Brian and Sean

in contrast to other people pages, this covers both Brian and Sean as they are so often mentioned together, 
==Aliases==
==Bio==
=== Brian McDonnell ===
Brian is an entrepeneur specialised in software development, high performance scalable web architectures and social gaming.http://wiki.utopia-game.com/index.php?title=Brian_%26_Sean on 07/04/24
Brian McDonnell, was head of development at Jolt Online Gaminghttps://www.independent.ie/business/irish/serial-entrepreneurs-launch-start-up-lab/26880803.html on 07/04/24 and had considerable experience in building technical development teamshttps://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/employment/case-study-front-square-1.606021 on 07/04/24.
=== Sean Blanchfield ===
Technology entrepreneur and games industry survivor, based in Dublin, Ireland.
Sean began starting companies at 19, beginning with a web 1.0 consultancy in the mid 90s, through to Phorest (a company initially specializing in early mobile messaging in 2000 that now provides technology to the beauty salon industry, led by Ron Perceval ).
He co-founded DemonWare with Dylan Collins in 2003, specializing in online video gaming. He said he "had an amazing time hiring geniuses, inventing new technology to solve hard problems, throwing wild parties on double-decker buses in LA, and getting to work with the best companies in the business on popular Playstation and Xbox games like Guitar Hero and Call of Duty."https://seanblanchfield.com/about/ on 07/04/24 DemonWare was acquired by Activision Blizzard in 2007, when Brian was 27 and he remained involved for around 18 months as a VP while Demonware grew to have hundreds of staff in Dublin, Vancouver, Montreal and Shanghai supporting Activision's online technology. 
Sean then focused on web-based social gaming, and alongside Brian re-engineered and ran Utopia. 
Sean was consulting Chief Technology Officer for Jolt Online in 2010 (also founded by Collinshttps://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/sean-blanchfield-interview-pagefair on 07/04/24), after its acquisition by GameStop.
He gave the keynote speech at Python Ireland Conference on October 14th 2012 and gave a TEDx talk on intellectual property in 2013. 
=== Joint Activities ===
In 2009 Brian and Sean teamed up buy Utopia from Jolt. Sean believed Utopia was the longest running game of its kind and described the playerbase as "extremely dedicated"
In 2011 Brian and Sean co-founded Front Square with Geoff Beggshttps://www.independent.ie/business/irish/forty-under-40-the-youngturks-and-tycoons-of-tomorrow/26895918.html on 07/04/24 and built a multiplayer social game and gamified platform to teach the principles of Lean Six Sigma, but were unsuccessful due to a long sales cycle.. In 2012 Brian and Sean regrouped as Scale Front, a venture lab that filtered 50 business ideas down to 5 product launches, and produced 2 businesses. One of these businesses, PageFair, soon became our core focus. They built PageFair into a digital media brand, focused on adblocking and advertising sustainability. In November 2018, PageFair was acquired by Blockthrough Inc.
==Achievements==
Brian and Sean rewrote the whole of Utopia into Python and Django in 2009.
Sean and Brian have mutliple patents relating to preventing tampering in electronic communications and image obsficationhttps://patents.justia.com/inventor/sean-blanchfield on 07/04/24. 
==Associated Kingdoms and Alliances==
Brian and Sean said that they played in ghettos to understand the player experiencehttps://blog.utopia-game.com/post/10812385440/development-update-and-qa-27-may-2009 on 07/04/24.
==Controversies==
==Personal life==
Brian and Sean were classmates at Education: Trinity College Dublin, where they met Dylan Collins and Ronan Perceval.
Brian has worked in or run a number of other companies/organisations including:
* PageFair (CEO and co-founder), helping web publishers stop revenue loss due to adblocking. PageFair was acquired by Blockthrough in late 2018. 
* Demonware (technical cofounder), provided technology for video games, including Call of Duty and Guitar Hero. Demonware was acquired by Activision in 2007. 
* Techpreneurs (founder and co-organizer), an invite-only monthly meetup for Irish technology founders.
* Dogpatch Labs- Irish national startup accelerator programme
* Nuium - consulting projects, open source and voluntary development, IoT R&D. 
Brian said he has plans to launch an IoT accelerator and lab, with a focus on B2B climate-tech and agri-tech.
Sean had previously studied at Greenshills Comprehensive College