Transparent Leadership. Dedicated B2B Technical Governance.
The CDRTek Leadership Standard: We believe that outsourced IT requires absolute transparency. Our leadership team brings decades of combined hands-on experience across infrastructure architecture, enterprise cloud migrations, and managed cybersecurity defense. By viewing the modern threat landscape from distinct strategic, architectural, operational, and tactical viewpoints, we work cohesively to keep mid-sized organizations fast, secure, and fully compliant.
Executive Leadership Team
Cliff Aycock | CEO / Managing Partner
- Title: CEO / Managing Partner
- Core Focus: Corporate Security Strategy, Infrastructure Project Management, Risk Mitigation, Operations Governance
- Biography: Cliff Aycock is the CEO and Managing Partner of CDRTek, steering the company’s strategic growth, cybersecurity initiatives, and operational excellence. An Air Force veteran, Cliff brings the military-grade precision, risk mitigation strategy, and disciplined leadership forged during his service straight to the commercial IT sector. With a deep technical background, spanning over 30 years, rooted in physical and virtual systems administration, he treats modern cybersecurity threats not just as IT issues, but as core business risks. Cliff focuses on deploying comprehensive security postures that eliminate technical debt, satisfy strict insurance underwriting rules, and ensure small and mid-sized businesses throughout the Atlanta metro are completely hardened against sophisticated social engineering and perimeter threats.
David Hampson | Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
- Title: Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
- Core Focus: Enterprise Security Engineering, High-Density Wi-Fi Deployment, Perimeter Edge Defense, Threat Vector Identification
- Biography: David Hampson serves as the Chief Technology Officer at CDRTek, bringing over three decades of technical elite expertise as a former founder, owner, and operator of a successful IT Managed Service Provider. David directs the engineering lifecycle, technical security blueprints, and technological roadmaps for CDRTek’s mid-market and enterprise clients. He specializes in identifying architectural threat vectors, designing high-density wireless systems with advanced encryption standards, and configuring zero-trust network edge perimeters leveraging Cisco, Meraki, and Ubiquiti UniFi ecosystems. Deeply specialized in hospitality and commercial real estate, David engineers hardened network segmentations to safely isolate corporate data and property management software (PMS) from public vulnerabilities. Outside of the data center, David is a licensed private pilot, bringing the same rigorous checklist discipline, situational awareness, and split-second emergency threat mitigation required in aviation straight to securing critical corporate data networks.
Larry Strott | Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- Title: Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- Core Focus: Operational Defense Excellence, Security KPI Alignment, Compliance & IT Budget Optimization, Insider Threat Mitigation
- Biography: Larry Strott is the Chief Operating Officer at CDRTek, overseeing the firm’s daily operational execution, security compliance delivery, and corporate governance. With over 20 years of hands-on experience in the information technology sector, Larry is a devoted client success advocate who ensures cybersecurity execution directly aligns with business outcomes. He views human error and operational workflow gaps as critical modern threat vectors, helping clients balance their IT security budgets with defensive tools like security awareness training and privilege access management (PAM). By translating complex cybersecurity jargon into actionable common sense, Larry helps clients analyze security KPIs, fulfill regulatory audit standards, and achieve continuous data protection without bottlenecking daily corporate productivity. An avid outdoorsman, Larry spends his time away from operations immersed in nature and fishing, bringing a grounded, clear-headed perspective to the fast-paced world of technology management.
Mike Daniell | Service Director
- Title: Service Director
- Core Focus: Help Desk Security Operations, Live Threat Interception, Medical & AEC Industry Compliance, Managed Endpoint Protection (EDR)
- Biography: Mike Daniell is the Service Director at CDRTek, orchestrating daily help desk security operations, engineering dispatch, and proactive threat interception. With more than 20 years of elite engineering experience in the IT industry, Mike actively monitors the modern threat landscape, analyzing real-time endpoint vulnerabilities, phishing variants, and ransomware execution patterns to build custom, defensive solutions. He is a master at resource allocation, seamlessly delegating complex project workflows and managed detection and response (MDR) sweeps across our internal team. Mike possesses a deep, specialized understanding of the rigid workflow implementation and strict data security compliance needs unique to the Medical (HIPAA) and Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC/CMMC) industries, ensuring that every technician under his leadership maintains an unyielding focus on data isolation and network protection.
Align Your Infrastructure with Elite Technical Partners
Ensure your business infrastructure is managed by a team with comprehensive engineering execution capabilities. Let’s match our 105 technical service lines and multi-angled cybersecurity defense model to your core business objectives.
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