John Pears
- Role
- Manager Network Engineering at Sirva
- Location
- Elgin, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About John Pears
A Network Engineering Professional who is well organized, self-starting and…
Experience
Manager Network Engineering
Dec 2007 — Present
Senior Network Engineer and Manager responsible for the day-to-day design, support and maintenance of a Global network for multiple locations in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia/New Zealand and Asia Pacific. Excellent working knowledge of technologies used in our network including Spanning Tree, BGP, MPLS and emerging technologies. Instrumental in firewall setup and configuration. Setup, configured and upgraded ASA/PIX firewalls and migrated Windows based firewalls to ASA/PIX. Instrumental in the Enterprise Wireless setup that provides a segregated guest network and authenticated LAN access over Wi-Fi. Exceptional capability to troubleshoot and resolve highly complex problems across a broad range of technologies while acting as a focal point to assist others in achieving problem resolution. Excellent communication skills and excellent ability to develop rapport with other teams. Had key roles in various data center consolidations and integrations – the most substantial of which included the consolidations of the Westmont, Ft. Wayne and Cleveland data centers into the Ft. Wayne data center. Responsible for day-to-day maintenance of SolarWinds for monitoring of up/down events and for daily configuration backup. I address outages and work with vendors and users as needed to get things back up and running as soon as possible to minimize downtime. Had key roles in various office moves. Built replacement networks with a goal to minimize downtime and disruption for users after the move. Developed and implemented plans for integration of remote sites into the main network. Instrumental in the implementation and day-to-day management and support of ForeScout CounterAct and CounterAct Edge products which provide Network Access Control and Threat Prevention capabilities (intrusion detection and prevention). Also instrumental in the setup and day-to-day management of Websense for web filtering
Skills
- Vmware Esx
- Wi-Fi
- Bgp
- Computer Hardware
- Forescout Counteract
- Vendor Management
- Enterprise Architecture
- Forescout Counteract Edge
- Network Engineering
- Cisco Routing & Switching
- Firewalls
- Cisco Nexus
- Software Installation
- Hardware
- Pix
- Wireless Networking
- Wireless
- Citrix
- Switches
- Infrastructure
- Network Architecture
- Help Desk Support
- Voip
- Wifi
- Cisco Technologies
- Integration
- Technical Support
- Wan
- Mpls
- Asa
- Cisco Secure
- Cisco Ios
- Cisco Routers
- Routers
- Software Documentation
- Dhcp
- Data Center
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