Led by a former dealership general manager.
Shawn brings hands-on experience across vehicle sales, finance, leasing, warranties, service, acquisition, inventory, vendor coordination, and automotive operations.
Review Shawn’s Background
Personal and commercial vehicle acquisition
Vehicle acquisition, simplified.
Simplified Auto helps individuals and businesses choose, source, negotiate, customize, and take delivery of the right vehicles—with one experienced point of contact coordinating the process.
Guidance shaped by nearly a decade inside automotive retail and dealership leadership.
Personal
Buying for yourself?
Get experienced help choosing, locating, negotiating, customizing, replacing, and taking delivery of your next vehicle. Explore Personal Services
Commercial
Buying for your business?
Source, equip, and deploy the right business vehicles without coordinating dealerships, upfitters, graphics providers, and transporters alone. Explore Commercial ServicesNearly a decade in automotive retailExperience from sales through dealership leadership
Inside-dealership perspectiveTransaction knowledge without pressure from one seller
Acquisition or a finished vehicleChoose standard brokerage or add modifications and upfits before delivery
One experienced contactDealer, vendor, upfit, transport, and delivery coordination
You retain the final sayIndependent guidance with every specification and decision approved by you
One coordinated vehicle project
Expertise, negotiation, and oversight from the first requirement through delivery.
Simplified Auto does more than locate inventory. We help define the right vehicle, compare transaction structures, negotiate, coordinate qualified vendors, review the completed project, and plan delivery.
Commercial vehicle acquisition and deployment
Choose correctly specified vehicles, compare dealer and upfit proposals, coordinate equipment and graphics, and prepare one or multiple units for delivery.
Explore Commercial ServicesPersonal vehicle buying and customization
Compare vehicles and transaction structures, review dealership proposals, negotiate the deal, coordinate professional modifications, and prepare for delivery.
Explore Personal Services
Built from inside the automotive business
Experience from both sides of the vehicle transaction.
Shawn brings nearly nine years in automotive retail, including dealership leadership under privately held and publicly traded ownership and experience with a Fortune 500 company.
- Understand how dealerships price, negotiate, finance, and sell vehicles
- Select vehicles around real use—not only the familiar badge
- Compare the complete transaction instead of only the payment
- Coordinate dealerships, installers, transporters, and other qualified vendors
- Review vehicle and equipment details before delivery
- Keep final decisions and approvals with the client
Education belongs in the decision
Use the resource library before you need a sales conversation.
Personal and commercial buying guidance is integrated into each customer journey—not hidden in a footer blog.
How to Evaluate a Car Deal
Review price, rate, term, trade, fees, products, and total commitment in the right order.
Read the guideLeasing vs. Financing a Vehicle
Compare the vehicle’s current lease and finance programs—not only its price, payment, or MSRP.
Read the guideCommercial Vehicle Inventory Workbook
Organize current vehicles, specifications, acquisition cost, replacement candidates, and project notes in one practical Excel workbook.
Read the business guide
California primary market
Statewide virtual reach. Southern California in person.
Preparing to serve vehicle buyers throughout California, with in-person availability in Southern California. Selected remote services may also be available nationwide after applicable licensing requirements are confirmed.
Cross-state assistance is considered case by case and remains subject to the laws and licensing requirements of every applicable jurisdiction.
Start with the vehicle you need to acquire.
Choose the Personal or Commercial path and tell us what the vehicle must do, where the transaction stands, and which parts of the project need coordination.