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Raffy Gutierrez (Rafael Jose Resurreccion Gutierrez)
Raffy Gutierrez (Rafael Jose Resurreccion Gutierrez)

Raffy Gutierrez or just "Raffy," for short, is a Filipino who was born in September 30, 1971 in Quezon City, Philippines. He was born in the early hours of the morning. His father is Jose Lopez Gutierrez (April 25, 1940 - ) and his mother is Irene Resurreccion Gutierrez -maiden name Irene Honasan Resurreccion- (June 4, 1945 -). His biological grandparents are, father side: Gregorio Gutierrez (architect and a painter who was a contemporary of Manansala) and Violeta Lopez Gutierrez (one of the first beauty Queens contestant in Ms. Universe), mother side:  Rafael Almeda Resurreccion and Lydia Honasan Resurreccion. All his grandparents are deceased.

Raffy attended his primary education at Xavier School Greenhills from 1976 - 1985, and also high school at Xavier School from 1986 - 1989. He was most prominently known one of Xavier's most dedicated and committed Boy Scout especially upon achieving the Scout Citizenship Award in 1988. He led the Philippine Scout Delegation as Senior Patrol Leader in the Chiba-Japan Boy Scout Exchange Program. Raffy was also part of the high school's typing team and was the second fastest typist in his batch. He was also the President of the Martial Arts Club in 1989 before graduating high school.

Mr. Gutierrez attended college at the University of the Philippines. He started out in the College of Arts and Letters, pursuing a degree in BA: Creative Writing and shifted to BA: Communication Research in the College of Mass Communication in 1992. He completed his course in Mass Communication in 1994 after getting delayed by a year because of the decision to shift to a different degree. He joined the Alpha Sigma Fraternity in 1991 but never really became active in the Frat.

A steadfast and natural Truth Seeker, Raffy went religion hopping after high school. From being a devout Catholic for most of his life he ended up joining the Opus Dei for about a year, joined mainstream born again fundamentalist group for about 4 years, explored other spiritual traditions thereafter.

He tried a desktop publishing / computer services business right out of college but it didn't work out. He ended up teaching Computer Fundamentals in the College of Mass Communication for around a year (1995) until he found his first corporate job in Hewlett Packard Philippines in September of 1996. He worked in HP as one of its pioneers in the retail channel as the second Retail Account Manager reporting directly to the Consumer Business General Manager.

In 1998 he married his first girlfriend right out of college, this young, beautiful and highly intelligent lady named Cynthia. They both migrated to the US in May of 2000 to start their lives together. They lived together in Hoboken, NJ for around 6 years. Raffy took up a 6 months certificate course to become a Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator and also pursued the A+ Certification. He worked as an IT Professional doing IT consulting and training from 2001-2006 until he became a Microsoft Certified Trainer in 2006. He conducted MCP Training for a non-profit foundation NYPOWERNY where he was the Technology Trainer.

Sadly, his marriage lasted only until 2006 where he and Cynthia decided to get a divorce in 2007. He moved to Jersey City where he lived by himself until he decided to go back to the Philippines in April of 2010.

Back in the Philippines, he worked in HP for a short 6 months in 2010, 3 years in Samsung from 2011-2012, 2 years in Apple from 2014-2016, a half year in WideOut until mid 2017, a year in GTC-Aldis until 2018, a half year in Concepcion Midea, and now presently working in Vivo Philippines.

He has recently embraced secularism and humanism as his life philosophy and is on a mission to help bring reason and critical thinking to fight against the deeply superstitious and religion prone Filipino culture. He is very active on social media and has done some RANT videos that had over 2 million views.