TRAINERS

 

The Five Trainers you may find in the Riga Bootcamp

 

Ron Touw

Ron Touw

Ron has nearly 45 years working with RF from 9kHz to 100GHz, initially with the Metropolitan Police (London) deploying μWave links, building, installing and finding covert transmitters, then working for various UK Government Departments before working with 2.4GHz and 5GHz based WISP networks. With training certifications from various companies such as Marconi, Hewlett-Packard, Rohde & Schwarz, Microsoft, Ruckus, Meru, MikroTik and Ubiquiti, Ron has never stop learning.
He became a MikroTik Trainer in 2008 and is certified to deliver all MikroTik Training Courses. He created the new MTCEWE course and peer reviewed the MTCSWE with the author Jono Thompson and co-reviewer Barry Higgins

   

 

Lorenzo Busatti

Lorenzo has been working on internet TLCs since 1997, when he founded his own ISP in the dialup era and is still today managing a wide area WISP since 2006 providing broadband in the rural areas to the south of Tuscany.
He became a MikroTik Trainer in 2010 and is certified to deliver all of MikroTik’s Training Courses.
As a frequent presenter at various MikroTik User Meetings in the world, he likes to describe himself as a “MikroTik Evangelist” 🙂

   

Barry Higgins

Barry Higgins

From the old school of home computing and entering pages of code just to play space invaders during school lunch breaks, Barry Higgins has ventured into and maintained many aspects of the I.T network industry. After setting up a web host company in 1995, the portfolio expanded to private dial up email systems and other ISP services culminating by 2008 in to a small WISP. While all the ISP services are still maintained and continuing to expand Barry’s main focus in the last 3 years has been consulting and training predominantly in Mikrotik RouterOS field with the experience gained from running his own WISP. He peer reviewed the new MTCEWE by Ron Touw and MTCSWE by Jono Thompson.

   

Menno van Krimpen

Menno van Krimpen

He has been working in IT since 1995, and walked his first steps in networking in 1997.
Started a WISP in 2012 (with the use of MikroTik!), became MikroTik certified in 2013. Became the first MikroTik trainer in the BeNeLux since 2016.

   

Guilherme Ramires

Guilherme Ramires

Guilherme has been working with ISPs since 2006, a MikroTik Consultant in 2007, a Training Partner in 2010, the only MikroTik Academy in Brazil since 2013, managing and developing huge networks with over 50K subscribers link BRASILNET Digital and many others more. You will probably find him delivering Huawei trainings somewhere, but MikroTik is his passion.

   

Michael Gisbers

 

Michael Gisbers

Michael has been working with Linux for more than 30 years and started his own business – Linux-Schmie.de – in 2008. In 2012 he started with Mikrotik RouterOS after a Linux User Group meeting where a Mikrotik router was used as a UMTS to Wifi gateway. In 2022 he became a MikroTik trainer. Along with Mikrotik trainings and consulting he also provides all kinds of Linux and Cloud related services. In addition he is an exam developer and partner of the Linux Professional Institute (LPI).