Jon completed his paramedic training in 1997 in Tallahassee, Florida. As a paramedic, he has worked in both the rural EMS settings, as well on the streets of New Orleans, where he served as the co-creator, and head of the New Orleans EMS Field Training Officer Program for six years. Throughout his career, Jon has taught EMS at the college level, has worked as a flight medic, and an Emergency Room Paramedic at both Tulane University Hospital and Children's Hospital of New Orleans.

He is the author of Hard Roll: A Paramedic's Perspective of Life and Death in New Orleans, Goodbye Bad Dreams, and the comicbook series, Endangered.

He currently lives in New Orleans with his wife, two sons, an army of weenie dogs, and a few cats.