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 Sean Gillies
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:Email:     sean.gillies@gmail.com
:Address:   935 Bungalow Ct
            Fort Collins, CO 80521
            USA
:Telephone: +1 970 690 1221
:Web Site:  http://sgillies.net/
:Updated:   2010-02-18

Professional Experience
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Software Engineer
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Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, New York,
NY, July 2008-Present:

- Designing and developing the Concordia citation and data exchange network.
- Designing new applications needed to support ancient studies.
- Operation of Pleiades.

Software Developer
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Ancient World Mapping Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC,
2006-2008:

- Designed and deployed infrastructure for open source development, including
  Linux, Apache, Trac, Subversion, LDAP, PostgreSQL.
- Designed and deployed a web workspace based on Python, Zope, and Plone.
- Developed C/C++ and Python software in support of the Pleiades workspace.
- Developed test suites and deployment buildouts to ensure quality and
  reliability. Conducted code and development milestone reviews.
- Grew an international community of open source software Python, Zope, and
  Plone developers around the Shapely, Rtree, zgeo.geographer,
  zgeo.spatialindex, zgeo.atom, and zgeo.kml components of Pleiades.
- Grew an international community around discussion of Web architecture, REST,
  and geospatial applications.
- Particpated in the development of GeoJSON format specification.
- Represented Pleiades at Plone, GIS, and humanities conferences.

GIS Consultant and Web Applications Developer
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Geospatial Solutions, Fort Collins, CO, 2002-2006:

- Designed and implemented customized solutions based on Linux, Apache,
  PostgreSQL, and Python.
- Consulted on modeling, acquisition, and processing of geospatial data.
- Contributed to the University of Minnesota MapServer and GEOS projects.
- Launched the Python Cartographic Library, PrimaGIS, and GIS-Python projects.

Image Analyst and Applications Developer
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Information Integration & Imaging LLC, Fort Collins, CO, 1999-2002:

- Developed workflows and software for distributed image processing.
- Administered web, email, and database servers.
- Introduced use of Perl, MapServer, Zope, and revision management using CVS.

Education
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- 1992-1999: Colorado State University, M.S., Atmospheric Science, 1995.
- 1987-1991: University of Utah, B.S., Physics, 1991.

Publications
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Elliot, T. and Gillies, S. "Digital Geography and Classics". Digital Humanities
Quarterly: Changing the Center of Gravity: Transforming Classical Studies
Through Cyberinfrastructure, Volume 3 Number 1 (Winter 2009):
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/1/000031/000031.html.

Ackerman, Andrew, et al. Proceedings of the international conference: using new
technologies to explore cultural heritage ... = Atti del convegno
internazionale : nuove tecnologie per. [Washington] (USA): National endowment
for humanities, 2009.

Additional Work
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Teaching web developers, designers, systems administrators, and information
scientists about spatially enabling web projects and building service-oriented
GIS infrastructure on the faculty of the University of Virginia Scholars Lab's
Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship:
http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/geospatial/.

Leading design and development of open source software for the next generation
of geographic information systems on the web: http://gispython.org.

Development and editing of the GeoJSON format specification:
http://geojson.org/geojson-spec.html.

Open Source Software Projects
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Rtree [1_], Shapely [2_], geojson [3_].

.. _1: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Rtree
.. _2: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Shapely
.. _3: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/geojson