Turkcell’s Orhan Bıyıklıoğlu Named Red Hat’s 2017 Certified Professional of the Year
Bıyıklıoğlu honored for thought leadership and innovation using Red
Hat technologies, including Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Orhan Bıyıklıoğlu, a system
administrator at Turkcell in Istanbul, has been named the 2017 Red Hat
Certified Professional of the Year. The annual award honors a Red Hat
Certified Professional (RHCP) who demonstrates ingenuity, hard work, and
expertise, and will be presented to Bıyıklıoğlu at Red Hat Summit 2017,
currently taking place in Boston.
Bıyıklıoğlu is both a Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHCSA)
and a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), and also has a Red Hat
Certificate of Expertise in Server Hardening. At Turkcell, he helped
introduce Red Hat technologies into Turkcell’s converged technologies
solutions.
He used his training to help Turkcell design, implement, and maintain a
robust and flexible IT infrastructure, while also achieving cost
savings. When Bıyıklıoğlu joined Turkcell more than a decade ago, he
successfully led the migration of Turkcell to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
by designing and implementing server architecture to consolidate more
than 20 critical database workloads running on more than 40 servers from
different vendors. Through his efforts, Turkcell is also now seeing
success using
a range of Red Hat technologies including Red
Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red
Hat OpenStack Platform and Ansible
by Red Hat.
For the last 18 years, the Red Hat Certification program has had a
single goal of building and validating skills through a program with
rigorous, hands-on, and performance based testing. Red Hat’s
certifications can help system administrators, application developers,
and IT architects advance their careers. RHCE, and all the programs that
followed, establish benchmarks for what an IT professional should know
when using Red Hat technology.
Supporting quotes
Randy Russell, director, Certification,
Red Hat
“We select the Red Hat Certified Professional of the
Year not only on the basis of their technical accomplishments and
in-depth knowledge of Red Hat technologies, but also for their eagerness
to share their knowledge with others. Orhan, both a Red Hat Certified
Engineer and Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator, has introduced and
helped run Red Hat technology at Turkcell. On behalf of all Red Hatters
– congratulations, Orhan.”
Orhan Bıyıklıoğlu, senior system administrator, Turkcell
“Red
Hat certifications have a strong reputation and respect in the industry
because they are performance based. The examinees must actually
demonstrate their working knowledge and skills by accomplishing hands-on
tasks during the exam, as they do in the workplace. I am very proud to
be selected as the 2017 Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year and
am grateful to my company, Turkcell, for supporting me to become Red Hat
certified.”
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