Shawn is from Pleasant Hill, MO. He graduated from the Kansas State University School of Architecture. Shawn has been an architect since 2001 and has served as an adjunct professor of Software and Design Media at the Art Institutes International-Kansas City. With a natural affinity of the outdoors, he enjoys to be as widely traveled as he can be. He enjoys traveling in Latin America, including Costa Rica and Mexico, and on mission trips to Guatemala and especially Ecuador.