Sean Neilan

Summary

Excellent Computer Science, mathematical and planning abilities. Works hard finds the best way to build software. Strong social and communication skills. Solid understanding of internet’s impact on bottom line.

Current Status

• Research assistant to Prof. Noriko Tomuro from DePaul University on a BioNLP project.
• President of DePaul University Computer Science Society/ACM Chapter

Selected Accomplishments

Broodwar Standard Add-on Library

• Started pybwsal to convert the Broodwar Standard Add-on Library (BWSAL) to python.

Freelance Engineer for Emilia Apostolova

• Helped publish a paper to LREC 2010 conference.
• Helped build Djangology, a web app for distributed collaborative annotation and computing inter-annotation agreement.

Metrist Partners

• Built automated marketing report generation system in PHP that enabled Metrist Partners to save over 20 hours of data analysis per client per month.
• Built Javascript website user tracking software that enabled Metrist Partners to provide more marketing insights to their clients.
• Built quick python scripts that rapidly inserted tracking software into websites with hundreds of html pages.
• Helped increased productivity by 20% by hiring two employees.

Highland Park High School

• Wrote a paper in Senior year history class that convinced the History Department Dean to ban citations of Wikipedia.
• Received $1000 Mark Lambrecht Computer Science Scholarship for excellence in engineering.
• 2007 Student Honor Dinner award recipient for improvement of social abilities and vast progression out of special education program.

Web Developer
Congregation Solel, Highland Park IL

• Helped increased sales of tickets for events by 20% by writing proposal and building system to accept ticket sales online.

Volunteer
IT Technician/Graphic Designer
Glenkirk, Northbrook IL

• Secured computers by removing spyware from networks consistently for 5 years.
• Helped raise $122,195 by designing invitations and posters for the 2007 “Beyond the Sea” Gala.
• 2007 Volunteer of the Year Award.

Poetry Contest

• Honorable Mention in Ginza Festival Haiku Contest at the Midwest Buddhist Temple in Chicago, IL during August 2005. (See second page of related PDF.)

Programming Contest

• Won second place at a DePaul Computer Science Society programming contest.

General

Programming Languages
Python/Perl/PHP/Ruby, Java, HTML/Javascript/CSS, C, C++, Visual Basic .NET

Databases
MySQL 5 & 4, PostgreSQL 8

Operating Systems
Windows, Linux, Mac. Currently running Ubuntu 9.10 with Xmonad

Various Frameworks & Pieces of Software
Django, Django-Piston, GWT, GWT Restlet, CakePHP, Drupal, Wordpress, Jquery, Google Analytics, Google Adwords API, Apache 2.2, Subversion & Trac Administration, C Win32 API, Metamap, Android development