Mike Trest
Short BIO:
Currently I am pursuing interesting opportunites via
Trest Consulting
We provide support to a number of clients on a project basis. Projects typically involve development of commercial communications products, IP and Voice network engineering, or WEB / Database / ASP design and development.
Design, Deployment, Operation of Data and Voice networks has been the focus of 2003. Many projects were single site installation via satellite to exotic destinations. One destination included design support for the Satllite and Ground station wireless network to support the Base Camp for climbers on Mount Everest!
Most of our efforts have supported networks for VoIP communications. One project was to integrate SS7 traffic from both International and North American sources with a cluster of VoIP gateways and soft-switches for a U.S. carrier.
The current project is design and deployment of a TDM and VoIP integrated network with initial capacity of 10,000 ports with expansion capacity to 40,000 ~ 100,000 ports.
The VoIP projects started because of years of hands-on experience with Cisco gear. Collectively, these projects have deployed over 350 VoIP gateways from Cisco, Quintum, and others. All of which came from an initial project to help a friend understand how to use the new VoIP technology in their telephony busines model.
Another recent project 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 protoocls, 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! Imagine the network resources and management tools needed to support 400 seat environment taking over 20,000 calls per shift, two shifts a day, 7 days a week. This project required dealing with 30+ T1 inbound voice circuits going to multiple CTI and Interactive Voice Response servers, a collection of SQL database servers, and multiple EDI links going to outside VANs. Also, toss in 2 T1 Internet links supporting public WEB server access as well as SSL / VPN links going to remote store-front offices.
The approach used was to provide a rapid assessment and strategic
planning document for the engabement. From there, we launched into
a 3 month project during which the business multiplied it's 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 SQL MicroSoft and Oracle database servers
on the back end.
PREVIOUSLY:
Sr. Advisory Consultant with Sun Technology Solutions. a financial and technology advisory firm serving communications technology companies. With my specializations in satellite, telephony, and Internet convergence technologies, I advised SUN clients on technology and product development, corporate sales, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic investments.
In 1997, I started Nippon ATMnet in Yokohama Japan with several Japanese friends and investors.
In 1995, I was CTO and a founder of ATMnet in San Diego, California one of the first commercial providers of 155Mbps ATM 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 fram / E-Commerse sites. I was responsible for infrastructure planning, network deployment strategies, and incorporating new communications technologies. In addition, I also tracked standards of ATM FORUM ( ATMFORUM ) and the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ). I was also an invited participant in the Clinton-Gore Next Generation Internet (NGI) workshop ( See publication.) I have spoken at industry seminars and before telco trade associations like United States Telephone Association ( USTA ) and Society Of Telecom Consultants ( STC ). I have also presented the case for the ISP industry and the Commercial Internet Exchange ( CIX ) membership before the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) and to the White House staff for the National Economic Council.
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Last updated March 2001
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