Adam Bertram

Founder & Principal Consultant

ATA Learning, Inc.

Adam Bertram is a 25+ year IT veteran, former Microsoft MVP, and self-employed consultant who helps organizations replace repetitive manual work with generative AI automation and agent-based workflows. He’s a successful blogger, consultant, trainer, published author and freelance writer for dozens of technology publications.

Bio Overview

Adam’s primary focus today is generative AI automation and agent workflows—helping teams design and implement AI-driven systems that eliminate manual busywork, backed by nearly two decades of experience in PowerShell scripting and IT infrastructure automation. He’s an avid open-source contributor on GitHub (github.com/adbertram), where projects like AgentTrainer and CourseCraft reflect his current work in AI agents and automated content pipelines.

Beyond consulting, Adam is a prolific technical educator. He has authored over two dozen video courses for platforms like Pluralsight and LinkedIn Learning, written hundreds of published articles and built a following of more than 13,000 professionals across his content channels. He’s also a published book author, having written “PowerShell for Sysadmins” (No Starch Press) and “The Pester Book” (Leanpub).

Areas of Expertise

  • Generative AI automation and agent workflows
  • Business process automation (Zapier, Make)
  • Technical writing, training, and course creation

Credentials & Publications

  • Former Microsoft MVP (6x)
  • Author, “PowerShell for Sysadmins” (No Starch Press)
  • Author, “The Pester Book” (Leanpub)
  • 26+ published video courses (Pluralsight, LinkedIn Learning)
  • 400+ published articles across dozens of technology publications

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Articles by the Author

Do Agents Still Need RAG with Million-Token Context Windows?
AI models can now take a million tokens in a single prompt, so it’s fair to ask why an agent still needs a layer that hunts down the few relevant passages before it answers. Narrowing first is cheaper and more accurate and it keeps you free to change AI vendors later.
Adam Bertram September 30, 2026
Closing the Visibility and Accountability Gap in File-Driven Work
Progress MOVEit software helps teams oversee file tranfsers. What happens after the document arrives? The Progress Podio platform can help illuminate the subsequent workflow.
How Fintech Partner Growth Turns File Transfer into an AI Governance Problem
AI governance succeeds or fails at the data path rather than the model. A governed file transfer layer can help make paths defensible, from partner feeds to core banking systems. 
What is Multi-Hop Retrieval?
Multi-hop retrieval runs several search passes in sequence to answer questions whose supporting evidence sits in separate documents. This post reviews what it is and how Progress Agentic RAG integrates multi-hop retrieval into its architecture.
How Self-Hosted Agents Make Cloud MFT Work Behind the Firewall
Cloud-managed file transfer does not have to drag your private endpoints onto a cloud execution path like luggage through a busy airport. Where the agent sits changes everything, and no amount of console polish will change that for you.
What is a Knowledge Graph in Enterprise AI?
Knowledge graphs make relationships explicit and queryable, so enterprise AI can follow business facts instead of guessing from similar text.
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