Gary Nichols Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca

• Performed feature test for Wireless FIPS on the Cisco 3850 Controller.• Automated aspects of Wireless FIPS testing including Wireshark capture and analysis.• Managed and tested automated system test beds for the Cisco 3850 wireless controller.• Debugged and reproduce failures for both code and script failures.• File and document bugs found while testing.• Maintained scripts and make changes to test scripts to address code changes and additional test requirements.

Thousand Oaks. Ca

San Jose, Ca

• Successfully troubleshot and tested fixes for RSTP on the Brocade Fabric Ethernet switch • Successfully tested L2 Multicast for the Brocade Fabric Ethernet switch • Successfully tested OSPF for the Brocade chassis based Fabric Ethernet switch • Wrote the automation test plan and automated OSPF Virtual link for the Brocade Fabric Ethernet switches • Wrote test plan and tested VRF for the Brocade Fabric Ethernet switch • Automated manual test plan for VRF and added additional stress cases to automated test which were able to ferret out additional software/hardware failures.

Manager Development Test for Nexus 7000 • Tested various features and protocols which were behind schedule to put them back on track to be released on schedule. • Managed a group of 15 Dev. Test Engineers • Responsible for all Layer 2 features for Nexus 7000 next generation data center switch • Successfully released 3 major release and numerous maintenance releases • Tested OSPF, and VRF on the Nexus platform. • Actively involved with customer deployments and issues • Developed automation testing skills within a group that had never done any automation • Responsible for moving the whole Dev. Test organization to TIMS for test case tracking • Responsible for ISO compliance and audits within the Dev. Test organization • Successfully migrated the team from Catalyst 6000 to Nexus 7000 Manager Development Test Catalyst 6000 • Managed and developed a group of Dev. Test Engineers, most of which I retained for 10 + years. • Responsible for the testing efforts of POE, Layer 2, and Layer 3 features for the Catalyst 6000 • Tested various L2 and L3 features • Successfully released Numerous releases • Actively involved with customer deployments and issues • Tested various features to meet different development requirements • Successfully migrated the team from CatOS testing to IOS testing for the Catalyst 6000 Manager Development Test Catalyst 5000 • Managed a group of Dev. Test Engineers • Responsible for the testing Layer 2 features such as Spanning tree, LACp, CDP, Port Channel and many more features for the Catalyst 5000 • Successfully managed the released of numerous releases • Actively involved with customer deployments and issues • Successfully migrated the team from Catalyst 5000 testing to Catalyst 6000 Testing