Deepak Purushothaman

Current

• Systems Administrator at Mercedes Benz USA
• Systems Engineer at Philips Medical Systems

Past

• Systems Engineer at Alcatel-Lucent
• Infrastructure Engineer at Microsoft
• Tivoli administrator at US Oncology

• Engineer at GE Consumer Finance

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Education

• Bachelors in Electronics

Connections

22 connections

Industry

Information Services

Deepak Purushothaman’s Summary

Deepak has more than 8 years of experience in the IT Industry with a Professional Engineering Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication. His technical expertise and capability spreads across Server administration, Virtualization using Vmware, Backup administration, Database administration, Web administration, Product support, Software Support, Vendor Management, Asset management, Customer support, change control implementation and Project Management. He has hardcore hands on experience on Active directory, group policies, SQL server Administration and Internet Information services (IIS). He also has a strong implementation, configuration, migration and maintenance of IBM Tivoli storage manager 5.1 \5.2\5.3.He has excellent experience in Change management tools, namely Clarify and Remedy. He also possesses good Team management skills as he had leaded various projects for fortune 500 Clients and Corporate Houses.

Deepak Purushothaman’s Specialties:

VMware ESX\GSX servers, Systems administration, ITILF, IPTV, IIS, Change management.

Deepak Purushothaman’s Experience

• Systems Administrator

  Mercedes Benz USA

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Automotive industry)

  July 2008 — Present (6 months)

  Installing and Configuring Vmware ESX Servers and host new VM's.
  Create VMware Templates.

• Systems Engineer

  Philips Medical Systems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PHG; Medical Devices industry)

  November 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  • Designed and administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware Virtual Center, using Virtual Center, ESX, creating VMs, using/building VM templates and customization files, and scheduling tasks.
  • Installation, configuration and management of multiple server suites (Windows 2000\2003) on VMware ESX server.
  • Performed ongoing hardware and software maintenance of Windows server environment, including VMware ESX Server and virtual machines.
  • Installing and configuring VMware GSX and installing applications in QA environment.
  • Installation & administration of Windows 2003 Domain Controllers, Active Directory Design & Architecture, File/Print/Database Servers.
  • Group policy and user account management utilizing a multiple forest and tree directory structure in Active Directory.
  • Installing and configuring IIS, creating application pools and installing SSL certificates.
  • Installing and configuring SQL 2005

• Systems Engineer

  Alcatel-Lucent

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2007 — November 2007 (6 months)

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  • Responsible for providing Tier 2 support for Windows 2003 server issues and IPTV deployment issues.
  • Installed and configured 500 servers with Windows 2003 and IPTV 1.1 using ADS.
  • Responsible for installing and configuring the SQL server 2005.
  • Installed and Configured SMS 2003 server and Client via ADS script.
  • Performing as technical expert on Video servers and the IPTV platform. This includes VOD Servers, Client Facing Servers, Backend and other Middleware Servers.
  • Responsible for installing, configuring and troubleshooting clustering on the SQL server and troubleshooting Network load balancing on all application servers.
  • Installed and configured AD and group policy on the backend domain controllers and the DMZ domain controllers.
  • Installed and configured MOM on the backend and DMZ servers.
  • Installed and configured Certificate Auto enrollment services on all the servers.

• Infrastructure Engineer

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  July 2006 — February 2007 (8 months)

  • Hands on experience on ADS (Automated Deployment Services) and Created Sequences using ADS Sequence Editor tool
  • Troubleshooting Network Issues using Ethereal 0.10.13
  • Responsible for setting up the domain controllers and configuring active directory.
  • Installed and Configured SMS 2003 server and Client via ADS script.
  • Installed and Configured SQL 2005 Database and Configured SAN and Configured SQL Clusters.
  • Installed and Configured MOM 2005 and MOM Agent via ADS script.
  • Configuring and troubleshooting the A-server, D-servers and the V-servers.
  • Travel across various Microsoft client sites and perform the validations.
  • Performing as technical expert on Video servers and the IPTV platform. This includes VOD Servers, Client Facing Servers, Backend and other Middleware Servers.
  • Validate successful video streaming and responsible for getting the site sign off document from the client.

• Tivoli administrator

  US Oncology

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  2006 — 2007 (1 year)

• Engineer

  GE Consumer Finance

  (Information Services industry)

  2005 — 2006 (1 year)

Deepak Purushothaman’s Education

• Bachelors in Electronics

  1995 — 1999

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