Rick Crisci Author

Marko Sluga has more than 20 years of experience in IT and has had the benefit of witnessing the rise of cloud computing. Marko has worked on a variety of cloud-related projects, from the early stages of SOC, corporate virtualization, and open-source API offerings to modern, fully automated, intelligent, serverless, and cloud-native solutions. Marko has been working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) since the start of the 2010s and holds three associate, two professional, and three specialty AWS certifications. Marko performs training and advising on cloud technologies and strategies, DevOps, and IT system and process optimization to clients from a wide range of companies, including startups, SMBs, enterprise businesses, and Fortune 500 companies. Marko runs his own cloud training, coaching, and consulting practice under the markocloud.com brand. He is the author of the AWS Certified Developer -Associate (DVA-C01) Cert Guide.

Rick Crisci is the founder and principal trainer for Trainertests.com and is an experienced AWS and VMware instructor. Original content by Rick can be found on a variety of platforms including Pearson, LinkedIn Learning, and Udemy, with more than 30 courses, over 250,000 students, and exceptionally high course review scores. Rick also teaches live hands-on AWS courses regularly for Pearson on O'Reilly. Prior to becoming an instructor, Rick had over 15 years of real-world experience. Some career highlights include designing high-speed Internet networks in the early 2000s and managing virtualization and networking teams for a financial institution. In 2017, VMware recognized Rick as the first runner-up for Instructor of the Year for the Americas. This honor was largely due to the glowing feedback from his students. Rick seeks to help students learn by taking complex concepts and providing clear and simple explanations, diagrams, and analogies.

At the impressionable age of 14, William “Bo” Rothwell crossed paths with a TRS-80 Micro Computer System (affectionately known as a “Trash 80”). Soon after, the adults responsible for Bo made the mistake of leaving him alone with the TRS-80. He immediately dismantled it and held his first computer class, showing his friends what made this “computer thing” work. Since that experience, Bo's passion for understanding how computers work and sharing this knowledge with others has resulted in a rewarding career in IT training. His experience includes Cloud, Linux, UNIX, IT security, DevOps, and programming languages such as Perl, Python, Tcl, and BASH. He is the founder and lead instructor of One Course Source, an IT training organization.