Editor’s Note: This is one of a series of vlogs created by our current MSBA/MSIS students. You can see the full series here

Follow Aaron on his first week as an MSIS graduate student at the David Eccles School of Business. He talks about how he ended up in the program, his background, and some of his favorite places to hike in Utah.

Aaron has studied Business Administration, Information Technology, and Management Information Science, earning his BA from Jamestown College (now called University of Jamestown) in North Dakota. No stranger to the corporate world of Information Systems, he has worked as a software Business Intelligence Consultant, an analyst for the Royal Bank of Scotland, a Business Intelligence Developer, and is currently a Data Analyst for a Silicon Slopes company, Xactware. Aaron comes to the Eccles School with more than 12 years of experience in IT, primarily in Business Intelligence and reporting systems. He is continuing his education and started the Master of Science in Information Systems program at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business in August 2021.