Here’s a haiku for you:

The EB, AC
will introduce him, herself
read, get to know them!

Mark – President

Mark Robert M. Aldecimo (4 BS CS) is the President of CompSAt. Out of love for the org and passion for IT, he oversees all activities of the organization, represents CompSAt in COA, facilitates all meetings, and aims to know all the members of the organization. Compared to the previous years, Mark wants to focus on improving the internal systems of CompSAt, “so that we can do our work better.”

Nicknames: Mark
Hobbies: DotA, App Development, TV series
Favorite Anime/Shows: Suits, How to Get Away with Murder, HIMYM
Favorite Food: Fried Siomai of MiniStop

Starter pack: Laptop, Gundams, Undercut, and Sleep

Carlo – Executive Vice President

Carlo Luis de Guzman (4 BS CS) definitely knows the inner workings of CompSAt after 3 years of experience; that’s why he took on the role of EVP. He oversees all projects, and assumes the role of the President when said officer is unavailable. This year, he aims to have CompSAt members be more involved – be it as part of core teams, or simply hanging out with orgmates. “We shall give it our best and hopefully we can… give you the best!”

Nicknames: Carlo, Deggy
Hobbies: Guitar, singing, DotA
Favorite Anime/Shows: Legend of Korra
Favorite Food: Sushi and Pizza

Starter pack: Red Lenovo laptop, Polo shirts, Car, Sparkling legs

Sabs – Secretary-General

Isabel M. Constantino (4 BS CS) claims to be in this position only because, among the usual departments, secretariat work is the only thing she knows how to do; whether or not this is true, she’s definitely good at it, as she is the one who makes sure all of CompSAt’s documentation is in order. This means recording minutes of meetings, handling old documents of old projects, and reminding Project Heads and AVPs to submit documentation. She’ll also be working on a seminar on project management for project heads and core team members.

Nickname: Sabs
Hobbies: Photography, reading online articles
Favorite Anime/Shows: Parks and Recreation, Modern Family, Orange is the New Black
Favorite Food: Can’t decide between dimsum and sushi

Starter pack: White t-shirt, Black pants, MacBook Pro, Camera

Nikki – Associate Vice President for Documentation

Jan Nicole N. Domingo (2 BS CS) not only wanted to contribute and become a bigger part of the org that feels like home, but also wanted to challenge herself; this is why she’s now the AVP responsible for collecting, organizing, and keeping track of documentation for CompSAt events. Nikki is also in charge of ComPress, the pool of CompSAt photographers who will document its events.

Nickname: Nikki
Hobbies: Listen to new music, watch TV shows, play guitar
Favorite Anime/Shows: Game of Thrones
Favorite Food: Mojos and Japanese food

Starter pack: Short hair, Big smile, Cardigans, Puns

Chi – Associate Vice President for Publication

Chiara Veronica D. Señires (4 BS CS) is the AVP who handles CompSAt’s social media accounts. She also oversees Wildcard, CompSAt’s online publication. She wants to make Wildcard bloom again and believes that this is a great way to contribute to CompSAt. She envisions a CompSAt “that gives its members a reason to stay…, connects with its members, and also opens up to others in order to spread the love for IT.”

Nickname: Chi
Hobbies: YouTube videos, indie games, drawing, writing poems
Favorite Anime/Shows: One Piece
Favorite Food: Chocolate or Chicken

Starter pack: Corny jokes, Short hair, Sketches and artsy things, Livetweets

Erika – Vice President for External Affairs

Erika Faye R. Cerezo (4 BS CS) is the VP who handles CompSAt’s relationships with various school organizations, NGOs, and other institutions. She also oversees all partnerships and projects that result from these partnerships, and maintains CompSAt’s image and presence inside and outside of Ateneo. Because she wanted to interact with people beyond the organization, she now oversees projects that are to have social impact such as e-Drive, I.T. Conference, and BitBit Regalo. As for CompSAt this year, to quote: “there’s nowhere else to go but up!”

