Summary
John Pauwels is a seasoned Database Administrator with 8 years of hands-on experience building, tuning, and securing SQL Server environments across Windows, Unix, and cloud platforms. He currently maintains SQL Server 2016-2022 at CareSource, develops ETL pipelines with SSIS, and oversees SSRS/Power BI on-premise reporting, with a focus on performance and high availability. In prior senior roles at Ferrilli, Ellucian, and educational institutions, he has led migrations, disaster recovery planning, and HA deployments, including managing 150+ databases in hybrid on-prem/cloud ecosystems. His career spans system administration and database engineering across enterprise and higher-education settings, with AWS virtualization, capacity planning, and security management as core strengths. He holds a BBA in Computer Information Management from Northwood University and an AS in Computer Programming from Delta College, and is based in Algonquin, Illinois.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science, Computer Programming, Associate of Science, Computer Programming at Delta College
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Computer Information Management, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Computer Information Management at Northwood University