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Ivan McClary

@ivanmcclary

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I build secure, resilient enterprise networks across cloud, data center, and branch environments.

United States

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At Ikons, I design and support enterprise routing, switching, firewall, wireless, and hybrid-cloud environments across Cisco, Palo Alto, Meraki, AWS, Azure, and GCP. I troubleshoot routing, firewall, MTU, and cloud-gateway bottlenecks while coordinating triage across network, security, compute, and cloud teams.

Previously at VectorUSA and LANWAN Professional, I led network and zero-trust initiatives for government, Fortune 500, and maritime clients, including converting 150+ ASA rules to modern policies and reducing attack surface by 65%. I bring more than 14 years of hands-on experience with routing, data center fabrics, SD-WAN, SASE, wireless, firewalls, and mission-critical 24/7 operations.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Network Engineer

Current

Ikons

Jan 2026 - Present (8 months)

Designed and supported enterprise routing, switching, and firewall environments across Cisco, Palo Alto, and Meraki platforms. Implemented VRFs, BGP/OSPF, VLAN segmentation, ACLs, and high-availability routing architectures.

Cisco Palo Alto Meraki BGP OSPF VLAN ACLs IPSEC FTD Firepower NAT VPN Cisco FMC Cloud Networking

Network Engineer III

VectorUSA

Jan 2024 - Jan 2026 (2 years)

Senior Network Engineer handling a team of Network Engineers maintaining VectorUSA's top client Long Beach Container Terminal's network and systems infrastructure. Designed and implemented Cisco routing/switching solutions using BGP in micro-segment VRF environment with Fortinet SD-WAN fabric.

Cisco BGP VRFs Fortinet SD WAN Cisco DNA Center Cisco 9800 Palo Alto Panorama FortiGate Zero Trust Solarwinds Splunk Azure AWS

Senior Network Engineer

Lan Wan Professional

Jan 2021 - Jan 2024 (3 years)

Provided customer-facing engineering support for government and Fortune 500 clients, leading end-to-end investigations across routing, security, DNS, cloud networking, and distributed systems. Deployed and managed SD-WAN overlays (Cisco Viptela) and Palo Alto NGFWs, Panorama, GlobalProtect, and Prisma Access.

Viptela SD WAN Palo Alto Panorama Global Protect VPN Prisma Access SASE Zscaler Zscaler ZIA ZPA AWS VPC Transit Gateway Route 53 VPN Segmentation

Network Engineer

Lan Wan Professional

Jan 2016 - Jan 2020 (4 years)

Implemented and supported EVPN/VXLAN-based data center fabrics foundational to SDA/SDN architectures. Built and maintained ISE authorization policies, profiling rules, and RADIUS attributes for corporate and guest wireless networks.

EVPN VXLAN SDA SDN Cisco ISE RADIUS Cisco FTD Firepower SASE SD WAN Zscaler Info Blox DDI Wireshark Splunk

Network Analyst

Lan Wan Professional

Jan 2011 - Jan 2015 (4 years)

Team member responsible for mentoring clients in administration, escalation support, installation, configuration, updates, monitoring, analysis, maintenance, and troubleshooting for LAN/WAN infrastructure of government agencies and Fortune 500 companies. Configured and maintained Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switching, Juniper EX and MX switching/routing including WAN/LAN protocols and VLAN design.