Oscar Olivas is a Network Engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Oscar is the son of immigrant parents and was the first in his family to graduate high school and attain a post-secondary degree. He graduated from El Paso Community College before recieving a Bachelor of Information Engineering Techonology from Mew Mexico State University.

Despite only achieving a middle school education, his parents encouraged him to pursue a higher education. The role of family is vital to him, and he is eternally grateful to his parents who supported him and sacrificed for him to be where he is today.

Oscar has been part of the TRIO program since middle school and continues to be part of the program as an alumnus. TRIO helped him fill the gaps that his parents could not when it came to applying to college and figuring out how to pay for it. To give back to the community that helped him, he helps others apply to LANL and help them in answering any questions they may have.

He believes that pursuing an education past high school, including trade school, is essential to just survive in this day and age. His parents always told him that to make something of yourself, you need a career, you can accomplish something, and to do that, you need and education.

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