Deepak Purushothaman

Current

• Senior System Administrator at Mercedes Benz USA

Past

• Systems Engineer at Philips Medical Systems

Education

• Bachelors in Electronics

Connections

56 connections

Industry

Information Services

Deepak Purushothaman’s Summary

Deepak has around 10 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

• Senior System Administrator

  Mercedes Benz USA

  (Public Company; Automotive industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year)

  ENVIRONMENT: Windows 2003\2000, SQL server 2005, IIS 5.0\6.0, ASP.NET 1.1\2.0, Terminal services, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, VMware ESX Server 3.5.0, VMware Workstation 6.0.0, VMware Converter 3.0, Virtual Center 2.5, ADMT 3.0, WSUS 2.0\3.0.
  
  CONTRIBUTION
  • Responsible for maintaining 400 servers which includes physical and virtual.
  • Responsible for building and configuring new ESX servers and build virtual machines per specifications.
  • Configure storage LUN’s for the ESX server.
  • Converted 10 Physical machines to virtual machines, using VMware Converter.
  • Upgraded VMware Virtual Center from 2.0 to 2.5.
  • Supporting end-users with files shares, queue based printing, Microsoft clustering technology, NTFS, and Active Directory.
  • Upgraded WSUS server from 2.0 to 3.0.
  • Developed, tested and deployed Group Policy Objects within the Active Directory system.
  • Responsible for approving, scheduling and deploying updates using WSUS server.
  • Creation of server build documents and share management documents.
  • Responsible for installing Tivoli client scheduler on servers.
  • Responsible for troubleshooting TCP/IP, FTP, DNS, and WINS issues.
  • Installation configuration of IIS 5.0\6.0.
  • Configured multiple ASP.NET websites in IIS 6.0 using Virtual IPs.
  • Deployed ASP.NET applications in IIS 6.0 and configured the data sources.
  • Updating passwords for SSLs.
  • Configured Authentication methods in IIS 6.0 to control access to the applications.
  • Installation and configuration of SQL Server 2005.
  • Responsible for ensuring optimal level of customer support by providing 2nd and 3rd level support in coordination with the Support Center and extended on call support coverage as needed during nonstandard business hours.
  • Responsible for consultation on technical matters with Computer Operations, Network Services, Desktop Services, Systems Development, Enterprise Information Management and end-users.

• Systems Engineer

  Philips Medical Systems

  (Public Company; PHG; Medical Devices industry)

  November 2007 — August 2008 (10 months)

  CONTRIBUTION
  • 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.
  • Virtualized a 18 windows 2000 servers in a P2V migration using Platespin into VMware Vi3.
  • Worked on VMware enterprise features (DRS, HA, VMotion, VCB) and P2V tools such as VMware Converter.
  • Documented and maintained Enterprise Active Directory topology, design and architecture.
  • Manage Active Directory OU including adding/changing sub-OU’s, developing/implementing GPO's, creating/updating User accounts, creating/updating Computer accounts.
  • Subject Matter Expert and level 3 escalation support for IIS 6.0 / IIS 5.0 and other ASP.NET applications running on Windows Environment
  • Installed Equifax certificates for .NET applications in IIS and configured security ports.
  • Installation & administration of Windows 2003 Domain Controllers, Active Directory Design & Architecture, File/Print/Database Servers.
  • Configure, troubleshoot and monitor core services such as Active Directory, DNS, WINS, DHCP and group policy.
  • Group policy and user account management utilizing a multiple forest and tree directory structure in Active Directory.
  • Installing and configuring IIS, creating application pools, creating and maintaining websites and installing SSL certificates.
  • Creating and managing User accounts and Permissions on Windows 2003.
  • Installing SQL 2005 on Windows clustering, install SQL instances, SQL Reporting Services, SQL Management Studio and client components.

Deepak Purushothaman’s Education

• Bachelors in Electronics

  1995 — 1999

Additional Information

Deepak Purushothaman’s Groups:

•    InHouston
•    VMware Virtualization & Cloud Computing Group

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