Loves to dance (mom says she has rythm!), to write and to draw all over the house
1982
Dreams of being movie director
1984
Enters FAAP
to follow Industrial Design/Visual Communications courses
Begin of 1987
Joins a Publicity Agency as Intern
While scratching Letraset transfers, she hears about something called Macintosh that would
transfer typos for her some day
End of 1987
Amazes herself reading “Art & Visual Perception”, by Rudolph Arnheim
Gets her Bachelor Degree in Visual Communications
1988
Works as free-lancer in visual communication
1989 - mid 1997
Brazil & a bit of USA
1989
Starts working for Publishing Solution do Brasil,
the Brazilian representative of the former Interleaf, Inc. from Waltham, Massachussets
First steps in front of a PC, learning desktop publishing
Dives into desktop publishing and structured programming design
Begins Lisp programming and is introduced to SQL
1990 - 1994
Technical Manager
Conception of the training material and method for Interleaf products
Pre and after sales technical support for Interleaf products
In 1990 she follows Master level studies at the Economics & Administration
School of the University of São Paulo in R&D Marketing and Business Negotiation
Plays with SGML
Dives into technical documentation standards as IATA, NDA, ISO
Growing love for programming and databases
Exchanges her water colors and air-brush for oil painting
1994 - mid 1997
Web Designer & Frontend developer
Web site design & conception
Totally dives into the web, learning the basis of Internet, HTML and Perl
Works for the first site of the biggest bank in Brazil,
the Banco Bradesco. She adapts the client's visual identity to the web and develops the HTML
pages, including CGI/Perl development
End 1997 - 2013
France
November 1997
Moves to Lille, France
1998
Free-lance web designer/frontend developer
CGI/Perl development, web site optimisation, web mastering, web design
She begins to play with javascript
2001
Web Designer at Atos Worldline
2004
Expected to be already rich (expectations postponed to 2030)
“Designing with Web Standards”, by Jeffrey Zeldman. Just that
Introduces to her team CSS Design and starts an in-house promotion of web standards
Dicovers the joy of designing on the browser and makes it part of a whole new web design process
Along with her team, she launches Kawwa (not online anymore), a portal giving
access to a library of HTML markup patterns
2011
Begins to play with Responsive Web Design and promotes it in every web project
Kawwa goes open source (unfortunately for a very brief time before being shut off)
2013
Advocates for a new in-house web design process
She has the honour of being invited to join a group of 10 web developers and designers to
take part in the Line-mode Browser Dev days at CERN, Switzerland
She goes 103m down to meet the Large Hadron Collider, where the Higgs Boson was discovered
From 2014 to today
France
2016
Makes her personal web site a Progressive Web Application (PWA)
February 2019
Have the huge privilege to be invited a second time to CERN,
this time to help in recreating the Nexus web browser,
the first visual browser created by Tim Berners-Lee
