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Aaron is a senior undergraduate student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Utah State University. Aaron is the Team Lead for the 2009 Chimera project, and is responsible for organizing and coordinating the rocket team's design, testing, and production efforts. He also coordinates documentation and presentations for the USLI competition, manages solid modeling, and serves as the team's graphic designer. Aaron has been working for the NASA Product Operations division of the Defense Contract Management Agency since 2006. Since that time, he has received three major awards for the institution and development of management systems within his Contract Management Office (CMO), which consequently became the first CMO in the nation to receive a perfect score on its Management Review.