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ALVIN REY MONTERO was born Alvin Rey Villanueva Montero on June 8, 1988 at Barangay Libongcogon in the Municipality of Zarraga of Iloilo Province in the Philippines. He is the first born of Billa Posoc Villanueva (the 2nd daughter of Letecia Javellana Jover Posoc of Lapaz, Iloilo City and Juanito Lopez Zerrudo Villanueva of Zarraga, Iloilo) and Sergio Aguilar Montero Jr. (the youngest son of Rosalia Ampatuan Aguilar of Mindanao and Sergio Garcia Montero Sr of Davao).

Education

In his elementary days, Alvin showed his academic excellence and in-fact graduated Class Valedictorian of his class on April 2000 at Don Benjamin Jalandoni Sr. Memorial Elementary School. During his secondary education, he continued his excellent performance in all his subjects and again proved his best as he again graduated Class Valedictorian of his class on April 2004 at Don Benjamin Jalandoni Sr. Memorial National High School. He also took up computer classes at the University of the Philippines in the Visayas in order for him to advance himself in the challenging world of the forthcoming digitalization era. On his college years, he tries to enrolled at West Visayas State University as a nursing student with a promising aptitude percentage rate but later find himself interested in the maritime industry. He never finished the 1st year of his nursing course and proceed his academic training in the maritime industry. He studied Bachelor of Science in Marine Engineering at John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University in Iloilo and successfully finished the course despite of his gender preference. Two maritime companies become interested to Alvin not just because of his academic performance but because of his appetite and curiosity to the maritime world. The Scandinavian Maritime and the Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement are the said two maritime companies who became interested in him.

Seafaring Career

On June 2008, Montero finished his Academic Requirements of his maritime course and chose Scandinavian Maritime as the company which he will nurture and cultivate his learnings to improve himself in the maritime world. Due to his gender preference, he was ousted in the company. He was already in Manila during that time and even with such discrimination, he does not lose hope, instead he is more determined and challenge to continue to pursue his career in the seafaring industry. He courageously visited the other company who have interest in him, the Berhard Schulte Shipmanagement. He proudly tells his story and the company have no objection or any hesitation to accept him as a trainee. They see Alvin as a potential seafarer for their company to grow and decided to enroll him in a maritime institution in Makati City to improve and develop his skills in advance as they planned to send him onboard soonest. On October 2008, four months after his academic trainings, some discrimination, and acceptance plus development studies, he joined on his first assigned vessel on Le Havre, France. He continued his seafaring career with promising promotion in every assigned vessel with international routes around the globe.

During his seafaring career, Montero make good friendship in the people where his assigned vessel docked. His circle of friends with constant communications until the present ranges from Africa (South Africa, Nigeria, Tanzania, Tasmania, Seychelles, Kenya, Morocco, Ghana, Madagascar, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, Benin and Togo; Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Cuba, Panama and Mexico): Asia (Singapore, Hongkong, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, China, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Maldives); Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania and Micronesia); Europe (Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, France, Greece, Denmark, Norway, Hamburg, Poland and Ireland).