Professional Profile

Aaron Dawson is an Account Executive for Varrow, with 10+ years of IT experience. For the past 8 years Aaron served in the senior technology and operations leadership role for a $1.8B regional community bank in North Carolina. During this time, the bank grew over 300% through acquisitions and organic growth. A focus on technology as an enabler helped the bank's IT organization remain lean while the organization grew at a tremendous rate. Most recent accomplishments include successful design and implementation of a virtualization-based backup, recovery, and archive strategy which enabled the bank to increase overall processing capacity, improve recovery time and recovery point objectives, decrease data center footprint, and decrease overall datacenter cost of ownership by 20%. Prior to working with the bank, Aaron served in multiple technology roles including sales, project management, and network design consulting for a predictive outbound telephony dialer for international Fortune 500 companies.

Career / Education / Certifications / Awards

Varrow
Account Executive
(2010 - Current)

Southern Community Bank and Trust
Senior Vice President,
Director of Technology and Operations
(2003 - 2010)

NetUnlimited/Divine, Inc
Account Executive
Project Manager
Sales Engineer
(1999 - 2003)

Appalachian State University - CIS/Marketing, B.S.B.A. (1999)

Wake Forest University - MBA (2006)

Technical Leadership Expertise

IT Governance - Authored and maintained SOX IT controls and IT budget methodologies for a highly-regulated financial services organization.

Backup and Disaster Recovery - Over the past three years, completely redesigned and implemented BURA strategy that matched business service levels to appropriate and attainable RPO and RTO metrics.

Information Security - Served as information security officer for a highly regulated financial services organization. Recent focus on social engineering and data loss prevention - DLP.

Virtualization - Led efforts to 100% consolidate all Windows and Linux servers using VMware. Developed enterprise virtualization strategy to extend virtualization beyond the datacenter.

Infrastructure - Effectively maintained 29 offices and two data centers using best in class technologies from Cisco, EMC, VMware, and IBM.