Tom Larimer

Senior Hardware Technician/Test Engineer

Elgin, Illinois, United States

About

Specialties: Electronic Test Design

Experience

  • Design Assurance Technician at First Alert
    Apr 2022 - Jun 2022 · 3 mos

    Performed design verification testing on new 8th edition design of smoke/CO detectors. This included both smoke, CO and UL testing.

  • Quality Assurance Technician at Siemens Industry Inc.
    Mar 2010 - Feb 2020 · 10 yrs

    Designed life test set-ups for damper actuators and auto-zero modules. Designed incoming inspection fixture & test of gas release solenoid valves for Sinorex tanks. Outgoing auditing of smoke detectors including ionization, photo, and thermal detectors; auditing of detectors included functional testing as well as inspection. Outgoing inspection of modules used in fire detection panels; inspection included insertion into panel to check firmware revision levels.

  • H/W Test Engineer I/Senior Hardware Technician at Siemens Building Technologies
    Feb 1999 - Jun 2009 · 10 yrs 5 mos

    Wrote test specifications, procedures and reports for qualifying new components and testing new designs. Designed and built automated test set-ups using LabVIEW. Pulled orderable part numbers and set up documentation for custom solutions. Laid out, built and tested prototypes of new designs.

  • Senior Engineering Technician at Pollak and Skan
    Apr 1994 - Dec 1998 · 4 yrs 9 mos

    Contract Positions with: LaMarche, Baxter Healthcare, Zebra Technologies Corp., Honeywell Inc., Siemens Medical Systems, Inc. Duties included prototype board layout and building, test fixture design, building, testing and documentation, validation testing and PC board troubleshooting to component level using DMM, capacitance meter, and oscilloscope.

  • Senior Engineering Technician at Oxford and Associates
    Jun 1995 - Jun 1996 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Contract positions with: Digital Appliance Controls Duties consisted of conducting UL qualification testing on appliance controls and analysis of the failures. Testing included FMEA opens and shorts, fast transient burst, line surge, etc.