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.
• 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.
• Implement sensors solutions in more than 5 million square feet of data centers.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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..
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.