Chimp Software LLC is a MicroISV based in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of the beautiful and drizzly city of Seattle, Washington. Chimp Software creates and sells iRooster, the innovative alarm clock for Mac OS X. It also has several unannounced products in various stages of development. As the MicroISV moniker would imply, Chimp Software is not a large company. On the contrary, it consists of exactly one person: Aaron Brethorst.

Aaron Brethorst - who hates writing in the third person, but really has no choice here - is a professional software developer, and writes shareware just for fun in his spare time. Aaron was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and currently resides in Seattle, Washington. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities with a B.S. in Computer Science. Aaron's undergraduate emphasis was in Human-Computer Interaction, which is why he is so hung up on iRooster's user interface and general usability.

Aaron has worked for a number of companies since he was old enough to seek gainful employment. At the age of 14 he started a sole proprietorship in Minneapolis, MN to do computer repair work. At the age of 16, he spent three months slaving away at Office Max trying to convince customers that it really was in their best interest not to buy the Packard Bell machine they were interested in, and no, he really was not on commission.

After Office Max, Aaron worked for the Geek Squad, which has since spread to seemingly every Best Buy in North America. He still proudly carries his official badge even today, which declares him to be Rookie Agent #63.

Having spent two years at the Geek Squad, Aaron began to branch out into more software development work. He worked for a small salon in Minneapolis doing web programming and custom applications development while going to the University of Minnesota.

The web programming gig was enjoyable, but couldn't possibly compare to the experience of working on Office 2004 for the Mac at Microsoft during the Summer of 2002. Aaron has always and will always love the experience of working on rich client software.

After graduation, Aaron worked at Honeywell for a while doing UI design work and prototyping applications with the .NET Framework and C#. Today, Aaron works in the Seattle area as a User Experience Program Manager. He really enjoys it.