Marin Frankovic was born in Makarska in 1976, where he completed his elementary schooling and part of high school. He graduated from high school in the USA, where he attended his senior year as an exchange student. In 2003, he earned a Mag. oec. degree from Faculty of Economics, Zagreb, majoring in Business Computing. As a student, he volunteered in the faculty's IT department for a year as technical support. After obtaining his degree, Marin started as a Microsoft MOC and an IBM ACE instructor in the largest private IT education company, Algebra. There, he also started as a consultant for infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud computing based on Microsoft technologies. Later on, when Algebra opened a private college for Applied Computing, he took on the position of Head of the Operating Systems department, and undertook the responsibility of creating the course curriculums and managing several lecturers and assistants. He also does lectures on several key courses in the system administration track. For five years in a row, Microsoft honored him with an MVP title for System Center and Datacenter Management. Marin is a regular speaker on all regional conferences, such as Windays, KulenDayz, MobilityDay, NT Konferenca, MS Network, DevArena, and so on. In 2011, he was awarded the Microsoft ISV award for his contribution to the Microsoft community. Marin regularly writes technical articles for IT magazine Mreža. His main interests today are cloud computing, virtualization as its core component, and resource consolidation based on Microsoft technologies, such as Windows Server and System Center applications.
Khaled Laz is an IT professional working for CCC, the largest construction company in the Middle East.
His experience focuses on troubleshooting and maintenance of IT networks. He holds more than a dozen certificates in the IT field, such as CCNA, MCITP, MCSE, MCSA, and many others.
Together with his extensive experience, he is a qualified expert in the area of System and Network Administration.
Dario Liguori is an MCTIP, MCSE, MCT, CCNA Security, VCP, Network+, Server+, and ITIL certified professional. He has over 20 years of experience as an IT consultant/trainer. He started working in the IT field using MS-DOS and Windows 1.01.
Over the years, his experience has covered a broad range of products, including NetWare, Lotus Domino, Windows NT, Exchange Server, IIS, Proxy Server, and so on.
He currently works for one of the most important Microsoft UC Gold Partners in Italy and the UAE as a senior consultant.
He has been involved in a wide range of projects in several countries for medium/large organizations.
Dario's primary focus is design and delivery of Microsoft infrastructure (SCCM, SCOM, SCVMM, TMG, SQL, Lync, Exchange, Hyper-V, AD DS, AD CS, AD FS, AD RMS, RDS, Cluster, NLB, Office 365, and so on).