10 Questions With...Patrick Shaw By: Editor Patrick Shaw runs the city of Mexico, and he keeps the city running. Shaw serves as Mexico’s IT manager, a role he also plays on a contract basis for Audrain County. In his spare time he runs on city streets. Shaw has kept computers functioning at City Hall for 10 years. Before that, he was a technology specialist with the University of Missouri Extension Service. But Shaw says he stumbled into an IT job after earning a degree in Criminal Justice. He moved here 24 years ago from a South Carolina town “not much bigger than Mexico.”