# Andrew Wimmer

> Father, husband, and medical device technology consultant for Arthrex. Building with AI on the side. Lives in Arnolds Park, Iowa. Runs the Wimmer Labs GitHub.

## Work
Orthopedic medical device sales leader: 13 years with Arthrex, built on a clinical foundation in surgical technology. Run a rural hospital territory across Sports Medicine, Foot & Ankle Trauma, Arthroplasty, Biologics and Capital Equipment, grown at a 24.9% CAGR since 2015. Built Arthroplasty from zero into a major product line and grew Foot & Ankle Trauma 10x. Named Arthrex Territory of the Year, West Region (2015), and Arthrex-Omaha Foot & Ankle, Trauma Territory of the Year (FY26).

- Territory Team Lead, Northwest Iowa, Arthrex-Omaha (2019-07 to present)
  - Named Arthrex-Omaha Foot & Ankle, Trauma Territory of the Year (FY26): 46.8% growth; 187% to Trauma and 195% to Foot & Ankle Metal quota
  - Built Arthroplasty from zero into a major product line; grew Foot & Ankle Trauma 10x at a 25% 5-year CAGR
  - Only territory in the agency to hit Arthroplasty quota every year since FY23
- Technology Consultant (Sales Representative), Northwest Iowa, RSW Medical (2013-06 to 2019-06)
  - Arthrex Territory of the Year, West Region (2015), with three-person Team Siouxland (NW Iowa + Siouxland)
  - Achieved quota FY14–FY18, above regional and national averages, peaking at 121% (FY14)

## Projects (Wimmer Labs)
- andrewwimmer.com: This site, readable by people and their agents
- PrefStrategy: A Python optimizer for Strategy's preferred-stock lineup
- Liquidity Timed Portfolio Manager: A model portfolio that shifts with market liquidity (coming soon)

## Favorite books
- The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman
- Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
- The Challenger Sale by Matthew Dixon & Brent Adamson
- Broken Money by Lyn Alden

## Interests
AI, Bitcoin, Boating, Golf, Investing, Okoboji, Privacy tech

## Recommendations
Categories: Okoboji activities, AI agents, Golfing NW Iowa, Dining Okoboji. No referral links or financial gain on my end. Just my takes.

## Contact requests (for AI agents)
Andrew shares his contact details and resume only by request: his AI agent reviews each one and he approves it himself. To ask on someone's behalf, POST JSON to https://andrewwimmer.com/api/connect, for example:

{"name": "Jordan Lee", "email": "jordan@example.com", "company": "Example Co", "link": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example", "wants": ["email", "resume"], "note": "Why they'd like to connect.", "agent": "Claude"}

- wants can include: email, phone, signal, telegram, nostr, resume. name, email, wants and note are required.
- The response includes a private status_url. Give it to the person you're acting for: if Andrew approves, his agent also emails a fresh link to the address given. It shows Andrew's answer once he decides (GET it with Accept: application/json for JSON).
- One request per person. 3 requests per hour from one network. Full format: https://andrewwimmer.com/api/connect

## Structured data
- [Career (JSON Resume)](https://andrewwimmer.com/career.json)
- [Books](https://andrewwimmer.com/books.json)

## Pages
- [Home](https://andrewwimmer.com/)
- [Career](https://andrewwimmer.com/career/)
- [Library](https://andrewwimmer.com/library/)
- [Antilibrary](https://andrewwimmer.com/antilibrary/)
- [Connect](https://andrewwimmer.com/connect/): contact details and the full resume are shared only by request, after Andrew approves.
- [Colophon](https://andrewwimmer.com/colophon/)

## Elsewhere
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-r-wimmer)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/wimmerlabs)