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Dan Royce ASAP MCSE CEng MBCS

PERSONAL INFORMATION Date of Birth 05/03/1978

Address 4 Quarry Court, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 2BX

Nationality British

Landline/Mobile 07872568746

Email danroyce@me.com

Other Current Security Clearance, Full Driving License

PERSONAL PROFILE

I am an experienced solution architect who specialises in storage technology / infrastructure design, consultancy,

and management. I have significant experience in designing tiered platform solutions to provide clients with best

of breed solutions for storage and data management.

Significant experience of architecting solutions using Microsoft technologies in both physical and virtual

environments, using VMware and MS Virtual Server.

I have worked on both private and public sector pan European bids and delivery programs (ranging from small

localised solutions all the way up to up to £350M plus contracts) I have extensive knowledge of how to best

leverage best of breed solutions to meets customer requirements both technical and commercially.

BT (contract)

Contract: June 2013 – November 2014 Infrastructure Consultant

Working internally to design and deliver a tech refresh programme, my role was focused primary around desktop rollout. This involved creating and implementing an automated gold image using best practices for centralisation

and deployment.

SCC Nov 2012 to May 2013

NetApp Storage Technical Consultant

Pre-Sales Consultant specialising in NetApp technology design, installation and integration into small, medium

and large scale deployments. Responsible for all storage, backup, DR and virtualisation aspects of the solution .

My role was to help customers achieve their business and IT objectives through the use of world leading storage

management technologies alongside building and maintain ing good relationships with vendors.

Projects: Cardiff County Council

Working with Cardiff Council through workshops to capture the customer’s storage / hosting requirements and

then form a High Level Infrastructure Solution document, which was then used by the NetApp bid team and

myself to drive the tender response and design through to delivery and implementation. The solution put forward

centred on altering the Cardiff Council estate, (which operated with an active/passive DR set-up), over to an

active/active datacentre solution. We were competing against IBM, HDS, and Dell but our bid successfully won

the tender.

Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service

Lancashire FRS were undergoing a tech refresh of their NetApp estate but wished to retain/reuse as much infrastructure as possible, as such I designed and presented two NetApp FAS configurations to coincide with the different connectivity options available to them. Option 1 met the requirements of the 10GbE connectivity whilst Option 2 aligned with the requirements for the 8 GB Fibre options. SCC won this contract.

University of Derby

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Derby was looking to move towards a cloud based infrastructure, and wanted SCC to facilitate in this objective. In

addition they wanted to improve system availability and the ability to share infrastructure but with secure

separation. A requirement to reuse as much of the existing infrastructure was also vital. I designed and presented

multiple options to the solution team. SCC won this contract.

FUJITSU SERVICES

January 2000 to July 2012

Solutions Architect

Projects:

Dec 2011 – July 2012 G4S Storage Architect

Working on the transition and migration program my role was to design and implement the NetApp storage

solution using NetApp 3240 controllers.

April 2011 – Nov 2011 Astellas Lead Migration Architect

Architect Relocation and consolidation solution of 4 minor sites into one large site at Leiderdop University.

June 2010 – March 2011 HMRC Lead Change Architect

Lead Architect, coordinating the resourcing and management of all infrastructure changes that flowed through

HMRC. Allocating an appropriate resource to create the design documents required and when completed would

peer review the design before sending it to the Architectural Review Board for approval.

Dec 09 – June 2010 Home Office Storage Architect

Create and oversee High and Low Level Designs and Bill of Materials for extending the NetApp Storage array.

May 2009 – July 2012 Design & Development Technology Lead – Storage

Technology Lead for NetApp Data Management tools and services – Promote the use of NetApp products across

Fujitsu existing accounts and new business opportunities.

I performed this role alongside my position in the BRT (Bid Response Team).

Jun 2009 – Sep 2009 Telefonica Storage Architect

Assisting the Lead Storage Architect with pulling together the storage aspect of the bid and reviewing

documentation.

