Robert Olinghouse
Collinsville,Oklahoma
Summary
Experienced network professional adept at managing large-scale network projects and ensuring seamless connectivity for enterprises. Known for delivering reliable network solutions and enhancing system security. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results, adaptable to changing needs.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Network Engineer
Verizon
09.2022 - Current
- Designing and building critical customer networks for customers with high availability requirements
- Provide consulting, implementation engineering for client networks
- CVS: Survey, Design, Build, and Migrate multiple sites from Core Nexus7K devices to newer Cisco9300 and Cisco9500 devices successfully
- Migration consisted of configuring new Cisco9300/9500 devices, swinging all routing BGP, EIGRP, OSPF to new core switches, moving all cables from Nexus7K to new Cisco switches
- Assisting with site readiness for SDWAN which includes working with on-site field tech to remediate cable connections to ensure site consistency to roll out SDWAN for multiple sites
Sr. Manager - PS Consulting
Verizon
10.2019 - 09.2022
- Sr
- Manager for Verizon Professional Services WAN and SDWAN practice area
- Oversee a highly experienced team, provide project guidance, requirements, personnel-related activities, individual development planning, and guidance on training to improve skill sets enhancing the value they deliver to Verizon
- Developed product offerings with partner Actual Experience for product End-User Experience Assessment
- Currently developing Verizon Network as a Service (NaaS)
- Work with account executives, sales, and pre-sales to provide scoping, level of effort, review and modify statements of work on various projects
- Present Verizon offering to clients and sales teams for Verizon's WAN, SDWAN, and DAS capabilities
- Responsible to oversee multiple WAN & SDWAN projects which include allocating experienced resources, interviewing, hiring, contracting with multiple third party vendors and to provide appropriate resources for successful completion of projects
- Built up the WAN/SDWAN team from 2 engineers to 6 WAN/SDWAN engineers
- I've hired and oversee an additional 18 resources on the following projects: Cleveland Clinic 7 resources (4 FTEs, 3 staff-aug), Bombardier 1 resource (Staff-aug), Nestle 1 resource (FTE), USPS 9 resources (staff-aug)
- Continue to build and maintain strong relationships with clients for their resource needs
Principal Network Engineer
Verizon
02.2019 - 10.2019
- Designing and building critical customer networks for customers with high availability requirements
- Provide consulting, implementation engineering for client networks
- PepsiCo: Responsible for building out version of PepsiCo infrastructure in the Verizon Richardson TX
- Lab to mimic PepsiCo's requirement from transitioning their existing network service node (NSN) core switch infrastructure with higher capacity
- Test and validate planned routing logic and migration plan for seamless implementation of new NSN core infrastructure
- This project required building out 4500-VSS based switches as core, ASRs, ISRs, Cisco L3 switches, ASAs
- Breaking the VSS pair into two logical cores, migration onto new 9600 switches, adding bgp peering, PO trunks, enabling OSPF without down time to customer's network
- Developed Implementation Documentation Package and Site acceptance check list, test results and recommendation document, review and low level design
- This process was repeated 3 times to encompass all of the PepsiCo NSN sites (London, Frankfurt, Singapore)
- Global Payments: Global Payments undertaking adoption of Cisco Viptela SDWAN, created Statement of Requirements, High level design, Low Level design along with implementation documentation
- Responsibilities included build out of SDWAN controller complexes, 4 datacenters, and vEdge branch migrations for 16 sites
- City of Sacramento Wifi: Responsible for configuring Meraki Wifi access point in 27 different Sacramento Parks
- Developed implementation engineering package that aligns with the City's requirements such as WIFI time schedules, filtering content, splash pages, cradlepoint activations, Access point activations and turn over to managed services documentation
- Trained customer on dashboard to review and access needed utilization reporting
Cslt III-PS Syst Integr
Verizon
10.2006 - 02.2019
- Designing and building critical customer networks for customers with stringent high availability requirements
- Provide professional services consulting, implementation, engineering for client networks
- List of Verizon clients I have supported while in Verizon: American Airlines: Built San Jose, Tulsa and Plano data centers and maintained connectivity in and between data centers
- Maintained daily activities in multiple data centers with multiple client applications
- Upgraded Network Infrastructures in 7 data centers with 112 + network devices
- Installed and configured equipment with constant additional changes to networks to accommodate client applications
- Oversee day to day client network activity
- Built out SDN/NSX environment for AA on IBM soft layer
- Planned and migrated current AA.com to IBM soft layer data center
- Built 2nd SDN/NSX IBM soft layer data center in disaster recovery location, configured that data center as a DR site for AA.com
- Sabre: Day to day changes within network infrastructure
- Responsible for maintaining and adding multiple branch to branch VPNs for remote travel agencies access into Sabre's travel booking tools
- Jet Blue: Install and configured network equipment in Colorado data center
- Worked with multiple team members to ensure Jet Blue's multiple datacenters were in sync and identical for datacenter configurations, license, and code revisions
- Medical Industry: Kaiser Permanente: Built two data center networks in Silver Springs, MD with connectivity to KP's other data centers
- Planned and executed replacements of older core Nexus gear in KP's production data centers
- Retail Industry: Lowes: Installed Nexus 1000v technologies in multiple data centers
- Modifications of load balancers and upgrading load balancers
- Modify network infrastructure for client applications
- Best Buy: Built new data centers planned and migrated from older datacenters to new data center build outs
- Misc
- Industries: Booz & Co.: Install and configure firewall in preparation for migration from older infrastructure, brought Booz and Co
- Into Verizon management
- Replaced old hardware with new gear and new ASA firewalls
- Multiple Branch to Branch VPN tunnels
- Vectrus: Build out small infrastructure in Engelwood Colorado for move then planned and coordinated the physical move from Colorado Springs into Engelwood Co
- Newly build infrastructure
- CRA (Charles River Associates): Buildout 2nd datacenter across town and develop communication between primary corporate data center with this 2nd data center across town helped with the physical plan and move of the corp
- Datacenter devices into newly built datacenter
- IHS: Worked with team lead and team to help build out data center infrastructure
- Nortek: Configured Nortek Cisco ASAs including all ACL rules and multiple branch to branch VPN tunnels
Education
Bachelor of Science (BS) - Computer Science
Langston University
05.1997
Skills
- Network Monitoring Tools
- IP Address Management
- Virtual private networks
- Local Area Networks
- Load Balancing Techniques
- Software-Defined Networking
- Wide-area Networks
- Network Troubleshooting
- Effective Communication
- Verbal and written communication
- Networking and routing protocol expertise
- Hardware Installation
Affiliations
- F5 BigIP LTM
- F5 devcentral
- Cisco
- Palo Alto
- Fortinet
Honorsandawards
- 05/30/18, Spotlight, United States, business impacting contribution to team's April success. Healthcare & Insurance appreciation MVP, David Smith
- 11/04/16, spotlight, United States, award outstanding personal and team commitment Verizon, David Wolsefer
- 12/11/14, Spotlight, United States, award while working on Booz Allen client, Anthony Turni
Timeline
Principal Network Engineer
Verizon
09.2022 - Current
Sr. Manager - PS Consulting
Verizon
10.2019 - 09.2022
Principal Network Engineer
Verizon
02.2019 - 10.2019
Cslt III-PS Syst Integr
Verizon
10.2006 - 02.2019
Bachelor of Science (BS) - Computer Science
Langston University
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