Ivan Mcclary

IT Professional with over 13 years of experience in design review, project coordination, implementation, administration, escalation support, change request as-needed troubleshooting in a 24/7 mission-critical environment focusing on technologies in routing, switching, security, firewalls, load balancing, and data center technologies.

VectorUSA Network Engineer III 2024-Present

• Senior Network Engineer that handles a team of Network Engineers in maintaining VectorUSA’s top client Long Beach Container Terminal’s network and systems infrastructure.
• Designed and implemented Cisco routing/switching solutions using BGP in mirco-segment VRF environment with Fortinet SD-WAN fabric.
• Deployed and managed F5 ACTIVE/ACTIVE LTM/WAF solution allowing application segment along with increasing application performance improvement.
• Supported Cisco DNA Center driven operations including fabric provisioning, policy validation, and post change verification.
• Manage Palo Alto firewalls and Panorama for policy updates, change control, and operational tickets under SLA/SLO requirements.
• Led Palo Alto & Fortigate Zero Trust project: converted 150+ ASA rules to modern policies, reducing attack surface by 65%. Implemented Fortinet ZTNA, url filtering, and FortiNAC solution.
• Conducted East West traffic analysis and rule tuning, reducing lateral movement risk and strengthening zero trust posture.
• Analyzed daily/weekly/monthly network performance trends using SolarWinds, Splunk, and F5 dashboards, identifying capacity risks and optimizing routing paths.
• Managed and engineered end‑to‑end hybrid cloud environments across Azure, AWS, and on‑prem datacenters, overseeing routing, security, connectivity, and modernization initiatives that ensured consistent architecture, governance, and operational reliability across all platform.
• Assisted in Developing and implementing cybersecurity strategies for maritime infrastructure, aligning with international standards such as IMO MSC.428(98), NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27001, and BIMCO guidelines.

LANWAN Professional Senior Network Engineer 2021-2024

• Mentored a team of engineers that handled clients from government agencies to Fortune 500 companies nationwide responsible for the design, implementation, support, and maintenance of the network (physical, logical).
• Architected and implemented multi-site LAN/WAN solutions leveraging Cisco Nexus, MPLS, and BGP for large-scale enterprises.
• Implemented and led AWS and Azure cloud solutions, driving large‑scale data center‑to‑AWS/Azure migrations, landing zone design, and end‑to‑end modernization across global enterprise environments
• Designed and deployed next generation firewall architectures, Zero Trust Network Access solutions, and enterprise grade (ISE)Network Access Control platforms.
• Designed and implemented enterprise Zscaler ZIA and ZPA architectures across multi‑region environments, integrating identity, traffic steering, SSL inspection, and private‑app segmentation for 50k+ global users.
• Led end‑to‑end Zscaler transformations, including GRE/IPsec forwarding design, ZPA App Connector placement, and policy migration from legacy SWG/VPN platforms.
• Led cloud networking projects in AWS and Azure, including VPC peering, Transit Gateway, Route53, and VPN integrations.
• Coordinated cross‑functional teams across network, security, cloud, identity, and endpoint groups to ensure seamless integration and aligned delivery timelines.
• Additional responsibilities included creating/reviewing runbooks, proof of concepts, developing best practices, policies, and procedures, analyzing network and security components, network schematics including logical and physical diagrams, and monitoring and resolving network incidents. Handle Change Requests.

LANWAN Professional Network Engineer 2016-2020

• Implemented and supported EVPN/VXLAN based data center fabrics foundational to SDA/SDN architectures, enabling scalable segmentation and virtualized workloads.
• Engineered and maintained PCI DSS-compliant firewall architectures, implementing secure segmentation, access controls, and encrypted traffic flows to protect cardholder data and support audit readiness.
• Supported enterprise data centers by modernizing core switching infrastructure, boosting operational efficiency and reducing maintenance costs.
• Troubleshot SASE traffic flows end to end, correlating logs across SD WAN, Zscaler, and identity providers (Azure AD, Okta) to resolve authentication, routing, and application access issues.
• Administered Panorama device groups and templates, driving consistent configuration baselines, reducing policy drift, and accelerating change execution across distributed firewalls
• Implemented scalable DDI solution (Infoblox) to centralize IP address management, enhance visibility, and enforce compliance with PCI DSS and security protocols.
• Configured and maintained F5 load balancers and Palo Alto firewalls to support secure cloud migrations.
• Performed advanced traffic analysis using session browser, packet captures, flow logic, and threat logs to isolate and resolve complex security and connectivity issues.
• Conducted capacity planning and performance analysis across hybrid data center and cloud environments.
• Collaborated with security and application teams to integrate WAF policies and VPN solutions into enterprise workflows.
• Other activities included as needed and scheduled reports to senior management on the status of technical implementation activities, professional/technical review on LAN/WAN Professional and its overall success, monitored and working to streamline/improve the company’s standards and processes.

LANWAN Professional Network Analyst 2011-2015

• Team Member responsible for mentoring clients in administration, escalation support, installation, configuration, updates, monitoring, analysis, maintenance, and troubleshooting for the LAN/WAN infrastructure of government agencies & Fortune 500 companies.
• Configured and maintained Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switching, Juniper EX and MX switching/routing including WAN/LAN protocols and VLAN design.
• Performed traffic analysis and packet capture using Wireshark and tcpdump to troubleshoot critical outages.
• Configured and maintained routing (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS) and MPLS-based networks.
• Monitored and resolved network security incidents using tools like Splunk, Nagios and SolarWinds.
• Other activities included as needed and scheduled reports to senior management on the status of change requests, documentation of ticket & inventory management, and documenting the performance of technical and professional capabilities of clients in handling job responsibilities.

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