Jan 2009 – May 2009 Crossrail Storage Architect

Assisting the Lead Storage Architect in a consultancy role with the aim of pushing through a high revenue project

and attaining maximum discounts from the vendor, this was achieved.

Oct 2008 - Jan 2009 NHS Bristol PCT Storage Architect

Design and implementation of a leading edge Netapp/VMWare server virtualisation solution for the PCT Offices

in Bristol.

Feb 2008 - Mar 2008 British Waterways Solutions Architect

New storage design for SharePoint on NetApp storage ad data capture / migration

Oct 2007 – Jan 2008 Internal – Rendezvous Project Lead Architect

Third party resource booking system for LON22 installed into Fujitsu DC for David Courtly (CEO of Fujitsu

Services)

Dec 2007 Affinity Sutton Housing Association Migration Architect

Active Directory consolidation from multiple domain into one followed by migration.

Sep 2006 – Dec 2007 DVLA Solutions Architect

Working on a desktop refresh programme my role was twofold, to create HLD & LLD for new desktop gold disk

and secondly devise a solution to role the new build out across the platforms.

Mar 2006 – Sep 2006 Lloyds TSB- Exchange Solutions Architect

Working with the Exchange team within Lloyds TSB responsible for creating high and low level designs for the

migration of 75,000 users from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003.

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Jan 2005 – Mar 2006 WHSmith – Exchange & Infrastructure Lead Solutions Architect

Working with Exchange 2003 SP2 and the MX 5000 device I provided Proof of Concept of the new Push

technology that Microsoft can now provide with Exchange 2003 SP2. This was leading edge technology for

WHSmith.

Jan 2005 – July 2005 Fujitsu Services (Internal) - Triole Solutions Architect

TRIOLE is the Fujitsu Group’s global strategy for optimising IT. Fujitsu Services will use it as a differentiated

approach to building and managing new infrastructure solutions. It is a key Fujitsu Group strategic programm e

that will provide customers with leading edge, robust solutions.

July 2004 – Jan 2005 Vodafone Solutions Architect

After completing the discovery phase I worked within the on site design team where I created Low Level Designs

for converting the physical boxes into to virtual machines.

July 2000 – 2004 Fujitsu Services (Internal) – Core Services Technical Services Specialist

Working within a team of 3, I supported 6 Fujitsu sites around the South West region, with approximately 2,000

users. Fujitsu has a mixture of Windows 95/98, NT, 2000, and XP workstations that provided me with excellent

‘hands-on’ experience of supporting multi-operational platforms.

EDUCATION

Falmouth Grammar School 1989- 1994

10 GCSE’s – Maths, English Language, English Lit, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, French, Latin, Geography, History Trevithick Business Centre – Cornwall College 1994 – 1996 BTEC National Diploma in Computer Science Brunel College 1997 – 1998 AS-Level Law & AS Level Psychology Executive Training 1999 – 1999 Microsoft Certified System Engineer

WORK RELATED TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT NetApp Accredited Storage Architect

Program (ASAP) Deploying Microsoft 2000 Pro, Installing &

Configuring MS File, Print & Web Servers

Cisco Router & Swtich Admin and Mgt VMWare ESX Server System Mgt

Implementing & Managing MS Exchange Server 2003

Designing & Planning a MS Exchange Server 2003 Organization

CA eTrust AV / Unicentre Software Delivery / Asset Management

VMWare P2V Training

MS Virtual Server 2005 Core & Trouble shooting

NetApp EMEA Accredited Storage Architect Program

Exchange 2010

NetApp Accredited Storage Architect Program Valuing in People Bronze Award

British Computer Society Accreditation - Member

The Fujitsu Excellence Award Scheme – Silver The Fujitsu Excellence Award Scheme – Bronze

Microsoft Certified System Engineer

INTERESTS & HOBBIES

I am interested in most sporting activities. I’m a member of my local Triathlon club and like to compete in a co uple of half marathons each year either in the UK or abroad. I am a Founder Member of Portishead Pool Trust. I’m involved in charity work to save a local open air pool from closure by the council.