Nickname: Erika
Hobbies: Surfing the web, reading fiction, watch shows/movies/anime
Favorite Anime/Shows: Marvel, Hannibal, The Hobbit, Harry Potter, Lord of The Rings, CLAMP, BBC Sherlock, Kingsman, Axis Powers Hetalia, Free!
Favorite Food: Chocolate, Pizza, Mozzarella Sticks, Lemon Squares, the list is too big

Starter pack: Marvel comic books, Nautical clothes for little boys, Food, OTP feels

Seth – Associate Vice President for Community Relations

Seth Andrei L. Legaspi (3 CS-DGDD) provides aid for CompSAt’s nation-building activities like outreach programs and speaking engagements, and acts as CompSAt’s representative to similar events. He chose this position because he enjoyed his experience in previous CompSAt outreach programs. One of his current projects is BitBit Regalo, a project which aims to give assistance to those in need of IT resources and education. He believes that this year will be better than the previous years, thanks to the suggestions, contributions, and personal touches of the EB+AC and CompSAt members.

Nickname: Seth
Hobbies: Playing videogames, watching anime, reading books or web novels, writing, figma-collecting
Favorite Anime/Shows: Fate/Zero and other Fate animes
Favorite Food: Chicken, regardless of cooking

Starter pack: Anime pin, Polo shirt, Blue backpack, Uniqlo 3/4 cargo shorts

Pearl – Associate Vice President for Scholastic Relations

Pearl Jen C. Santos (3 BS CS) facilitates and maintains CompSAt’s relations with computer organizations inside and outside of Ateneo. She chose this position even though it’s reputedly “one of the trickiest and most challenging position in the EA department” – because “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!” Currently, she oversees and the ACM ICPC Philippines Metro Manila Invitational Programming Competition. Her vision for CompSAt is simply three words: bigger, better, stronger.

Nickname: Pearl
Hobbies: Program, watch shows, read, draw, write
Favorite Anime/Shows: POKEMOOON
Favorite Food: Anything that doesn’t eat me! Jk; rice and potatoes

Starter pack: File envelope, Pokeball, Notebook, FB status: “mentally dating a fictional character” status

 Viktor – Associate Vice President for University Relations

Viktor Mikhael M. Dela Cruz (3 BS CS) makes sure that CompSAt is connected to the other orgs and departments of the Ateneo. Thanks to “fate and luck,” he wound up as the AVP, and he has no regrets. His projects this year include e-Drive, LoopBack, and DISCS Appreciation Day. This AVP aligns his vision to member formation and internal communication, and believes it will be one of CompSAt’s better years – the org has nowhere else to go but up.

Nickname: Viktor
Hobbies: Washing the dishes, doing laundry, lessening other people’s burdens
Favorite Shows: Game of Thrones
Favorite Food: Anything made with love except sushi and ampalaya

Starter pack: Cajon, DotA, CompSAt, The Trinity (Kanye West, Shia Labeouf, John Cena)

Reyana – Vice President for Finance

Ma. Reyana L. Leonardo (4 BS MIS) makes sure that CompSAt has the funds “to achieve our hopes and dreams.” She chose this position because she wanted to learn more about the financial way of life, and about marketing. She wants CompSAt to find more I.T. companies to partner with and to make members more aware of the financial procedures.

Nickname: Reyana
Hobbies: Cooking Dash, watching shows, living the piggy way of life
Favorite Shows: Game of Thrones, Suits, How to Get Away With Murder
Favorite Food: Ice cream, Krispy Kreme Original Glaze and anything potato is love

Starter pack: Hair tie, Sheer top, Shorts, Nail polish

V-Ann – Associate Vice President for Finance

Vermille Ann T. Saw (4 BS CS) chose her position because she is confident in her abilities to be in charge of budgeting and fundraising. Some examples of projects she’ll be handling are ROFL and Geek Shop. She believes that CompSAt will be great this year, and finds the very thought of CompSAt being worse this year preposterous.

