Dick Visser (System & Network Engineer)
Dyonisius (Dick) Visser, born in 1973, joined TERENA in November 2000 and is the Secretariat's System & Network Engineer.
After graduating in chemistry from the Hogeschool van Amsterdam in 1998, he was a network-manager for the national PDH/SDH/DWDM-transmission network of KPN Telecom in Hilversum. While working at KPN, he discovered that his main interest was not in the transmission-techniques, but more in the UNIX world and so decided to make a shift in his career and joined TERENA.
In July 2007 he began studying at the University of Amsterdam, and in June 2009 he graduated for the Master "System & Network Engineering.
Dick is responsible for setting-up and maintaining the TERENA IT infrastructure and is TERENA's listmaster, hostmaster and co-webmaster. He can be contacted for any technical question related to TERENA's online presence.
In his spare time, Dick enjoys photography and hiking. For non-TERENA matters and (even more) spam, Dick can be contacted at: dick@tienhuis.nl.