Fine Line’s content manager, Shawn has written professionally for the past seven years. Originally coming from a print background, Shawn has done freelance newspaper work for both the Cape Gazette and News Journal, cataloguing a variety of sports stories and features on people and places throughout Sussex County.

Shawn pursued his interest in journalism to Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. In the spring of 2009, he graduated from the school with a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Public Relations.

Those four years in New Jersey were well spent – while attending Seton Hall; Shawn worked with the Madison Square Garden Network, GolfVacationInsider.com, Major League Baseball and the communications department of Sports Illustrated. Each position helped to hone his writing abilities and gave him a crash course on the modern media environment.

His time with MSG.com and GolfVacationInsider.com also exposed him to direct HTML, SEO and CMS work – providing the first taste of true web-driven content production.

It was that experience that eventually led Shawn to Fine Line after he returned home to Sussex County during the summer of 2009. He took on a number of assignments as a freelancer – time and time again proving his value to our web development team – before ultimately joining the team full time in August.

Shawn has refined his content management abilities as a member of Fine Line’s full-time staff, where he’s become the go-to resource for content and copy – which can carry just as much weight as layout, design and presentation in the website business.

His presence has allowed us to bring an even higher-quality product to our customers, and we couldn’t be happier.