Nickname: V-ann
Hobbies: Internet, Listening to music
Shows: Cowboy Bebop
Favorite Food: Gummy food, tuyoooooo

Starter pack: Gummy bears, gummy worms, sour gummy bears, sour gummy worms

Pia – Vice President for Internal Affairs

Pia Melissa M. Encarnacion (4 BS CS), the former AVP for Events, enjoyed her job. Aside from thinking the IA Department can improve more, she also wanted to push herself and better develop her leadership skills, and here she is—in charge of the organization’s membership relations and formation.

Nickname: Pia
Hobbies: Go online and read articles, blogs, watch videos on YouTube, watch shows and movies, go out with friends and family, sleep, and exercise when I can
Favorite Anime/Shows: Graceland, Master Chef, So You Think You Can Dance, and America’s Best Dance Crew
Food: Mexican, Filipino, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Korean, Italian food; and buffalo wings/tenders

Starter pack: Dance, Travelling, Sleep, Makeup

Paulo – Associate Vice President for Events

John Paulo S. Pascua (4 BS CS) organizes and supervises events that specifically aim to promote camaraderie and bonding among members. He chose this because of adoration of the CompSAt members and his love for managing events. XP Week is one of the projects he’ll be handling. He hopes to see CompSAt further becoming the premier IT organization of the Ateneo. At the very least, he’ll be managing CompSAt events to make the people happy.

Nickname: Paulo
Hobbies: Gym, movies/series/anime, listening to music, questing whether he actually has free time, fashion forums, Gravity Falls
Favorite Anime/Shows: Sakamichi no Apollon, Encantadia, Breaking Bad, Firefly
Food: Menudo!

Starter pack: Blue-framed glasses on the table, Silver Samsung laptop, Brown-orange loafers, Navy jeans

DA – Associate Vice President for Formation

Dennis Andrew R. Villamor (3 BS CS) will do his best to form people into active CompSAt members and encourage members to bond. After a year of serving as a Package Manager and, on multiple occasions, a Project Head, DA believes that this is the department where he can contribute best. He is in charge of the Package System, overseeing Package Managers, and Team Building activities – in general, all that has to do with forming active members.

Nickname: Dennis, D.A.
Hobbies: Playing video games, running (real running), listening to Blink-182, Pokemon
Favorite Anime/Shows: Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure, Breaking Bad
Favorite Food: Burgers

Starter pack: Running shoes, Black-rimmed glasses, Bass guitar, Jolly Hotdog

JM – Vice President for Logistics and Promotions

John Michael Santos (4 BS CS) will ensure all logistical and promotional matters are going according to plan. Preferring to be “that person working behind the scenes,” he’ll be helping his AVP in heading ProCreate, CompSAt’s Creatives Pool. Our VP sees colorfulness and more levels of fun for CompSAt — and the goal of the org this year? For members to enjoy.

Nickname: JM
Hobbies: Eat, sleep, play games, bookmarking or saving something cool or pretty
Favorite Anime/Shows: None in Particular
Favorite Food: Rice Meals

Starter pack: Long umbrella, Pack of marshmallows, Mountain Dew, Oishi Pillows

Gio – Associate Vice President for Logistics

Gio Nyco L. Ramos (3 BS CS) is the AVP for Logistics. Anything pertaining to the venues that will be used for CompSAt’s events (i.e. reservation) will be handled by him. His job is this simple, and this complicated. He aims for CompSAt’s logical matters to be a bit less centralized and more distributed this year in terms of labor.

Nickname: Gio
Hobbies: Vainglory (mobile MOBA), watch anime
Favorite Anime/Shows: Log Horizon, the new GATE anime, Parasyte, Tokyo Ghoul, and other stuff
Favorite Food: Gummy Worms

Starter pack: Tablet, Wi-Fi, Laptop, Gummy bears/Gummy worms

Guigi – Associate Vice President for Promotions

Miguel N. Galace (2 BS CS) wishes to promote CompSAt not only because he is a budding graphic designer, but also because he believes in the importance of IT in our world today. He believes that CompSAt’s the perfect avenue to show this to the world. You may have seen some of his craftsmanship in CompSAt’s posters for RecWeek and XP Week. He wishes for CompSAt to reach a wider audience, attracting CS majors and non-CS majors alike to events.

