Jeff Deskins Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Us

My freelance work where I develop scalable web applications for clients using the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. Have previously streamlined television station workflows by providing easy-to-use interfaces to manage high school football scores, schedules, and weather closings. This dynamically created thousands of team pages and a 3x increase in pageviews and ad revenue for stations.Evaluate and test new Google Cloud products and make recommendations as needed. Work with Google engineers, product managers, and other developers to help make a better product.

Brentwood, Tennessee, Us

CLOUD ARCHITECT (June 2016 - Sept 2023)Provide guidance to teams with their cloud products and develop cloud computing strategies. Improved deployment times from 30 minutes to 3 minutes to production. Assisted with migration to Kubernetes, resulting in over 1,000 containers deployed across different clusters. Stay up-to-date on the latest trends and best practices in cloud development. Work with serverless and containers.SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (January 2015 - May 2016)Member of the Consumer Platform team creating services around ePubs. Streamlined the build process by introducing Docker, which is now being used by many of the teams. Write backend API services in Scala.

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

Member of a team implementing a decision support service that streamlines the diagnostic process with blood cancers, saving time for both the patient and the medical center.Updated existing applications with modern technologies which improved load-time performance, usability, and maintainability.

Brentwood, Tennessee, Us

Developed applications using Agile Methodologies and Test Driven Development (TDD) as a member of the Internet Technologies Department.Oversaw development of several innovative projects as Tech Lead, using Spring, Hibernate, Java, MySQL and Eclipse IDE. Also managed off-shore resources that were assisting with development efforts.Worked on development team for total re-write of LifeWay.com site using IBM Websphere Commerce, Java, and JUnit.

Kuwait City, Farwaniya, Kw

Developed web-based applications for Nashville client that streamlined their business workflow.

Built Internet/Intranet sites for clients using ColdFusion, Microsoft ASP, SQL Server, HTML, JavaScript, Photoshop and Flash.

Created application written in ColdFusion for First American National Bank that helped streamline the workflow to enable staff to sell insurance.

Worldwide, Oo

Successfully provided Fortune 500 companies with many Internet and Intranet solutions for their business needs. Created application using ASP and SQL Server to allow sales personnel to search and view sales statistics, automating a previously manual process.Developed a content management application for Deloitte to manage press releases on their Internet site.

Bowling Green, Ky, Us

Developed and maintained several Internet sites for Fruit of the Loom's distributors that had online ordering capabilities. Handled Webmaster duties, which included maintaining and updating several sites, such as: Fruit.com, FruitActivewear.com, BVD.com, CumberlandBay.com, FTL-Systems.com, FTLCountryFest.com

Started a video production company with broadcast-quality equipment. Produced several videos including hour-long television show with 16 Miss Americas for the Boys and Girls Club of America. Other projects included shooting for ESPN, ABC News, and USA Network.

Senior News Photographer shooting several daily news stories plus special series. Covered many stories and people, including President Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and Vice President Dan Quayle. Events included Fiesta Bowl, college basketball conference tournaments and drug raids.Created the station's first Internet site - which was also the first commercial television station website in the state.Won an Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for shooting a documentary on Rural Healthcare in West Virginia. Also won 1st Place Best Spot News by the WV Associated Press for covering the coal mine strikes.

Anchored afternoon newscasts and reported.

Anchored afternoon newscasts and reported.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Broadcasting

Computer Science