Aaron Collier, 36 Enjoying a career in geosciences and engineering years and I married a local girl, and she has family here, so it pretty much feels aron Collier is vice president of Collier like I’m a home boy,” Aaron said. “I’m Consulting, a Stephenville-based firm the oldest of three boys and we all married local girls.” that specializes in geosciences and Aaron’s wife is Amy and they have engineering. three kids, Aiden, 10, Allie, eight, and “We also have offices in Austin, Adalyn, three. Houston, Waco and Wisconsin, and we He graduated from Stephenville High work all over Texas and abroad,” Aaron said. “A lot of our work deals with water School in 2000 then went to Texas A&M University for two years, “thinking I was and water resources, but we do a fair going to be a doctor, but decided it wasn’t amount of other types of work; civil and for me. environmental engineers, and locally we “Then I got engaged to my wife who do slab design, curb and gutter, drainage studies, environmental engineering for the had gone to UT thinking she was going to be a pharmacist like her father, but she dairy industry and so forth.” While he wasn’t born here – his family ended up being a teacher like her mother. We got married while we were in college moved to Stephenville in 1994. and moved back here and finished up “I was in junior high then. My father at Tarleton. I got an undergrad degree was a professor at TSU for a number of By Michael Ross
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Aaron Collier, vice president of Collier Consulting, which specializes in geoscience and engineering. in geology from TSU, then went to graduate school in San Antonio for two years at UTSA and got my masters in hydrogeology.” Asked what drew him to this field he said, “My parents — who started this company – are in science, so I grew up being exposed to it all my life and always had an interest in science.” In terms of hobbies, Aaron said he doesn’t have much time for them. “Not much time for hobbies with work
and my wife and kids – that takes up just about all my time,” he said with a laugh. “Although we do fantasy football here at work and I did a fantasy football thing this year with my son, who plays flag football. It was a father-son fantasy football league, and that was a lot of fun.” Aaron is also involved in his church, the Graham Street Church of Christ.