Manolo P. Binuya graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Technological Institute of the Philippines – Manila (TIP-M) in 1991 and with a degree in Master of Engineering Program from the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in 2014. He is a Registered Electrical Engineer and a member of the Institute of Integrated Electrical Engineers of the Philippines (IIEE). 

Before joining UST in 2001, he served as a Missionary Lay Volunteer with Salesians of Don Bosco Mission School in Papua New Guinea and he worked as Industrial Electrician with Samsung Engineering Construction Company in Formosa, Taiwan. 

He has served as  Program Supervisor in the Institute of Technological Courses (ITC) of UST Faculty of Engineering and as Engineering Community Service Coordinator for the UST Office for Community Development (OCD). 

Currently, he is the Community Development Coordinator for the UST Simbahayan (formerly OCD).