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

Connect

Twitter (X): https://x.com/adbertram
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adambertram/

Articles by the Author

The Hidden Cloud Dependencies in Your On-Prem File Transfers

Your on-premises file transfer setup may quietly depend on a vendor’s cloud. Audit what your architecture actually runs—using Progress Automate MFT published design as the working example.

Automate MFT Digital Experience MOVEit Security and Compliance

Adam Bertram June 30, 2026

Why AI Pilots Don’t Ship: The Trust Ceiling No One Talks About

AI pilot failures cluster around integration and a learning gap, how the system connects to real data and real workflows, not how well it reasons. In this post, we'll discuss why so many AI pilots fail to pass the trust ceiling when the governance to defend them don't exist.

Agentic RAG Data & AI

Adam Bertram June 29, 2026

The File Transfer Layer Behind Orchestrated Intelligence in Banking

Banking AI is only as good as the files feeding it. Treating file movement as infrastructure helps catch stale data.

Automate MFT Digital Experience MOVEit Security and Compliance

Adam Bertram June 24, 2026

5 Sitefinity CMS Capabilities to Help You Prepare for the New DX Landscape

Progress Sitefinity Generative CMS combines AI agents, schema-ready structured content, real-time personalization and grounded conversational search to power AI-driven discovery.

Digital Experience Sitefinity

Adam Bertram June 18, 2026

Beyond File Transfers: Securing Data in the Age of Copy-Paste Exfiltration

File transfer security focused enterprises on perimeter controls while copy-paste exfiltration through browser extensions and GenAI became the dominant threat.

Digital Experience MOVEit Security and Compliance

Adam Bertram June 16, 2026

AI Knowledge Gaps - Progress Agentic RAG

How to Use Progress Agentic RAG to Identify Knowledge Gaps

A weak AI answer is evidence. Read it early and you can fix the knowledge gap before customers live it. Progress Agentic RAG gives that investigation a place to start because the answer is not a standalone artifact. It sits next to retrieved context and evaluation signal.