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Aaron's background was originally in the live performance and arts arena, holding a BFA in Performance Production from Cornish College of the Arts, in Seattle, WA. He began his career working in live theatre in the Pacific Northwest as a sound designer and production engineer. There he started programming show control software for automation systems and custom hardware interfaces. After building websites for various theatres as side projects, he went on to develop web applications for a variety of institutions including the Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art and Dean for America's Iowa Campaign. Shortly after his work on the Dean campaign ended, he went on to found Advomatic.

Aaron was one of the first contributing developers to the Open Source content management system (CMS), CivicSpace. Civicspace is a distribution of the powerful Drupal CMS and his work often involved parallel development for both systems. He has built a variety of integral modules for Drupal, as well as a few patches to the core system. Aaron's specialty is integrating external applications with Drupal, having done so with many broadcast email and CRM systems for a wide variety of clients.

In late 2007, Aaron took a brief leave of absence to work as the Director of Internet Technology for Senator Chris Dodd's Presidential Campaign.

At Advomatic, Aaron spends most of his time developing and running the business side of things. Always finding new ways to streamline development processes and infrastructure management tasks, he ensures that Advomatic can continue to grow at the astonishing rate it has in the past few years. Aaron also manages the specialized hosting platform Advomatic offers, which focuses on highly available, highly scalable clustered Drupal hosting.

In his spare time he scuba dives and eats fire.