As Founder and CEO of GridGears, Michael Proestler is driving the company’s vision of creating highly efficient, interconnected and multimedia capable emergency services by providing standardized components and contributing to the standards. Michael actively supports and promotes the standards by sharing his knowledge in EENA organized webinars and published documents. Additionally, he provides his expertise to develop NG112 conformance test specifications as a technical expert in ETSI’s STF 549 and TTF T009.
Michael has more than 10 years of experience in Public Safety. Starting out as a software engineer, designing and implementing mission-critical systems for public safety, he later provided his extensive technical knowledge as a consultant and then founded GridGears in 2017. Michael graduated from Vienna University of Technology in 2008 with a master’s degree in Computer Science. During his last year at the university, he started working in the Public Safety sector and the challenging and meaningful characteristics of that business captivated him ever since.