About

Rob McShinsky has been working in technology for over 21 years focusing on server management and systems architecture design and is currently employed as a Sr. Systems Engineer at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. He has also been a regular contributor and member of the Server Virtualization Advisory Board at SearchServerVirtualization.

His most notable skills are in the area of server virtualization since 2004. Rob has been the development architect working closely with Microsoft as an early adopter and ongoing participant in TAP/RDP programs of Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). This has included video and written case studies, acting as a customer reference, and speaking with industry analysts and vendors about Hyper-V and multiple System Center products. Rob has been the lead in migrating hundreds of Windows servers at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center using Virtual Server 2005 R2 and Hyper-V R1/R2/R2 SP1/2012/2012 R2/2016/2019 virtualization platforms over the years.  Rob is also the technical lead and architect of the Microsoft Active Directory infrastructure at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and has lead multiple affiliate domain migrations and organizational mergers. Other skills include management storage infrastructure, Citrix/Terminal Services, and Windows desktop deployment scenarios.

In addition he  blogs at VirtuallyAware.com, tweets at @VirtuallyAware and speaks at various technical events about experiences, giving tips on virtualization and management solutions.