About The Designer

Lynn Jatania, Sweet Smart Designer

 

Lynn Jatania

I’ve been designing sites on the web and generating web content since 1998. I’ve been working specifically with WordPress customization since 2010. I enjoy melding my technical skills, love of design, and strong communication skills to create exciting projects for my clients. I am highly organized, detail oriented, and I get the job done.

Let me combine creativity, technical skills, great writing, and professionalism to create a website that will make you proud.

Portfolio

See samples of my work in my Portfolio.

Professional Experience

From 1994 through 2002 I worked as a software developer, at Financial Models Company, OmniMark Technologies, and Nortel Networks. At Nortel I moved from embedded coding to web-based design, as I developed browser-based interfaces to telecom systems. I was able to use my personal experience with HTML, JavaScript, and JSPs to build a new kind of software interface for Nortel.

From 1998 through the present I have developed my online presence through my entertainment magazine website, Sidekick (1998-2004), and my personal blog, which I have been writing since 2004. I have grown to be an established member of the social media community and am a respected expert at WordPress; I also host the Summer of Awesome blog carnival each summer.

In 2009, I created and organized a new event for Ottawa area bloggers, Blog Out Loud. It is an one-night event where twenty-one bloggers read their favourite post from the past year out loud, and photo bloggers display their art. This event has grown annually to include over 100 bloggers and I continue to be the chief facilitator and promoter each year.

Networking with other bloggers led to offers for design work. I have been designing headers and helping with WordPress customizations for friends and family since 2009.

I also work as a freelance writer for non-web based publications. My writing has been published in the Ottawa Citizen and Ottawa Parenting Times Magazine.

Education

I have a B. Eng. from the University of Waterloo.

Contact

You can contact me directly at lynn@sweetsmartdesign.com.