Roy D. Rector

Roy D. Rector is a founder and the Senior Digital Forensic Examiner of R3 Digital Forensics LLC. His experience includes criminal investigations and digital forensic analysis in matters involving theft of trade secrets, computer and e-mail spying, conversion, murder, crimes against children, and fraud. Roy has over 18 years of experience in digital forensics investigations and the handling and examination of digital evidence.

Roy was licensed as a Texas Peace Officer in May 1987. He was first commissioned in June 1987 with the Hereford, Texas Police Department, where he was employed as a police officer until August 1990.

In August of 1990, Roy was accepted into the police academy of the Austin Texas Police Department (APD). Roy received his commission as a police officer with APD in February 1991 and was assigned to patrol. He promoted to Detective in December 1997 and was assigned to the Child Abuse Investigation Unit.

Upon creation of a Child Exploitation section within this unit in April 2000, Roy was chosen as one of two detectives to staff the unit and was assigned to Computer Forensics. In 2001, Roy earned his CFCE (Certified Forensics Computer Examiner) certification from IACIS (International Association of Computer Investigative Specialist) and in 2002 his EnCE (EnCase Certified Examiner) from Guidance Software. As a Police Detective Computer Forensics Examiner, Roy has conducted hundreds of digital forensics examinations involving a myriad of criminal offenses, including fraud, murder and other criminal offenses.

In 2002 Roy joined Guidance Software, Inc. (GSI) as a member of their part-time training staff. Guidance Software is the maker of EnCase forensics software. During his six year tenure with GSI, Roy was a lead trainer for the Introductory and Intermediate EnCase computer forensic courses and has trained hundreds of computer forensics examiners. He continues to this day as a certification coach for IACIS and is a member of the High Tech Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA).

Roy begin providing digital forensics services to the private sector during his APD off-duty hours in 2003 when he founded RectorNet LLC. In 2008, Roy co-founded R3 Digital Forensics and merged RectorNet into the new company. Roy has conducted numerous digital forensics examinations in civil cases involving claims of trade secret misappropriation, copyright infringement, computer and e-mail spying, fraud, and civil conspiracy.

Roy retired from the Austin Police Department on March 31, 2014 after 27 years of law enforcement experience: 10 year Police Officer, 17 year Detective/investigator, 13 year Police Digital Forensic Examiner and is currently licensed by the State of Texas as a private investigator.