Aaron Wimmer

Experience

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  Backflip Film Productions LLC

  Dec 2007 - Mar 2011

  Owner

  Backflip Film Productions LLC is a film company in Madison WI. Our specialty lies the area of commercial video production and post production. We are dedicated to delivering quality products to our clients on time and on budget. Our creative, modern shooting style and cutting edge motion graphics stand out as a theme in our work. Our productions are shot with one or more of three canon cameras (XH A1, XL1, and GL2). We have skilled freehand camera operators but are also proficient in controlled studio environments with tripods, dollies, and tracks. Our post production is completed using the Adobe Professional Production Suite but we have editors trained in Final Cut Studio as well as Avid Media Composer. Our Motion Graphics and Visual Effects are completed using After Effects and Motion. Show less

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  Nestle

  May 2008 - Aug 2008

  Operations Management Intern

  Waste reduction projects on Buitoni Pasta production lines and Tollhouse cookie dough.

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  Watlow

  Jun 2009 - Jun 2011

  Leadership Development Program

  Leadership development program included rotations through manufacturing engineering, customer account management, design engineering, and production team leadership.

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  Watlow Electric Manufacturing

  Jan 2012 - Jul 2014

  Reliability and Test Engineer

  Managed test lab and oversaw testing of new product validation for temperature sensing products. This involved working with new product development (NPD) teams to determine requirements and constructing plans for mechanical and electrical product validation including:• Accelerated Life Testing• HALT• FMEA/DRBFM• Environmental testing• Design of Experiments (DOE)• Shock / Vibration analysis• Electronics failure analysis• Physics of failureMined and analyzed field data to fit product populations to failure distributions (Weibull) in order to understand and quantify expected warranty liabilities.Primary responsibilities were focused around temperature sensing in diesel engines in both off-road and stationary applications. Show less

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  Sub-Zero Group, Inc.

  Jun 2014 - now

  Responsible for field quality of new refrigeration products representing 600M in revenue• Risk identification, test plan creation and execution• Requirement and specification creation• Component and system left testing• Planning, management, and execution of $4.7M field test programLed creation of field quality software• Created requirements and led team of internal and external resources in the creation of cloud based (Microsoft Azure) system for processing warranty and call center data.• Application and validation of machine learning models to predict product installation rates (Decision tree learning) and natural language processing.• Creation of interactive visuals (PowerBI) to allow widespread analysis of field performance for all products Show less Responsible for reliability of a wide range OEM appliances (steam ovens, icemakers, induction cooktops, microwaves, espresso machines, etc.)New Product Development• Development of reliability test plans• Fixture design• National instruments LabVIEW programmingProduct Support• Development of ongoing reliability testing (ORT)• Analysis of warranty data• Development of models for automated text mining• Fitting failures to statistical models to drive down warranty costs and improve development testing Show less

  • Reliability Engineering Manager

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Senior Project Engineer

    Jan 2020 - Mar 2024

  • Senior Reliability Engineer

    Jan 2017 - Dec 2020

  • Reliability Engineer

    Jun 2014 - Jan 2017