Roy Collins

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About Roy Collins

Accomplished professional offering broad range of experience and technical expertise developed with diverse companies operating in varied industries. Over 20 years of technical expertise implementing, maintaining, managing and monitoring various information technology systems, infrastructure management, disaster recovery planning and implementation. High availability computer systems architecture and support. Skilled at project planning and management.Expertise in developing and reviewing system requirements, designing and architecting solutions, and creating technology strategies to address business requirements. Ownership and support of Microsoft Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Clustering, MDM solutions, MS Exchange and various versions of Microsoft Servers over the years. Experience with Exchange 2010 migration and support also utilizing mail gateways like Cisco Iron Ports, Postini and mail archive systems. Additional roles including, lead virtualization and storage engineer, gathering information, desigmimg building, migrating supporting and monitoring VMware farms. Designing, supporting and managing SAN storage systems, NAS architecture design and management. Server hardware install and management including Cisco and HP blade servers. Converged infrastructure architecture and management.Experience architecting and configuring Citrix and VMware horizon based remote desktop solutions. Additional responsibilities: E-Discovery confidential information gathering from messaging archives.