Tom Grundner Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Working as the Senior Test Technician on the Simon security panels. The Simon product line included the Simon EMEA (our first European panel that received CE / EN certification), Simon XT, Simon XTi and Simon XT5. Senior Test Technician for New Product Development, Sustaining Engineering and Value Engineering.• Using Hewlett-Packard Application Lifecycle Management Quality Center application to record firmware releases, create and organize tests in Test Plan section, track results in Test Lab section, and record problems in Defect section, allowing Project Management to track progress. • Identify problems, documenting observations and results, determine potential solutions. When the fixes were implemented, verified the problem was corrected, and document the resolution.

Arden Hills, Minnesota

Tested newly developed security products, creatively, and ensured reliability and compliance with internal and regulatory requirements, including UL, CE, and NFPA. Wrote detailed reports on problems found while testing, and verified engineers corrected problems. Served as principal tester for Concord 4 panel from design to initial release.• Tested newly developed home security panels, verifying appropriate software according to specifications, and ensuring panel in compliance with regulatory requirements.

Roseville, Minnesota

• Lead test technician (Supervised 5 analysts) for Comten Monthly Verification Testing, duties included performing tests on Comten Software, generate Software Verification Problem Reports for failed tests.• Maintained test guides, test generation files and test file libraries. Maintained equipment and floor space on the test side portion of the computer center. Created UNIX scripts for automatic job submittal and verification.• Created and used tracking documents in MS Excel and MS Word, which were designed to track results and improve efficiency.