Liam Burnand

Liam Burnand
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Years Active	2021 – Present
Positions Held	Deputy Computing Director
Hometown	Thatcham, West Berkshire
Degrees	MEng Computer Science

About

Liam is an active member of YSTV, primarily the computing team, since 2021. In the first few days of joining, he fixed the transmission light which had not been working properly/at all since who knows when. Will Stirk then referred to his as the "Arduino guy" for his use of an Arduino in the transmission light.

In November 2021, Liam was elected as the Deputy Computing Director after only joining the month before.

Not long after getting admin privileges on the YSTV servers, Liam started breaking anything that wasn't bullet proof, web server (multiple times including managing to delete Nginx) and moss server (rebooted and failed to restart docker).

Coding skills/Computing proficiency

• Java
• Python
• C++ (Arduino coding specifically)
• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript (still learning)
• SQL (MySQL and PostgreSQL)
• Go
• SSH
• CMD
• Windows Desktop/Server
• Ubuntu
• MacOS

Productions

These are the list of productions/livestreams Liam has taken part in.

Year 1 (2021-2022)

#	Show	Position	Description
Autumn Term
1	Women's Football: York vs Sheffield (21/10/2021)	Livestream Distribution (Shadowing)	Running around getting the router working.
2	Men's Football: York vs Huddersfield (21/10/2021)	Livestream Distribution (Shadowing)	Not doing much as everything was done earlier that day for the women's football.
3	American Football: York Centurions vs Northumbria Mustangs (21/11/2021)	Livestream Distribution	Livestream was working, basically none of the cameras were working, massive disaster.
4	Boxing Fight Night 2021 (27/11/2021)	Livestream Distribution	Minus the fact that the stream kept cutting after VT switching, it was successful.
5	YSTV Christmas Variety Show 2021 (3/12/2021)	Livestream Technician	I did basically nothing so it was just a nice chilled event, bit rate was low but the ATEM had been "Millinged".
Spring Term
6	Yindoors 2022 (15/01/2022)	Livestream Distribution	This was a rather exciting stream as we had frisbees thrown at us and almost hit us, I had to go on the cameras because it was a long day, I had a lot of fun. Stream only went down once so it was overall successful.
7	UYDS 22 Comp (29/01/2022)	Livestream Distribution	The stream was a complete failure, the linking of the ATEM Mini's caused there to be a delay with the camera feeds, the transcoders kept crashing and strm7 was a big problem because it's so underpowered.
8	TV on the Radio - Apocalypse Edition (06/02/2022)	Camera OP	It was a pretty simple shoot as I was simply moving the camera and making sure we had a good shot, it was fun to listen to how a radio shoot is done.
9	Volleyball (09/02/2022)	Livestream Distribution/Livestream Technician	The stream itself went well and was fun, we just had to protect ourselves and the kit from getting hit with flying balls.
10	Boxing Fight Night 2022 (05/03/2022)	Livestream Technician	This was a fun night to watch after getting everything sorted for the show, I learned from mistakes from the previous term and everything went smoothly.
11	College Varsity Rugby 2022 (06/03/2022)	Livestream Distribution	This show was more of a last minute that we were ready for, just about got live but had camera issues including people getting in the way of the cameras.
12	College Varsity Darts 2022 (06/03/2022)	Livestream Distribution	After getting set up, the darts people were just not that bothered about streams so it was more just fun for us in the end.
13	TV on the Radio (13/03/2022)	Guest	This was me, Joe Radford and Cooper Roy just having fun, talking on the radio about random things and having a good laugh.
14	NaSTA Awards Ceremony 2022 (02/04/2022)	Livestream Distribution/Livestream Technician	The amount of problems we had with getting everything set up was immense, the stream server didn't want to work and audio and patches were a joke, in the end we started roughly 45 minutes later and we all had a good evening except for Ben Allen who was stressed to no end and worrying about everything. All in all, it was a good stream and we had fun. I unfortunately didn't get to test out my streaming software as we bypassed the server in the end.
15	The Morning After Show 2022 (03/04/2022)	Livestream Distribution	This was the first time I was able to use my new software I had created, "Streamer", and it simplified Livestream Distribution to the point that anyone could then use it. I wasn't able to stay until the end as I had packing and a train to catch later that day but in the end, it all worked.
Summer Term