Shea currently works as a Research Associate working in the scanning lab as a part of the Imaging Team. In his current role, Shea aids the Scanning Lab with 20x and 63x Brightfield scans of Human and Mouse IVSCC cells and is the person of contact for both the SP8 and FV3000 Confocal Microscopes in the lab. Prior to coming to the Institute, he spent time at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center where he performed molecular biology research.

Shea graduated in April of 2017 from the University of Michigan with a B.S. in Biophysics.