Bill Hirsch Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, Nc, Us

As the Global Platform Leader for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Bill works as a conduit between the RHEL business unit and the global sales organization to turn strategy into execution. In this role, he brings field feedback to the business unit (BU) to make adjustments to existing programs while ensuring that new go-to-market (GTM) strategies and programs are both understood and executed by the sales organization to deliver results.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Oversee a team of solution architects across the U.S. that serves our State and Local Government and Education customers. This highly trained and skilled team helps our customers understand the Red Hat portfolio in order to build solutions that can solve their business challenges.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

As a Principal Solutions Architect for Red Hat, I focus on our State Government, strategic University and Health Care customers across the United States. I work with our customers to find synergies between their goals and Red Hat's solutions. This includes working directly on projects with specific customers while also speaking at conferences, doing podcasts, and writing articles to get the word out on how Red Hat helps government and education succeed.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Leading a team of sales, marketing, and channel professionals focused on improving Red Hat’s go-to-market strategies and programs for academic customers.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

As a Sr. Solution Architect, I help Red Hat's State, Local, Education, and Healthcare customers achieve their business goals through open source solutions. As a contributing member of the northeast sales team, I am constantly seeking to understand my customer's needs and issues and match those up with Red Hat solutions. To that end, I spend 70% of my time visiting with customers while the other 30% is spent educating myself to stay on top of Red Hat solutions as well as industry trends. To support this pursuit, I contribute published articles, speaking engagements, workshops, demos, and presentations.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Advise customers on industry trends and architectures for information availability, enabling them to build resilient platforms with software defined storage management, high availability, and business continuity.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

* Conceived of and lead teams to design and implement UPMC's first IT Operational Analytics system which has indexed and made searchable multi-TB per/day of machine and application events, providing rich, intuitive support dashboards. In addition to providing operational intelligence, this system blossomed into UPMC's primary security intelligence platform.* Served as Chief Architect in the design and creation of the first Enterprise Architecture department at UPMC* Lead the Unix/Linux team to be the most efficient and cost effective in Health Care. Compared to Gartner research, UPMC systems are 2.5 times (2014) more cost effective than the industry average and UPMC engineers manage 8 times the number of hosts.* Lead the Synthetics/Robotic application performance monitoring system design and implementation capable of simulating user activity by executing synthetic transactions 24/7 as an early warning system to performance and availability issues.In this role, my primary responsibilities were:* Direct AIX and Linux services group* Direct Enterprise Systems Management services group* Direct IT Service Management Tools group* Develop strategy, services, and budgets* Manage customer and vendor relationships* Research, Design, and Implement the latest infrastructure technologies* Oversee system instrumentation for APM, ITSM, and Configuration.* Promote aggressive virtualization to drive down costs, increase agility, and enhance availability.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

* Liaison btw. application services and IT services* R&D for new server, OS, and HA technologies

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* Sr. Consultant specializing in Unix system design and implementation, IT infrastructure assesment, and software product configuration and support.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

* Worked as a system administrator providing support for Unix desktops as well as the server farm.* Managed the Unix system administration staff

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