Lynda Susan Weinman (born January 24, 1955) is an American business owner, computer instructor, and author, who founded an online software training website, lynda.com, with her husband, Bruce Heavin.

Weinman, with self-taught computer skills, worked in the film industry as a special effects animator, and became a faculty member at ArtCenter College of Design, UCLA, American Film Institute, and San Francisco State University multimedia studies program teaching computer graphics, animation, interactive design, and motion graphics.

She worked on several films, including RoboCop 2 (1990),[8] Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989),[9] and Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989).

Weinman taught digital media and motion graphics at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California from 1989 to 1996.

[10][11][12][13] The Lynda.com Online Training Library taught computer skills in video format to members through monthly and annual subscription-based plans.

[19] In 2013, Lynda.com acquired video2brain, an Austrian-based provider of online classes in web design and programming, available in German, French, Spanish, and English languages.

[citation needed] Lynda.com and United Digital Artists Productions, Inc. (UAD) co-founded the Flashforward Conferences and the Flash Film Festival, which first took place in 1999.