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Bill Hirsch

Principal Solution Architect
Red Hat
Country or state 
United States (Pennsylvania)
Available to 
North America
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Languages 
English
Volunteer:
Yes

Personal Details

Bio

Bill has been working in IT for 20+ years as a Linux/Unix Systems Administrator, Enterprise Architect, and prior to joining Red Hat, served as a Director of Infrastructure at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

In his current role as a Principal Solution Architect at Red Hat, Bill travels the northeastern US speaking with Red Hat customers about the value of open source, cloud technologies, automation, and IT modernization. In addition, Bill is a regular speaker at conferences, an author, and an active participant in the open source community.

Current position (1)

Principal Solution Architect

Red Hat

Degrees (1)
Communications Media
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
1990 to 1994

Presentations

Presentations (3)
Embracing Automation - Automation doesn't replace your position, it strengthens it

Just about every business and agency is developing an IT automation strategy to increase their time to market and decrease human error. However, not everyone is excited about this new direction. Some IT workers are concerned that “automation” is a code word for “job elimination”. In this session, we’ll examine why that fear is not a reality. In fact, automation is having quite the opposite effect by creating new roles and career paths in IT. Ansible automation has simply shifted the workload from manual, time consuming, and error-prone tasks to automated workflows that are faster, safer, and reusable. But we need experts in those things we automate. Come hear about how you can strengthen your value in the workforce by embracing automation rather than dismissing it.

Automated Remediation - Identify, Prioritize, and Solve problems in your Red Hat Infrastructure

Customers that are being asked to do more with less struggle to find simple and cost effective tools that just work. Instead, they often find themselves dedicating significantly more resources just to implement a solution that was supposed to make their lives easier.
Red Hat Insights is a prescriptive analytics tool that combines simplicity with automation to solve security, reliability, availability, and performance problems on your Red Hat infrastructure. Delivered as software as a service, there is no additional infrastructure required. An intuitive interface quickly identifies and prioritizes flaws on your systems so that you can know with a glance which systems you need to repair right now and which ones may wait for your next scheduled downtime.

Automate to Orchestrate - The benefits of a Software Defined Data Center

Many government organizations face inefficiencies when provisioning or modifying infrastructure for their customers. Delivering a simple application often includes a laundry list of manual or error-prone tasks spread across multiple departments and often leads to friction between agencies and central IT. In a software defined data center (SDDC), we bypass arbitrary organizational gates, drastically decrease mistakes, and greatly increase the time to delivery.
Self-service and automation across the infrastructure stack from the initial request to production delivery is not only possible, it is how other agencies and major corporations are achieving a competitive edge in today’s market.

Workshops (2)
OpenShift 101 - DC Metro Map Workshop
Full day
(View workshop agenda)

This workshop will have you deploying and creating native docker images for a Node.js based website and learning to leverage the power of OpenShift to build, deploy, scale, and automate.

Ansible Automation Technical Workshops
Full day
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Learn to automate all things with Ansible and Red Hat Ansible Tower at our free, one-day, hands-on technical workshop.

Past talks (7)
Healthcare Data Security and why Technology Automation is a Critical Element
Healthcare Data Security and why Technology Automation is a Critical Element
webinar
December 6, 2017
Automation doesn’t replace your position, it strengthens it
Ansible Automates D.C.
Washington, DC
April 11, 2019
Integrate your Red Hat Management Infrastructure
Red Hat Summit 2019
Boston, MA
May 8, 2019
Operations Risk Remediation in Highly Secure Infrastructures
Red Hat Summit 2018
San Francisco, CA
May 9, 2018
Red Hat Insights - Mitigate Risk and Proactively Manage Your Infrastructure
Red Hat Convergence
Baltimore, MD
September 6, 2017
Red Hat Road Tour
Red Hat Road Tour
Princeton, NJ
November 5, 2018
Automated Remediation - Identify, Prioritize, and Solve problems in your Red Hat Infrastructure
Automated Remediation - Identify, Prioritize, and Solve problems in your Red Hat Infrastructure
webinar
July 24, 2018
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Books & Articles (5)

The Benefits of Open Source Virtualization
Old Nerds Can Still Bring I.T.
Equifax Breach - We're Missing the Point
How an open-source education can help students gain an edge
Settle Down Jerry, Automation isn't Taking your Job

Expertise (12)

Technology
Leadership
IT Automation Linux Container-Linux Architecting for the Cloud Openshift Ansible Ansible Tower Infrastructure modernization and optimization Cloud and DevOps Open Standards Solutions

Awards & certifications (2)

Red Hat Certified Architect
Red Hat
2018
Red Hat Certified Engineer
Red Hat
2017
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