Shaun has been with CSU since the Fall of 2006 working with and among many different departments and colleges on multidisciplinary research
projects involving federal agencies and national laboratories, as well as
foreign governments and the United Nations. She has served on and
currently serves on many university committees at all levels and is a member of
the Civil and Environmental Engineering Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
committee.

Shaun has 15 years of experience in applied software engineering for large scale
modeling and simulation research involving temporal, spatial, biological, and
environmental factors. She also has over 30 years of experience in
software engineering, software engineering management, project development, SQL
programming, database design, systems integration, client/server design and
development, and parallel and distributed computing.

Shaun has 7 years of military experience (between the Army and
Air Force) and an extensive background working with government entities within
the U.S. state and federal levels, as well as with foreign governments. She
also has experience working with and coordinating joint research projects
involving multiple foreign governments with the United Nations and US federal
agencies jointly. Shaun has worked as the designated subject matter
expert (SME) for the UN-FAO/EuFMD Commission for modeling and simulation of
infectious livestock diseases for projects abroad including authoring curriculum
in biostatistics and epidemiology for the Royal Veterinary College, London UK.

She also volunteers with the National Park Service all year round and with the Veterans’ Administration when possible.