184. What Makes Biopharma IT So Unique with Matthew Dawson

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Matthew Dawson Matthew Dawson is the Senior Director of IT at a biopharma company in the Dallas area. The biopharma space is uniquely different from his past experiences, especially because there is a lot of compliance. They have much more to deal with in terms of government processes and regulations. What Makes Biopharma IT So Unique with Matthew Dawson Matthew is a seasoned IT leader with a track record of successfully building teams that deliver solutions to enable the business. Even after decades working in this field, he still finds IT work interesting—especially in the biopharma industry where cybersecurity is of the utmost importance.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another podcast of dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:14.1	Today we've got Matt Dawson, who is the senior director of IT.
0:19.6	Hey, Matt, would you like to tell us a little bit about who you are and what you do and where you work?
0:24.9	Sure, Mike.
0:25.7	Thanks for having me on, first of all.
0:28.3	I a little bit about myself.
0:30.2	I've been in IT for about three decades now.
0:33.3	I'm living here in North Texas for about 20 of those three decades for about 20 years.
0:39.3	And I'm a senior director, like you said, a biopharma company here in the Dallas area.
0:46.0	And I've been it for a number of years now.
0:49.3	And it's always interesting.
0:52.4	You know, I saw that biopharma, and I wondered a little about that.
0:57.5	Would you tell me what that's like?
0:59.4	How's that different than what everybody thinks of just as the regular tech and director of IT?
1:06.1	What does that bring to your world that I probably don't see in transportation?
1:11.6	Yeah, it's good question. It is way different. You know, I started back in IT back a long time ago.
1:17.6	Never thought I'd be in this place I'm right now. But in biofarm, it's biological pharmaceuticals.
1:23.6	So they do actually have some places where they test and have big hazard signs up.
1:27.7	But it's a little different than my past experience because in this job, we actually have manufacturing, distribution, as well as the regular IT.
1:35.9	I say regular, you know, typical office stuff.
1:37.9	We also deal with government entities and things of that nature.
1:41.3	So there's a thing like serialization of the product,
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