Aidan Manning

Aidan Manning

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  • About me

    Associate Director Corporate Networks at King

  • Education

    • CSN

      1991 - 1993
      Music, Sound Production, Management

      Music Production and management

    • Ashton

      1989 - 1990
    • Ballincollig Community School

      1981 - 1988
    • Cork Institute of Technology

      2011 - 2012
      CCNP Cisco Networking Academy

      Cisco networking academy

  • Experience

    • Hormann Electronics

      Jul 1991 - Apr 1993
      Lead Operator

      Lead Operator on AST and Apple system manufacture and test.

    • Motorola

      Jan 1996 - Jan 1999
      Network Engineer

      Manage Cisco Catalyst switching network

    • Optus

      Jan 2000 - Jun 2000
      Network Engineer

      Network configuration for C&W internet customers. Configuring BGP and leased lines on Cisco backbone.

    • EMC

      Jan 2001 - Jan 2003
      Senior Internet Engineer

      Managed and supported the network infrastructure for the ISG (Internet Solutions Group) Webhosting centre.

    • CorkBIC

      Apr 2003 - Apr 2007
      IT Manager

      Managed all IT and infrastructure for the National Software Centre, Cork, Ireland. www.corkbic.iewww.nsc-campus.com

    • EMC

      Apr 2007 - Jan 2011
      Senior Network Engineer

      Senior network engineer in the SMS Shared Infrastrucure Services team. Deal primarily with remote managed services, managing the EMC remote data centres that support the RMS and SMS divisions.

    • Strencom

      Jan 2011 - Sept 2013

      Responsible for the management and growth of the Strencom NOC team. Providing industry leading customer service along with implementation & support of complex WAN, MPLS and private cloud network solutions. Key contributor to attaining ISO27001 certification.http://www.strencom.net Responsible for implementation & support of complex WAN, MPLS and private cloud network solutions.

      • NOC Manager

        Apr 2013 - Sept 2013
      • Senior Network Engineer

        Jan 2011 - Apr 2013
    • Colt Technology Services

      Sept 2013 - Dec 2014
      Lead Engineer Network Support

      Lead Engineer Network Support at Colt Technology Services.I provide second and third level technical support services to customer solutions across a wide range of technologies including Cisco IOS, Cisco Nexus, Cisco ASA & PIX Firewalls, Checkpoint firewalls, Juniper Firewalls, Netfilter Firewalls, Fortigate Firewalls, F5 BigIP Loadbalancers and MPLS

    • King

      Jan 2015 - now

      Responsible for all network connectivity for a global company including constant improvement of a cutting edge network.WiFi, switching, routing, video conferencing, inter-office connectivity over MPLS & VPN, network access security with Forescout and Cisco ISE. Managing the corporate network team, mentoring and project management.Multi vendor expertise including Cisco, Arista, Palo Alto, BlueJeans, etc.. Just started in a Network Engineer role at King.. Looks like it's going to be a fun job! So far so great!

      • Associate Director Corporate Networks

        May 2020 - now
      • Network Manager

        Jan 2018 - May 2020
      • Network Engineer

        Jan 2015 - Jan 2018
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • VCP VMware vSphere 5

      VMware
      Mar 2013
    • CCNP Cisco Certified Networking Professional

      Cisco
      Jul 2011
    • CCIE Written

      Cisco
      May 2014