Jon graduated from The Art Institute of Seattle in 1989, soon finding work in the game industry at Taito Software Inc. as an artist on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Action Game (NES), which Taito was developing for George Lucas' game company, then known as Lucasfilm Games.

In 1990, Lucasfilm Games hired Jon as an artist to join their console game group located on Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, CA. The group outgrew the ranch and moved to facilities in nearby San Rafael to join the rest of what became LucasArts Entertainment Company.

Jon spent the next 14 years with LucasArts, shipping over 20 titles on PC and consoles in roles ranging from Artist/Animator to Project Leader and Director. Highlights include the Super Star Wars trilogy for SNES, the X-Wing and TIE Fighter series (PC), Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire and Star Wars: Episode I - Racer (N64, PC), Star Wars: Bounty Hunter (PS2, NCG) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (PS2, Xbox).

From 2004 to 2008, Jon was Creative Director at Sandblast Games, a THQ studio in Kirkland, Washington (formerly known as Cranky Pants Games), where he worked on Evil Dead: Regeneration (PS2, XBox) and Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (PS3, XBox 360).

Currently, Jon is Design Director at Nihilistic Software in Novato, California.