Virginia Roper

Web Developer

AKA. The Jackhammer

Virginia attended college at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she graduated with a BFA in Communication Arts and a minor in Computer Science. She began her career with the web in 2000, when she became the webmaster for the VCU School of Nursing Department of Adult Health, and continued as such until 2005. She worked as a web designer/developer with Internet Connection, a web and hosting company located in Easton, MD, from 2003-2004. In that position Virginia transitioned from doing primarily front-end work (design, along with HTML and CSS) to back-end work as well (including SQL and Perl). From there she did a complete turnabout and took a position with Old World Prints, a home décor publishing company, where she worked as a watercolor reproduction artist from 2004 – 2008. After that, Virginia moved on to start VA Roper Web Design and Development, where her focus was building websites for small companies. During this time she developed PHP skills, along with becoming familiar with both Wordpress and Drupal.

Her range of skills include interactive design (Photoshop, CSS, HTML, Javascript), development (PHP, MySQL), frameworks (CakePHP, CodeIgniter) and working with & developing for Content Management Systems (including Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, and a custom one she built).

In her offtime, Virginia enjoys hiking, writing, cooking, writing about cooking, painting and reading.