Brief Biography
- 1976
- Born on the 25th of June in Hamburg, Germany as the daughter of Kristina Samuel Schulz (nurse) and Dr. Samuel Cornelius Roberts (medical doctor)
- 1984
- Moved to Libya (Sahara) with my mother to join my father who was given a high position as chief med. for an international oil company
- 1984-1991
- Received private education to compensate for the lack of formal schooling possibilites in the Sahara as well as a ten-hour-per-day Tennis training drilling
- 1991-1992
- Lived in Malta for one and a half years. Started international Tennis career and was featured in the WTA
- 1992-1995
- Fled back to Hamburg with my mother leaving my father behind. Started apprenticeship as pharmaceutical assistant
- 1995
- Graduated as pharmaceutical assistant
- 1995-1996
- Went to school for a year to receive a formal secondary school/junior high certificate and graduated 2 months early
- 1996-1999
- Worked as pharmaceutical assistant in a pharmacy in Hamburg, Germany
- 1999-2001
- Went to school (a-levels) for three years and graduated with university-entrance diploma
- 2000
- First craven attempts to understand the web. Created my first websites, learned HTML and vBulletin in order to create of what is now the largest international unofficial Pearl Jam forum community to date
- 2001
- Invitation to study at Oxford University (Great Britain) in the field of English philology and literature. I did not take advantage of it due to having to take care of my mother (handicapped)
- 2001-2004
- Studied Latin and Greek philology, philosophy and English literature at the University of Hamburg while self-educating myself in the field of art and web standards oriented webdesign simultaneously
- 2005-present
- Fully dedicated myself to the field of webdesign (self-employed)
Technical skillset
- Markup languages: X(HTML)
- Presentational languages: CSS
- Scripting languages: ECMA script (intermediate level)
- Content Management Systems: Typo3, Textpattern, Wordpress, ExpressionEngine
- Digital Graphic Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator
- Flash level: Intermediate
- Currently studying: Actionscript, DOM scripting