Aaron is an avid animal-lover, but what sets him apart from other dog trainers is his education and experience in the field. Aaron started working with dogs in 2013 and graduated from UC Berkeley with Honors in 2014 with a psychology degree. During Undergrad, he spent much of his time working as a research assistant in a lab focused on animal behavior and cognition. He was then selected to be a part of a research team for Cambridge and Zurich Universities in the Kalahari desert in South Africa to study wild animal behavior for a year. Afterwards, Aaron returned to the lab at UC Berkeley and studied many different aspects of dog behavior. 

Aaron attended Texas Tech University and obtained a Masters degree in Companion Animal Science in 2018, with a focus on Animal Behavior and Training, Human-Animal Interaction, and Canine Separation Anxiety. His publication from his graduate work can be found here (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1558787820300460). He then returned home to the Bay Area and attended the Michael Ellis dog training school.

Afterwards, he joined the San Francisco SPCA as their Shelter Behavior Manager. For two years, he managed a progressive team responsible for assessing and training shelter dogs, and taught staff, public, and volunteers about dog behavior and training. He also consulted with many shelters across the nation on best practices for working with shelter dog behavior. You can watch some of the videos he made for SF SPCA on youtube and on their website. During his time at SF SPCA, he worked closely with leading Veterinary Behaviorists Dr. Jeannine Berger and Dr. Wailani Sung, creating and implementing weekly behavior plans for the shelter dogs with problem behaviors in an effort to make them adoptable and increase adoptability.

In January 2022, Aaron became a Board-Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist (ACAAB).