Karl Allen Swelling

Karl Allen Swelling has a diverse work experience spanning over several years. Karl Allen is currently working at ProAssurance as Manager of IT Infrastructure Engineering, where they oversee the system and storage infrastructure, backup and recovery infrastructure, colo and cloud infrastructure, and the staff supporting these environments. In this role, they migrated the backup environment to new platforms and consolidated non-hyper-converged storage. Prior to this, Karl worked at McWane, Inc. as a Senior IT Infrastructure Architect. Karl Allen also served as a member of the Energen Transition Team at Diamondback Energy Inc. following their acquisition of Energen.

Karl had a long tenure at Energen, where their roles included Manager of IT Infrastructure and Unix Systems Engineer III. In these positions, they were responsible for various aspects of the company's IT infrastructure, including systems, storage, databases, firewalls, and PCs. Karl Allen led a project team to separate Alagasco from Energen and transformed data centers into hyper-converged enterprise cloud platforms. Additionally, they implemented and maintained virtualized landscapes, internet security systems, and backup solutions.

Earlier in their career, Karl worked as a Senior Network Engineer at BBVA in the USA. Karl Allen also had a role as a Substitute Technology Coordinator at Mountain Brook Schools, where they filled in for the local technology coordinator and assisted with the implementation of Windows for Workgroups and NetWare.

Overall, Karl Allen Swelling has a strong background in IT infrastructure management, with experience in various industries and a track record of successful project implementation and transformation.

Karl Allen Swelling completed their education with a high school diploma as the valedictorian from Midfield High School in 1992. Karl Allen then pursued higher education at Birmingham-Southern College, where they obtained a Bachelor of Science degree. During their time at Birmingham-Southern College, they majored in Accounting and minored in Computer Science from 1992 to 1996.

In addition to their formal education, Karl Allen Swelling also obtained a certification as an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in August 2019.