We Built It Because Nobody Else Would.
Tru Tradesman’s Institute is led by two working HVAC instructors with 33+ years of combined trade experience and active Florida licensure. Built to deliver real training, real certifications, and real field readiness — for people serious about learning this trade.
The Story
From The Workshop To The Classroom
We’re two HVAC instructors. Together we’ve put in over 33 years in this trade. Dyron Gavin brings 25 years of HVAC field experience, U.S. military service, EPA 608 certification, OSHA 30 certification, and PLC instructor credentials. Ramón Montero is a Florida-licensed HVAC contractor — license CAC1819148, active since July 2017 — with deep residential and commercial field expertise and the regulatory side of the trade most online programs ignore entirely.
The trade has been our life. Service trucks. Mechanical rooms. Rooftops. Mini-splits installed in attics where you can’t stand up straight. Compressor diagnostics at 2 AM with a homeowner watching over your shoulder. The licensed, code-compliant work that makes real HVAC permittable, inspectable, and insurable.
And we’ve watched what happens when working-class people try to break into this trade. Trade schools charging $20,000 and taking 18 months. YouTube full of great information with no structure or accountability. Online HVAC courses that are slide decks and quizzes — no field readiness, no certification that matters, no community to ask questions when you’re stuck. The certifications that actually get you hired — EPA 608, OSHA 30 — treated as afterthoughts instead of the core deliverable.
What we saw wasn’t being done right. So we built Tru Tradesman’s Institute — the place to learn HVAC right. Real curriculum, real certifications, real field readiness, and a community you can ask questions when you’re stuck on a job at 2 PM. Self-paced, online, on your schedule.
We built this for the men and women who are tired of being broke, who have the passion to learn the trade, and the ambition to actually work. The ones who’ll show up at 7 AM on a service call and figure it out. The ones truly looking to make a real living for themselves. Other schools kind of fall short. Tru Tradesman’s is where things get done right. That’s the whole pitch. The rest of this page is us showing our work.
— Dyron Gavin & Ramón Montero · HVAC Instructors, Tru Tradesman’s Institute
How We Operate
What We Believe
Direct Training
Working-class people deserve direct training, not academic theater. Every lesson teaches something a working tech needs to know. If we can’t connect a topic to a job site, we cut it.
Real Certifications
Real certifications matter more than impressive logos. OSHA 10 access, NCCER, ServSafe — the credentials that get you on a service truck or in a kitchen. We focus on the certs that pay rent.
Community
Community is the part nobody else gives you. You can buy a course anywhere. You cannot buy a network of working techs willing to answer your questions at 2 PM when a job has gone sideways. We built that.
No Gatekeeping
We refuse to gate the trade. We tell you what we know, in the order we wish someone had told us — and we don’t pretend the information is rare.
Respect
We respect your time and your money. Self-paced. No filler. No upsells. No hidden fees. Pricing on request, because every situation is different and we’d rather have a conversation than play discount games.
Meet The Founders
We’re Not Educators. We’re Techs.
Two working HVAC instructors who still do the work — not content writers reading scripts, not academics with textbooks. The kind of people you’d actually want training the next generation.
Dyron Gavin serves as Dean of Trades and Lead HVAC Instructor. He brings 25 years of trade experience, U.S. military service, EPA 608 and OSHA 30 certification, and PLC / Northbridge instructor credentials. His focus: HVAC fundamentals, safety, jobsite discipline, tool usage, field readiness, troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, refrigerant safety, electrical awareness, PLC fundamentals, and student professionalism — helping students become safer, more skilled, and better prepared for real opportunities in the trades.
Ramón Montero is an HVAC Instructor and Licensed Contractor. He holds an active Florida HVAC contractor license (CAC1819148), issued July 28, 2017, with 8+ years of formally-licensed residential and commercial field experience. His focus: installation and service, code compliance, licensing requirements, permits, inspections, insurance and the professional standards licensed HVAC operates under — the difference between an apprentice who washes out and a tech who ends up running their own truck.
Six Tracks Under One Roof
HVAC Is Just The Start
Tru Tradesman’s Institute is being built as a six-vertical training organization for working-class career paths. HVAC is open now; the rest launch across 2026–2027 — each with real certifications, working-professional instructors, lab work over theory, and no gatekeeping.
HVAC
Become a working HVAC tech in 6 months. OSHA 10 + EPA 608 exam access + textbook, all included.
Electrical
Get NCCER-ready and on a residential or commercial crew.
Plumbing
Service calls or new construction. Real pipe-and-fixture training.
Culinary
Line cook to kitchen lead, with the certs that get you hired.
Music Production
Beats, vocals, mixes — and the business behind them.
Media + Web
Build sites, brands, and content people pay for.
What We Owe You
What You Can Hold Us To
What we promise
- Real curriculum taught by working professionals
- Industry-recognized certification prep — not internal certificates
- Community access where you can ask questions of practicing techs
- 30-day money-back guarantee on the foundational track, no questions asked
What we won’t do
- We won’t promise you a specific income
- We won’t promise you a job
- We won’t tell you this is easy
- We won’t sell you upsells you don’t need
What we expect from you
- Show up. Self-paced doesn’t mean optional.
- Do the lab work. Watching videos isn’t training.
- Ask questions. The community works because people use it.
- Respect the trade. The people teaching you have done the work — listen first.
You’ve Read Enough
Two Doors.
If this sounds like the program you wished existed when you started looking for a path into a trade — it is. The HVAC track is open. Talk to a tech, or watch the first three lessons free.
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