"Fray Joel" entered the Dominican formation in 1990 straight out of high school. In 1993 he received the habit of the Order of Preachers while being admitted to the novitiate. He obtained his A.B. Philosophy degree in 1996 at the same time that he decided to take a leave from seminary life. In the secular world, he trained as a mainframe programmer with Citibank which started his career in Information Technology, and the rest as they say is history. Joel has been an IT practitioner all his professional life gaining experience and expertise with global companies such as Citibank Asia-Pacific, RCG-IT, IBM Solutions, Accenture and James-Martin/Headstrong. Based in the New York metro area since 2012, Joel is currently an IT Support Operations Manager with Genpact possessing over 15 years of success leading diverse technology projects within the Capital Markets and Financial Services industry and domain. Joel is happily married to Nancy Aquino-Gabriel.
2018 March Lifestyle Tech Matters

Top 10 ways to secure your data while traveling

The advent of the Holy Week in the Philippines herald the start of the travel season, especially since most schools have not yet adapted to the September school opening.  For countless among us, our smartphones and laptops are a must-bring to make our travel productive and memorable.  Be it taking selfies or walk-about vlogs, video-conferencing […]

2018 March Editorial Features

What’s in a name?  FSDPI.

Filii Sancti Dominici Philippinensis (International) “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” so did the Great Bard opine about this primordial question.  Anyone hearing for the first time FSDPI’s formal corporate name would almost instantaneously inquire, “What in heaven’s good name do those words mean?”  As with most words, the etymology of […]

2017 December Lifestyle Tech Matters

Password Complexity: The Simple Truth

Passwords have been around since time immemorial as a way of user identification, identity authentication and as a way of gaining access to a restricted resource. The Greek historian Polybius has discussed in detail how passwords, or quite specifically, “watchwords” were used by the Roman military in the changing of the guards, thus protecting from […]

2017 November Lifestyle Tech Matters

Online Security and Identity Theft

…when the good things in life aren’t really free. There is an ongoing misconception that the internet is a relatively safe place, and that our online presence is meant to mask our identity or offer a different persona than who we are.  With internet fast allowing for seamless inter-connectivity among governments, businesses and individuals, there […]