Designing the dreams…

With her inspirational lifestory, through which she proves that sky is the limit, 13-year old Sreelakshmi Suresh is now the CEO of two firms and the toast of the international web designing community.  

“Computer is my best friend even from my early childhood. When I heard about a boy who developed a website, and my parents told me that I too can do like that, I stepped into the world of web designing”. 

At the age of three she started using computer; she began designing websites at the age of six, designed her schools website at the age of eight, now she is the CEO of two firms and the only member of the Association of American Webmasters under 18 years of age.

Don’t think that this is just another tall story. The name Sreelakshmi Suresh subsumed all the above labeled attributes and much more. Sreelakshmi, like her peers, likes to play with friends and watch cartoon channels. But what made her different is nothing but her passion for websites.

Sreelakshmi Suresh is the daughter of Adv. Suresh Menon, lawyer at the Calicut Bar, and Viju Suresh. Now she is studying in 9 th standard at Presentation Higher Secondary School, Calicut. This little prodigy has already designed and developed more than 50 websites.

Her tryst with the web designing triggered even from early childhood. It all started at the age of three, when her father Suresh Menon showed her a websites designed by a young boy and told her if she is interested she can also do it, thus paved the way for Sreelakshmi in to the world of web designing.

“My father showed me a website designed by a boy and told me that I too can do like that; I stepped into the world of web designing” says Sreelakshmi. “Since my school did not have an official site, I took it as a challenge to design one, I designed my first website for my school www.presentationhss.com while I was 8 years old”, she added. The website provides information about the school and it allows parent to seek reports on their children.

Lauding her, the Presentation school headmistress Sister Roselit said: “She is an inspiration for grown-ups as well. I must say our school is blessed to have such a talent”.

Awards are nothing new to Sreelakshmi. She could probably be the youngest webmaster girl in the world but the Association of American Webmasters, which enrolled her as a member, testifies that she is its youngest and the only member below 18.

“We found your website to be very professional for a young lady of your age. You have a bright future ahead of you with web design” AAW chief executive officer Donna Snyder notes in her membership approval letter.

In 2008, she started her own web designing company eDesign Technologies, which offers a full circle approach in website design and web development. 

She became the Jt. Managing partner of Online Pixel Traders in 2009. She also works as the CEO of a media publishing firm-Transmute Media Solutions. 

This little genius has already won more than 40 national and international awards such as Global Internet Directories Gold Award, the Golden Web Award, Association of National Webmasters Merit Award, National child Award for the exceptional achievement, Lions International Young Achiever Award, Rotary International Young Achiever Award, Swadeshi Science Congress Excellence Award etc.

In 2008, she won the National Child Award for exceptional Achievement, the highest award in India for children, instituted by the Government of India.

The websites, which Sreelakshmi designed, speak for it self about her omnifarious concern in each and every details of the development process. Her discernments and the lucid attitude of mind are probably could help her on the nick of the time to take an apt decision as CEO.

For Sreelakshmi, studies are still her first priority, but she is sure that it does not deter her pet dreams- to develop an operating system which is more user friendly than any OS available at present.

With a virtuous smile, that always adorns her face, this little genius remembering us if we are confident that we are competent and prepared to work hard, we can achieve anything.

… Kudos to Sreelashmi, she proves that age is no more a big deal for achieving great things. 

This appeared in GenNext India