growing IT staff. We re-designed the
existing physical network facilities to more effectively deal
with the infrastructure growth, stabilized power distribution
and UPS backup power, re-design the LAN into multiple IP zones
where the key services had appearances on each subnet.
We assisted the IT staff in restructuring their SQL application.
Finally, we designed and, with the client's IT staff,
brought up a secure SSL / VPN thin-client application for
the remote store front locations.
This thin-client application was fully
integrated via redundant SSL servers for the front-end
and multiple database servers on the back end.
Judy continues to operate Trest Consulting
as Principal Consultant. Mike has taken on a management
role for IGC Acquisitiona Inc and provides technical support
for Trest Consulting projects as needed.
SOME HISTORY:
2007-2008 Mike helped start IGC Acquisitions, Inc.
(http://www.igcacquisitions.com)
as CTO.
He is Responsible for technical design, development and deployment of new
applications and networks.
He is also manages interconnect relationships for telephony
carriers and IP networks and is IGC's
official point of contact for FCC and other regulatory matters.
In 2004, Mike was appointed to Board of advisors to Scientigo, Inc. (See http://www.scientigo.com ). He later served as CTO.
In 2002, Mike was founder and CTO of Konfer Technologies (See http://www.konfertech.com ).
In 1999, Mike was a Sr. Advisory Consultant with Sun Technology Solutions. a financial and technology advisory firm serving communications technology companies. With specializations in satellite, telephony, and Internet convergence technologies, Mike advised SUN clients on technology and product development, corporate sales, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic investments.
In 1997, Mike And Judy both helpped a Japaneese startup Nippon ATMnet in Yokohama Japan with several Japanese friends and investors.
In 1995, Mike was CTO and a founder of ATMnet in San Diego, California one of the first commercial providers of fiber service for Internet clients. In addition to purely commercial customers, ATMnet incubated many regional ISP providers in Southern California, the largest Self-hosting WEB site provider, and many large WEB farm / E-Commerce sites. Mike was responsible for infrastructure planning, network deployment strategies, and incorporating new communications technologies. In addition, Mike also tracked standards of ATM FORUM ( ATMFORUM - Now IP/MPLS FORUM ) and the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ). Mike was also an invited participant in the Clinton-Gore Next Generation Internet workshop ( See publication.) Mike has spoken at industry seminars and before telco trade associations like United States Telephone Association ( USTA - - Now USTELECOM ) and Society Of Telecom Consultants ( STC ). Mike also presented the case for the ISP industry and the Commercial Internet Exchange ( CIX - - Now US ISPA ) membership before the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) and to the White House National Economic Council.
From 1980 ~ 1995, Mike held positions as Chief Scientist or Lead Engineer with Systems Development Corporation (now Unisys),
Purvis Systems, and Visicom Laboratories (now Titan) on projects for U.S. Navy and numerous government agencies.
On a personal note, you are welcome to Travel With Mike & Judy To Interesting Places
Last updated March 2008