Virginia Kimble Vardaman
Drupal Developer
Jackson, MS 39202
kimble@vardaman.com
(601) 609-0120

Highlights

Drupal, Moodle, Jenzabar, Wordpress, HTML, CSS, XML, PHP, JSON, AJAX, MySQL, JavaScript, Perl, jQuery, Git, Composer, Drush, SASS, Twig, AMP stacks, Photoshop

• 20+ years of experience in Web development
• 15+ years of experience maintaining large, multifaceted websites
• 10+ years of Drupal developer experience (4.x,5.x,6.x,7.x,8.x)
• Gifted troubleshooter
• Inventive at merging technologies for maximum efficiency and effectiveness
• Thorough grasp of content management systems

Work Experience

Webmaster, Tougaloo College - Tougaloo, MS
March 2013 to September 2019

• Maintained two large Drupal 7 websites, including performing updates, designing new functionality and content editing
• Helped to manage our Moodle LMS and web-based components ofJenzabar ERP
• Advised and assisted departments using web-based solutions from 3rd party vendors

Webmaster, Fox 40/WDBD (Jackson Broadcasting LLC)
August 2010 to November 2012

• Guided staff through web traffic increase from 300K to over 900K page views per month
• Awarded Best Website by the Mississippi Associated Press Broadcasters Association
• Collaborated with IT staff to increase efficiency and efficacy of vendor products previously underutilized
• Managed all aspects of Fox 40 website, including content strategy, ad delivery, traffic analysis, custom programming
• Trained journalists in optimum content post methodology

Online Production Supervisor, The Clarion-Ledger - Jackson, MS
March 2002 to May 2010

• Developed processes that became standard and used nationally at Gannett
• Received Gannett Chairman’s Award for web innovations created for Hurricane Katrina coverage
• Developed projects that tapped underdeveloped potential for high school sports coverage
• Guided site through growth from 35K page views to 1M page views per month
• Trained and supervised a 3 person staff
• Converted multiple sites from flat-file to content management system
• Designed user interfaces
• With my staff, built and maintained 8 websites

Education

Debug Academy/ Drupal 8 Certification
June 2019 - August 2019, Virginia

Led by Drupal Grandmaster and former Acquia engineer, Ashraf Abed, this rigorous course reinforced and expanded my knowledge of common usage and Drupal 8 best practices for the following technae: Composer, Drush, Drupal Console, Git commands & Git workflows, SASS, Twig, custom module development and working within a remote development environment.