Alex Ball Email & Phone Number

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Baltimore, Maryland Area

As part of Mindgrub's WordPress development team, I work to build out effective, performant sites to the highest coding standards. We're so good at WordPress, in fact, that in 2019, Mindgrub became a WordPress VIP partner.Mindgrub unlocks human potential. We partner with our clients to create technology that people love to use, and that positions our.

Look, I love doing design work from the ground up. But in the majority of the projects I’m presented with, it’s not in the client’s best interests to pay for a complete bespoke design when they could purchase a great-looking and well-constructed theme for a fraction of the cost and use the leftover budget for deeper development and enhancement of their.

- Experience as a manager, supervising the web team’s production assistant- Helped oversee two separate major site migrations to Drupal—one from WordPress, the other from a static ASP site- Helped manage and contribute to a comprehensive theme and layout redesign, contributing direct content and feature development as well as acting as de facto project.

- Successfully rescued publication’s website from a suboptimal, proprietary CMS and switched to Drupal.- Designed and developed a custom Drupal theme.- Leveraged scalability of Drupal to handle increased site traffic.- Performed a complete site redesign to accommodate increased content and create additional advertising opportunities.- Created and managed.

- Was responsible for copyediting and proofreading all magazine editorial content, as well as final printer proof checks.- Managed house style guide, updated and created rules when necessary.- Wrote long-running bi-monthly “Big Wheels” car review column.- Authored multiple cover stories, including “Power Schools,” which generated landmark reader discussion.

B.A., English, Writing

High School

Activities and Societies: Literary magazine, Speech and Debate Team, Tennis