About Us

The staff at TRS has an average of 20 years experience in the Telecom industry working for OEM's, Carriers and supply companies.  Our staff is committed to understanding our customer's needs and exceeding their expectations by creatively approaching each opportunity and carefully devising a low cost solution.  We understand that there is no off the shelf answer to any one challenge, so we bring flexibility along with our experience to our customers and collectively find the solution.

Executive Bios

David Gualco - President and Co-Founder
Mr. Gualco is one of the founders of TRS and began the company by utilizing his 21 years of experience in telecommunication engineering, component level testing and repair.  Mr. Gualco has worked has way through virtually every technology in the Telecom industry including Wireline, Wireless and Data.

Prior to the beginning of TRS, Mr. Gualco ran the re-work and distribution depot of Nortel Networks/Bay Network remarking division in Sunnyvale, California. In Dallas, Texas, he managed the repair, E&I and distribution for Southwestern Bell, Sprint, Pacific Bell, GTE, Airtouch, AT&T wireless and Primeco.  Additionally, Mr. Gualco's team became the OEM repair facility for Fujitsu and PairGain.

Robert O'Leary - VP Sales and Business Development and Co-Founder
Mr. O'Leary brings over 12 years of technology focused sales, account management and business development experience to TRS. Most recently, after two years of providing a range of new and refurbished equipment to dozens of Tier 1, 2 and 3 wireless carriers, he saw an opportunity to merge his hardware and distribution knowledge with the technology centric foundations of TRS.

Mr. O'Leary previously started or invested in multiple companies such as Gifttracker.com and Kids Klub Pasadena and part of a founding team at idealab! under Bill Gross, where the company raised multiple rounds of financing before the company's software product was sold in 2001.  While with IBM in their Global Services Division, Mr. O'Leary also provided supply chain integration consulting to Fortune 1000 companies such as Mattel and Suzuki Motors.

Mr. O'Leary has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Bucknell University and an MBA in Finance from the University of Southern California where he was commencement speaker for his graduating class.

John O'Brien – Operations Manager
John O'Brien is the Operations Manager for TRS. In this role, Mr. O'Brien supervises all operational activities and maintains customer relations with AT & T wireless and numerous other Telecom customers. He brings to TRS 13 years of Telecom Operational experience.

Prior to joining TRS, Mr. O'Brien was a key figure in the implementation of PacBell's PACE project throughout the state of California. This included bar coding and scanning of all plug-ins in the Pacific Bell Central Offices. For his achievements on the project, Mr. O'Brien received an award from Pacific Bell for his leadership role. Additionally, Mr. O'Brien was the Operations Manager in Fremont California overseeing all internal operational functions of the repair and distribution of PacBell wire line equipment with a focus on Turnaround time and overall performance. He then moved on to the Sunnyvale California Nortel Networks / Bay Networks distribution and repair facility. Along with overseeing the Pacific Bell operations, he also managed all internal operational functions and the distribution of product to Nortel end user customers. Mr. O'Brien then moved on to become a Project Manager in the Nortel Division with a focus on distribution and performance in Oakville and Argentia Ontario Canada. In 2001, Mr. O'Brien was the Project Manager in Aurora Colorado overseeing the Qwest Wire Line repair and distribution process with focus on turnaround time and overall performance. During his time in Colorado, he also implemented the Motorola Next Level and the Qwest TechTAD repair and logistics projects.

Joseph Kennedy - Senior Engineer
Mr. Kennedy brings over 9 years of technical and engineering experience to TRS. He previously was Technical Manager with Somera Communications, a major telecommunications re-use company.

While with Somera Communications, Mr. Kennedy ran large projects for ATT Wireless to include national power equipment redeployment, refurbishment and testing; national migration of leased T1 lines to spread-spectrum microwave, to include designing, building & deploying custom engineered outdoor microwave enclosures. Mr. Kennedy has also provided custom engineering solutions to select Verizon and Cingular markets. Mr. Kennedy has also managed test bed development and implementation for systems to include Ericsson RBS2206, 2202 and 2302 GSM, Nortel 800DR and 1900 TDMA, Nortel DMX switching, Ericsson 882 & 884 cellular systems, Tellabs Titan 5500 DACS, power systems by Marconi, Ericsson, Astec & Argus, and Motorola CDMA & Analog Cellular systems.

Mr. Kennedy is a US Army veteran and attended University of California, Santa Barbara.