Aaron is Senior Technical Performance Engineer with 9 years’ experience in thermodynamic modeling of aero and industrial gas turbines, utility and industrial boilers, and large-scale HVAC systems. He graduated Central Connecticut State University in December 2009 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Aaron started his career in grad school at the University of Hartford developing a design tool to optimize ground and air source heat pump systems for the U.S Department of Energy. Aaron worked at GE Power for 3 years where he lead natural gas conversion and co-firing evaluation studies, developed prototype program capable of detecting and quantify performance impact of soot blower activation, lead global team integrating boiler and steam turbine design software into a single sliding pressure simulation tool, and developed standardized nomenclature and automated tools to map customer data to models and analytics. In his current position at MTU Aero Engines he has developed automated engine data filtering and measurement replacement tool written in NPSS, developed wrapper for NPSS, enabling embedding engine simulations into Python applications, developed prototype Python program capable of running NPSS with real time test stand data, and supports various NPSS modeling and analysis tasks supporting MTU Aero Engines/Pratt & Whitney NGPF Performance Improvement Development.

Aaron has been active with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Starting in college leading the CCSU ASME Student Section where he actively built community within the engineering school and attracted speakers to share their experience with students at ‘Learn and Lunches’. He won second place in the North East Region of the Old Guard Oral Competition. Upon graduation he went on to lead the ASME Hartford Section as Chair as well as leading the Engineers’ Night Awards program. As Engineers’ Night Chair, Aaron lead a team for 5 years that increased attendance by a factor of four, recruited prominent public figures and government officials to attend and speak at the event, increased event sponsorship, and produced videos sharing the stories of the honorees and promoting the program