Deepak is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS), IP Network Architect, with Verizon / Verizon Wireless, in the Transport Strategy and Analysis Group in Walnut Creek, California USA since 2005. Previously he was a Staff Engineer, IP Network Architect at Sun Microsystems Inc., Menlo Park, California, for a total of 11 years since 1994. He also worked at Corona Networks as a Principal Engineer in the Network Management Systems group; Digital Equipment Corp, where he worked on DEC OSF/1; and Nortel Networks (Bell Northern Research) in Ottawa, Canada. He received a certificate in Networking from the Dept of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. He received a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Systems, a Master of Science in Computer Science, and has completed Ph.D. qualifiers and course work in Computer Science. He has 3 awarded patents and filed 10 patents in the area of Network and Systems Management and Wireless Technologies.