Patrick Burls Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

London Area, United Kingdom

In 2024, I took on the role of People Lead at Zuhlke and was responsible for managing 4 software engineers. This involved looking after their career growth, success on projects and performance appraisal.

London, England, United Kingdom

Started at Zuhlke UK working as a Principal Consultant in the Software Engineering Excellence practice.

When the Broadcast Software Engineering teams merged with several Content Platforms teams to form the new Content Supply Platforms department, I successfully took the role of Principal Engineer.My key responsibility in this role was to ensure Software Engineering excellency within the department.My achievements included:- An engineering lead role in the.

London, United Kingdom

Working in the Broadcast Software Engineering department.- Led the analysis and delivery of new strategic solutions to improve Sky’s internal Rights, Scheduling and Publishing systems for both linear and VOD platforms.- A leading role in many new department initiatives to improve technology, delivery and architecture.- Taken an active role to promote.

London, United Kingdom

• Working in the Broadcast Software Engineering department
• Led the development of several new web applications used internally at Sky to manage the delivery of Video on Demand (VOD) assets. Oracle, Asp.Net WebAPI, knockout.js, react.js.
• Worked on several projects to enhance and improve performance of an existing Orchestration system used to automate the VOD content supply chain to numerous platforms. ActiveMQ, WCF, WebAPI, Oracle.
• A lead participant in a department wide “Transformation” initiative. Responsibilities included: - Leading several aspects of a new Continuous Delivery initiative: * Migration from TFS to Git version control system. *.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Co-designed and developed an extensive sports analysis software solution. Included a MVC web application, WCF services and several occasionally connected MVVM WPF client applications.
• Developed a native C++ library of multimedia tools. The library leveraged Microsoft’s Windows Media Foundation and was wrapped by a managed C++ library for use in.NET applications.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Lead developer of a network device discovery and control software application. Multi-platform, C++ and Juce framework.
• Development of a Control Protocol and Stack for media devices.
• Worked on several applications and firmware for embedded devices. C and C++.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Led the development and analysis for new projects and enhancements for an existing custom ticketing system. Including a new mobile solution which integrated several mobile devices and web services.
• Worked on the development and maintenance of many custom web based financial applications and Information Systems. This included the investigation and fixing of bugs in existing systems, and the development of new.
• Contributed to the maintenance of multiple IT solutions, mostly web and database servers.
• Worked in the latest Microsoft development languages such as C#, VB.net and MS-SQL, and used LINQ and MVP frameworks

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Worked on the specifications and plans of various MV and HV installations for construction projects. Namely Willow Bridge extension, Waterfront Link Mall extension and Montague Park in the Cape Town area.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Worked on the manufacture of two “Cable Oil Degasifier” Units for export.Responsibilities included sourcing of parts and installation of automation systems.