Office of Communications: Personnel
Janet Frazier
Give her a few seconds, and Janet Frazier is back at her childhood home, big game hunting with her parents in the jungles of India.
"I was born in India, when it was under British rule," Janet said, "and returned to my family's home in England when I was 15.
"My mom would tell my children [Belinda and Avery] so many wonderful stories, and they were true. I don't think any of us will ever forget them."
A world away from her native homes of India and England, Janet now makes Web sites come alive for the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences from the Tifton campus.
As a web developer, she designs, maintains and updates Web sites for various CAES departments. It's her goal, she said, to make each of her clients feel like their Web site is the most important.
On her list of freshly redesigned Web sites are poultry science, entomology and animal and dairy science. She's currently working on updating the department Web site for agricultural leadership, education and communication and the institute for plant breeding, genetics and genomics.
When she settled in Tifton, Janet started the first of her almost 23 years with the University of Georgia as a secretary for the veterinary medicine program. A move to the Office of Communications had her answering the phones and filing paperwork until then unit head Barry Jones asked her to "do web work."
"Secretarial work was dying out anyway," she said. "People were doing their own work, and it left me more time for the web."
Janet spends her down time in Tifton gardening and raking and burning leaves from her many oak trees. She also enjoys reading and attending her church. And, sometimes in her dreams, she's back to one of the many places she has lived and visited throughout the world.