Nickname: Guigi (gi gi, not ji ji)
Hobbies: Basketball, reading design articles, IT Shiz
Favorite Anime/Shows: Top Gear
Favorite Food: Always down for anything out of the ordinary

Starter pack: Moto G (2013), Wi-Fi, Miami HEAT Cap, Gray Vans

Basil – Vice President for Research and Development

Basil Miguel B. Begonia (3 BS CS) will do his best to “create the foundation and unleash the full potential of CompSAt.” He has always wanted to learn new things and apply them to make things better. This year, he will do just that for projects such as ProgVar Lite and WebDev Tutorials. He will also handle the Dev Team of CompSAt. This year, he wants CompSAt to be better at its core, and to be better at what sets it apart.

Nickname: Basil
Hobbies: DOtA, badminton, motorcycle stuff, development stuff, TV shows
Favorite Anime/Shows: Suits, Modern Family, FRIENDS, Breaking Bad
Favorite Food: Sinigang sa miso, inihaw na baboy

Starter pack: Basilbro the Internet Dongle, DotA 2, Red Nissan Pulsar NX88, Basil

Anton – Associate Vice President for Development

Anton Miguel S. Suba (2 BS CS) believes the RnD department is what makes CompSAt unique – this makes CompSAt, CompSAt. Because of this, he’s now the AVP who mainly handles CompSAt’s development team. He will be holding dev sessions for those who are interested, assigning dev projects to the team for training, and meeting with potential clients for CompSAt. He believes we’ll see increased member involvement in projects, improvements in the dev team’s opportunities and accomplishments for projects, and a more active presence of CompSAt.

Nickname: Anton
Hobbies: Videogames (e.g. Mass Effect 2), watching movies and TV shows, programming
Favorite Anime/Shows: Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, House of Cards
Favorite Food: Pizza!! (without pineapples)

Starter pack: Boat shoes, Folded shorts, KFC, COD/CS: Go

Sean – Associate Vice President for Services

Sean Andrew Y. Rafanan (4 BS CS) handles all academic services of CompSAt such as Gearbox (the academic repository), CS Tutorials, and ITM Tutorials. Sean has always been fond of learning and sharing knowledge, especially with those in need of academic assistance, and this is the perfect place for him to do just that. He describes this year’s EB+AC as visionaries, and they’ll do everything to make CompSAt better.

Nickname: Sean
Hobbies: Playing videogames, reading fiction, watching series
Favorite Anime/Shows: Hannibal, Sherlock, Walking Dead, HIMYM
Favorite Food: Steamed fried rice, baked scallops, mashed potatoes, high-grade protein-rich meat in general

Starter pack: Cap, Shorts, Sneakers, Blender bottle

Nina – Associate Vice President for Training

Jenina Isabel L. Sanchez (3 BSMS CS) will make sure that CompSAt’s many tutorials provides great starting points “for members who want to push their limits and learn more.” Nina loves to guide people (even if not directly teaching them), and she wants to see the tutorials implemented to their full potential. As an example, she’ll be working on ProgVar Lite and WebDev Tutorials. Nina wants to see new and old members alike actively participate in CompSAt. After all, only through sharing IT and encouraging members to seize the opportunities CompSAt provides can the year be better!

Nickname: Nina
Hobbies: Watching Food Network/cartoons/anime, drawing, singing
Favorite Anime/Shows: Gravity Falls, Over the Garden Wall
Favorite Food: Really good medium rare steak, lasagna, ramen, or sinigang

Starter pack: Peace sign, Plushies, Shorts, 3DS

 And there you have it! This year’s CompSAt EB+AC are past their “Hello worlds” and are ready to take on the world – for and through IT.

A Little Game Before You Go

Now that you know a bit about our officers, can you try guessing who wrote which haiku? 😉 If you guess all correct, you might get something good!

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Photos used in this article were taken by Carlo Luis de Guzman and Sabs Constantino.

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ERRATUM: Nina Sanchez’s year and course is 3 BSMS CS.