My career and passion for IT started within the Desk Side Support environment, I enjoyed identifying and solving IT issues which lent my skill sets to systems analysis. I progressed within to Fujitsu from Technician through to Lead Technical Specialist. My career then took a turn towards design and implementation, I worked my way up to Solutions Architect specialising in wintel, infrastructure, storage technology 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.

1. Dan M Royce ASAP MCSE CEng MBCS
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of Birth 5th March 1978
Address The Garden Apartment, 7 Greenway Road, Redland, Bristol, BS6 6SG
Mobile 07548344027
Email danroyce@me.com
Other Current Security Clearance, Full Clean Driving License
PERSONAL PROFILE
My career and passion for IT started within the Desk Side Support environment, I enjoyed
identifying and solving IT issues which lent my skill sets to systems analysis. I progressed
within to Fujitsu from Technician through to Lead Technical Specialist. My career then took
a turn towards design and implementation, I worked my way up to Solutions Architect
specialising in wintel, infrastructure, storage technology 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.
GDS International (contract)
Contract:September 2015 –December 2015
IT Help Desk Technician
My main responsibilities were focused around problem shooting day to day IT issues for
both the local and transatlantic user base. I maintained, the smooth running of the back
office suite including AD, DHCP, DNS, MS Server, and Office 365.
BT (contract)
Contract:June 2013 –September 2015
Infrastructure Consultant

2. Working internally to design and deliver a tech refresh programme, my role was focused
primarily around desktop rollout. This involved creating and implementing an automated
gold image with AD group policy, we constantly updated documentation for best
practices, centralisation and deployment.
On another project I was the technical architect involved with setting up commercial Wi-Fi
Hot-Spots with retails shops and shopping centres.
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 maintaining 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
datacenter 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
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.

3. 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

4. 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.
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 programme 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 Technical 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

5. 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

6. INTERESTS & HOBBIES
I am interested in most sporting activities. I’m a member of my local Triathlon club and like
to compete in a couple 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.