Aaron Dressler Design

About

Engineer, designer, musician and coffee lover. Obsessed with IT and marketing.

For more than 20 years I’ve worked both sides of small-business technology: keeping systems secure and running, and getting businesses found. Most people hire two or three vendors for that. I do it as one.

Experience
20+ years
Location
Honolulu (HST)
Serving
Hawaii + remote
Status
Taking clients
Aaron Dressler
Aaron DresslerFounder, since 2004

My story

I was born and raised outside Seattle. When I was about six, my father got a job at Microsoft, and he taught me to use the command prompt before I could ride a bike.

I built my first website in 1992 with FrontPage Express, then moved through Flash, Dreamweaver, custom PHP and C# frameworks, and WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. Along the way the work grew from websites into networks, servers, cloud infrastructure and security.

Today I run IT for a 24/7/365 food distribution network and support small businesses across Hawaii and beyond. My craft hasn’t changed: building solutions that tell a story, bring real value and put function over form.

Experience

  1. 2004 — now
    Aaron Dressler DesignFounder / owner

    Building and running the IT stack, websites and marketing for small and medium-sized businesses.

  2. 2021 — now
    Hawaii Foodservice AllianceSenior IT Systems Engineer

    Leading an IT team supporting a 24/7/365 food distribution network: systems administration, cloud architecture, design and web.

  3. 2015 — 2021
    WaveTech FinsCo-owner, Director of IT & Digital Marketing

    Patented an innovative surfboard fin and ran a multi-channel product launch across social and print.

  4. 2014 — 2017
    Jan Dressler StencilsWebsite admin & Director of Marketing

    Rebuilt a long-standing custom site on Shopify, serving 1,000+ products with worldwide shipping.

  5. 2009 — 2019
    Hawaii Paipo DesignsDirector of Marketing & Sales

    Digital marketing for a Hawaii surfboard company known for the paipo, an ancient Hawaiian bodyboard.

Platforms I work with

Hands-on experience across the systems small businesses already rely on.

Cloud & identityMicrosoft Azure · Microsoft 365 · Entra ID · Intune · Google Workspace · AWS
Security & operationsSentinelOne · Microsoft Sentinel · NinjaOne · Veeam · Azure Backup
NetworkCisco · Palo Alto Networks · Ubiquiti
Web & designWordPress + Elementor · Shopify · Adobe Illustrator · InDesign · Premiere

How I work

01

Function over form

Systems and sites that work reliably come first. Polish comes second, but it still comes.

02

Plain English

You’ll always know what I did, why it matters and what it costs, with no jargon.

03

Security in everything

From a laptop rollout to a landing page, it gets built secure and compliant from day one.

Let’s talk about your business.

Tell me what’s working, what isn’t, and where you want to be. I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help.

Get in touch