The people who
pick up the phone.

Oly was a senior consultant for a firm in Dallas when he decided the business model was not upfront enough about client needs. It sat on him until he had had enough. He quit, told the owner he was going to do this better, and started OCS.

The timing was not gentle. He had to tell Dea he was jobless and starting a business on a Monday morning, while they sat poolside at his birthday party with the last $400 he had to his name. He had put the conversation off all weekend. Just as he finally said it, his pager rang. A client. He called back to explain he no longer worked for the firm: “Great! Can you take over Monday?”

The old firm is out of business now. OCS is still here, still independent, and we still pay the taxes. Best decision he ever made.

Richard was born in Connecticut and raised there until he was 13, with three younger siblings, then moved to Houston for his mother’s job. In high school his interest in computers became an A+ certification through CompTIA, the first year the school sent students to test for the full certification.

He enlisted in the Army in July 2001, with his first day of basic training on November 5th of that year. He married his best friend Arlie in August 2002, deployed to combat in March 2003, and was medically retired from active duty after eight years. Two daughters, a 20th anniversary in 2022, and a house that also holds two goats, three dogs, two cats and a standing Friday “Coffee Night” fellowship.

At OCS since 2010, he handles management tasks at the Fort Worth office plus field and remote support: SonicWall and Unifi configuration, general network maintenance, server administration, and project coordination for installs and network moves.