Shawn Sullivan joined the ALS Therapy Development Institute in 2006 to help build web applications and the web presence for the Institute and many of its fundraising efforts. Specifically, Shawn is working to expand the web functionality of the Institute's drug discovery pipeline, the process database system they use to identify, evaluate, select and rank candidate drugs for testing. Shawn is also the lead developer for the Precision Medicine Program web portal which participants use to interact with their data. Shawn spent five years as a software developer at IMN Inc., where he helped clients such as Cisco Systems, Progress Software, and Parametric Technology develop custom newsletters. He also has experience building Android apps, and in QA (quality assurance). Shawn attended Wentworth Institute of Technology.