Rob Olson Email & Phone Number

Whitewater, Wi, Usa

Owner of a technology company focused on solutions using sensors and sensor networks. iButtonLink excels at providing custom engineered sensor solutions.Examples of custom solutions include:• Create a multidrop sensor solution that could be used characterize the temperature variations throughout a large data center. This product is now the T-String™• Implement a 1-Wire® based multidrop sensor solution to work in a high electrical noise environment.… Show more Owner of a technology company focused on solutions using sensors and sensor networks. iButtonLink excels at providing custom engineered sensor solutions.Examples of custom solutions include:• Create a multidrop sensor solution that could be used characterize the temperature variations throughout a large data center. This product is now the T-String™• Implement a 1-Wire® based multidrop sensor solution to work in a high electrical noise environment. Deploy in more than 1,000 facilities.• Implement a robust 1-Wire® network solution supporting over 200 sensors and thousands of feet of cable with a single network and power connection that was used in more than 2 million square feet of data centers with high reliability for more than 10 years.• Implement sensors solutions in more than 5 million square feet of data centers.• Work with researchers to move multiple sensor solutions from research to either functional prototypes or completed products.• Create a robust wireless network for dense sensor implementations. Deploy in more than 2 million sq ft of data centers.• 1-Wire® master solutions deployed in the arctic tundra, ~1 meter above the surface, which survive winds and weather for multiple seasons. A few custom sensor customers include: IBMAlphabet/GoogleCisco and FSG EnergyLawrence Berkeley National LabSavantGracoWestell Show less

Chicago, Il

Closed Vertex Partners and transferred customers to American Digital. Became partner at American Digital. Started and managed services group, became CTO.Interesting Solutions:• Fully redundant Infrastructure solutions (infrastructure services, servers, storage, operating system, server networks) with complete automated failover for multiple corporate SAP and PeopleSoft solutions.• SAN design and implementations reducing cost, improving performance, and implementing… Show more Closed Vertex Partners and transferred customers to American Digital. Became partner at American Digital. Started and managed services group, became CTO.Interesting Solutions:• Fully redundant Infrastructure solutions (infrastructure services, servers, storage, operating system, server networks) with complete automated failover for multiple corporate SAP and PeopleSoft solutions.• SAN design and implementations reducing cost, improving performance, and implementing redundancy.• Isolated a hardware/driver bug that had affected high redundancy cluster failover for hundreds of corporations. Bug spanned multiple operating systems including Windows Server, AIX, Digital UNIX, and Linux. Other accomplishments:• Key team member that grew the company from $4 million to $40 million in annual revenues while significantly increasing profit margins and improving customer delivery.• Implemented and ran the technical services group.• CTO - made all technical direction choices for solutions, services, and products offered.• Key team member in the transition of American Digital from a broker/resell to a solutions company.Top customers included:Alberto Culver (Now Unilever)EMDPurdue UniversityCity Colleges of ChicagoWrigleyMARS CorporationOshkosh CorporationNalco, an Ecolab companyTate & Lyle Show less

Mount Prospect, Il

Founder and principal of a technical consulting company. Focused on providing key technical services to small Digital Equipment Corporation value added resellers that could not staff high end technical skills in-house. Provided security, disaster recover, automated failover, and redundant infrastructures. Total of three consultants. Merged Vertex Partners into American Digital in 2006.Vertex Partners was my first startup. Interesting Solutions:• Part of team that… Show more Founder and principal of a technical consulting company. Focused on providing key technical services to small Digital Equipment Corporation value added resellers that could not staff high end technical skills in-house. Provided security, disaster recover, automated failover, and redundant infrastructures. Total of three consultants. Merged Vertex Partners into American Digital in 2006.Vertex Partners was my first startup. Interesting Solutions:• Part of team that implemented testing and design of disaster recovery for a fortune 500 medical company.• Windows network designs for corporations in the first year of Windows Server (Windows NT).• Corporate wide Exchange server solution design and implementation in beta and first months of Microsoft Exchange release.• Corporate network firewall services and SPAM management solutions in 1999 - before most people had heard of spam.• Design and implementation of single sign on solutions integrating multiple applications.• Network analysis and correction using advanced packet sniffing tools with custom designed statistical analysis of traffic.• Chief technical architect providing IT direction and custom solutions design for a significant customer. Solutions used by over 10,000 end users for email, marketing, and data analysis.Top customers included:Alberto Culver (Now Unilever)BaxterIBMMacLean Fogg CompanySGS ToolsRexnordCCIM Institute Show less

Field support engineer covering undefined problem resolution for networking, storage, and servers. Transitioned into providing consulting for infrastructures under OpenVMS, UNIX, and Windows.Interesting Problem Solutions:• Found OS bugs from day 1 of VAX/VMS; submitted corrections for the same.• Found and solved problems for customers in hardware, software, and networks that caused critical disruption to key applications.• Isolated problems starting at customer network to… Show more Field support engineer covering undefined problem resolution for networking, storage, and servers. Transitioned into providing consulting for infrastructures under OpenVMS, UNIX, and Windows.Interesting Problem Solutions:• Found OS bugs from day 1 of VAX/VMS; submitted corrections for the same.• Found and solved problems for customers in hardware, software, and networks that caused critical disruption to key applications.• Isolated problems starting at customer network to IC design level and errata.• Crash dump analysis for various critical problems that lead to problem causes including: hardware design correction, OS bugs, driver bugs, intermittent hardware, power issues, and network protocol bugs. Other accomplishments:• Denoted as "undefined problem" solution engineer. Deployed for customers where the core cause of a problem could not be determine or isolated to a system, software, network, or in some cases a facility.• On task force to find new efficiency solutions for field engineers with proposal submitted to the board of directors of Digital Equipment.• Part of team to attempt implementation of a cutting-edge video streaming solution when a computer could not stream even a single movie from disk.• Started a consulting group inside local field service generating more than $300K of revenue per quarter.• On a scale of "T2" to "T9" engineers, started as "T4" mid-level engineer and move to "T8" support engineer. No higher designated engineers in Chicagoland; three T9 in country at the time.Top customers I personally supported:Alberto Culver (Now Unilever)Baxter, Allegiance Healthcare, and then Cardinal HealthMcKessonAbbottChicago TitleCrédit AgricoleCaterpillarBeechcraft (now part of Textron Aviation)Quaker OatsChicago TribuneChicago Stock ExchangeSouth Suburban HospitalAmeritechFermiLab Show less