Patrick Earl
Brand Strategist
Greater Victoria Metropolitan Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Earl is a Brand Strategist with 15 years of experience helping organizations distill complex operations into clear, actionable brand stories that drive marketing, economic development, and operational alignment. Based in Greater Victoria, he has led end-to-end brand builds and strategic facilitation for governments, non-profits, and SMEs, guiding workshops that unify leadership and frontline voices into a single narrative. His background in economic development and communications—ranging from building a county’s first economic development department to creating recovery strategies and tactical investment brands—gives him a rare blend of place-based strategy and marketing rigor. Patrick pairs creative leadership with hands-on delivery, managing projects from naming and visual identity through award-winning design implementation and measurable ROI. He also brings a technical-minded streak to his practice, contributing full-stack UI improvements to the widely used open-source Git Extensions project, demonstrating comfort bridging design, code, and stakeholder needs. Driven by evidence and collaboration, he focuses on brands that attract investment, support workforce development, and deliver sustained community impact.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Marketing, Digital Marketing at Jelly Academydiploma, Public Relations, diploma, Public Relations at MacEwan UniversityCertificate, Municipal Management and Leadership, Certificate, Municipal Management and Leadership at Alberta School of Business, University of AlbertaProject and Change Management Certificate, Business Administration and Management, General, Project and Change Management Certificate, Business Administration and Management, General at Royal Roads UniversityCertificate, Economic Development, Certificate, Economic Development at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (10)
windows-forms10
gitextensions10
git10
gitk10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
datagridview8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gitextensions/gitextensions
Nov 2010 - Dec 2010
Git Extensions is a standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. It also integrates with Windows Explorer and Microsoft Visual Studio (2015/2017/2019).
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily contributed to the implementation and improvement of the multi-branch push functionality within the Git Extensions UI. This involved modifying the `FormPush` class and its associated designer file, adding new UI elements (like the `NewColumn`) and adjusting existing ones, as well as updating the codebase to handle multiple branches during pushing. The user's work extended to integrating changes from the 'master' branch and refining the user interface for a more intuitive experience.
repositoriesmicrosoft-visual-studiowindowsgit-clientgitextensions
nhibernate/nhibernate-core
Nov 2010 - Aug 2014
NHibernate Object Relational Mapper
Contributions:227 commits, 2 PRs, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
poconhibernate-developersc-sharplinqorm
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