Jackson Shea

09/02/2021

Jackson Shea BS ’89, when not busy playing with his 18-month-old grandson, works as an IT architect with a focus on storage technologies for IBM. He also heads up the Portland and S.W. Washington Alumni Chapter and has just been appointed to Lewis & Clark’s Board of Alumni.

02/22/2019

Jackson Shea BS ’89, who has worked at IBM almost 10 years, still appreciates his liberal arts education from L&C, which has given him a different perspective on tech and society. It also gives him cool advice to share with his son as he prepares to graduate from the University of Oregon this summer.

02/15/2017

Jackson Shea BS ’89 and his wife, Toni, have two kids: a 20-year-old son attending the University of Oregon and a 21-year-old daughter living in Seaside, Oregon. Shea works in enterprise storage for IBM and recently went to Mexico City for a month to perform pro bono work through IBM’s Corporate Service Corps. Shea credits his philosophy and communications work at Lewis & Clark for helping with his career, since, he says, “I took no computer science classes and failed calculus when I took it at Lewis & Clark (aced it after L&C but never bothered getting a computer science degree).” Locally, he has helped out at the Mount Hood Kiwanis Camp for the developmentally disabled.