Cheryl Fuerte

Since late 2004, she has lived in Hong Kong where she works for Asian Entertainment e-commerce website YesAsia.

• Name — Cheryl Fuerte • Education — De La Salle University (BS)

While studying computer science at the De La Salle University College of Computer Studies in Manila in 1996, Fuerte started making websites, first her personal website and then a fan-based website for her favorite singer Donna Cruz as testing grounds for her university assignments. The websites were made well, and started getting many visits. Soon the fan-based website for Cruz became the official website of the singer-actress, for which it received multiple national web awards. Being a repeat winner in the Philippine Web Awards, and having won multiple national web awards defeating companies and corporate website entries at such a young age of 21, influencing up and coming Filipino web designers, Fuerte was featured and interviewed by various publications and media in the Philippines. She was interviewed in Studio 23's Digital Tour and talked about "how Filipinos, regardless of their status, can utilize the Internet to share their knowledge and establish oneself". She was featured at Studio 23's morning show, Breakfast, in December 2000. She was also featured in The Web Philippines Magazines feature, "Top Ten Web Artists To Watch Out For", the Manila Times article "Webmasters of the Universe", Chalk Magazine FemaleNetwork.com, JobStreet.com, and Cosmopolitan Philippines, among many others. She gave back to the young web designers community by being an original co-founding member of PhilWeavers from 1999 to 2003, the biggest and oldest web design organization in the Philippines, along with other Filipino artists such as Gerry Alanguilan, Cynthia Bauzon-Arre, Jose Illenberger, and Drew Europeo.