Summary
Tom Amon is a Senior Database Administrator with over 20 years of enterprise IT experience and more than a decade focused on production database and cloud operations. He combines deep hands-on expertise across SQL, Oracle, MongoDB, virtualization, storage, backup/DR, monitoring and datacenter engineering with practical scripting and automation skills (PowerShell, Bash, T-SQL, PL/SQL). Currently supporting Penn Medicine, Tom has recent Azure experience (AZ-900) and a track record of running hybrid on-prem/Azure environments for healthcare and life sciences organizations. He is comfortable bridging infrastructure and application teams—having owned OS, networking, security, patching and system lifecycle work alongside DBAs—and has led complex platform migrations and DR planning. Outside IT he is an active green hydrogen advocate and builds electrolyzer systems integrating PV and human-powered DC sources, showing a hands-on maker mindset and commitment to clean energy. Tom’s background in HL7 and enterprise health systems gives him domain fluency that helps translate clinical requirements into resilient, compliant database solutions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Human Anthropology, B.A., Human Anthropology at Temple University
Associates, Small Business Management, Associates, Small Business Management at Bucks County Community College
German