Jason spent his formidable years, including grade school and high school, growing up in Sudbury, Ontario. Like many of the younger men living there, Jason joined INCO in 1973, when they were in a hiring frenzy and hired nearly 5,000 men to work in the mines during the years 1972 to ‘73. Jason was assigned to Garson Mine working underground, where he spent the next 5 years, between Garson and Creighton Mines, learning the honourable trade of underground development/production miner. Wanting to progress to supervision, Jason attended Cambrian College of Applied Arts and Technology, where he received a Mine Engineering Technician Diploma.
After graduating College, and no immediate supervision opportunities with INCO, Jason moved to Northern Manitoba and worked at Ruttan Mine for 12 years. Jason met his first wife Elaine, in Leaf Rapids, married and they had three sons, Chris, Scott and Jacob. Jason worked in the Engineering Office, then as Mine Supervisor, Mine Captain and ultimately worked his way up to the position of Mine Superintendent. After Elaine’s unfortunate passing, in 1989, Jason moved to Yellowknife, NT, with his sons, where he was promoted to the position of Mine General Manager at the Con Mine. In the early 90’s, Jason met his second wife, Karen and they were married in 1993. At the time, Karen had two young adult daughters who were both attending college in southern B.C. Around this time, Jason moved his family out of Yellowknife and down to the East Kootenays in southeast British Columbia. He determined that he was going to work Fly In/Fly Out (FIFO) assignments and keep the family stable in one location.
Jason authored and presented four Technical Papers from 1987 to 1993: Computerized Planned Maintenance Program at Sherritt Gordon Mines Ltd, Ruttan Mine, presented at C.I.M.M. 8th Underground Operator’s Conference -1987; Sulphide Ignition Experiences at Ruttan Mine, presented at the C.I.M.M. A.G.M. -1988; Rejuvenation of an Old-Line Gold Producer – NERCO Con Mine Ltd., presented at C.I.M.M. 10th Underground Operator’s Conference – 1991; and Gainsharing – A Productivity Tool, presented at C.I.M.M. 11th Underground Operator’s Conference – 1993.
Jason worked at a number of mines over the next few years, including Hoyle Pond Mine, Golden Kopje Mine (Zimbabwe), QR Mine. Then he was assigned to a one year contract with a Mining Contractor and moved back to Yellowknife. The contract finished early in 1998 and with time on his hands while the kids were finishing their school year, he decided to write a novel. This was a personal ‘bucket list’ challenge. He completed the first draft of the book in three months. That was done and he put it up on a shelf and more or less forgot about it.
After moving out of Yellowknife and back to the Kootaneys, Jason’s working career included time at Winston Lake Mine, Getchell Mine (Nevada) and then 8 years in Ireland working for 4 different companies between Tara Mine and Drummond Mine (Gypsum). In 2008, he went to work at the Rambler Mine, in Newfoundland. While working in Newfoundland, he used his evenings to write his second complete novel. He said he wrote the second one to prove that the first wasn’t a fluke. Again, once he had this completed, he put it on a shelf with the first book. He started a third novel but shelved it, as well, after about getting 25% into the story.
In 2011, he took the position of General Manager at Cantung Mine, in the Northwest Territories and shortly after starting there, started a fourth novel and again, shelved this one too after completing 25% of the project. In 2017, he took the position of Manager of Mining at the Hope Bay Project, in Nunavut. This was a FIFO situation with little to do after work so he finished both the third and the fourth novels and started a fifth story which is currently near completion. Now with four completed novels and approaching retirement, Jason finally decided that he would start publishing his works.
This is the commencement of a twenty year culmination of personal challenge, bucket list, hobby to a satisfying way to tell a story. Similar to Grisham’s lawyers and Patterson’s Law Enforcement 
characters, Jason tells a story, using miners and mining personnel including their families in his story and stories. Mining people are colourful, very colourful and easily lend themselves to a good story. Jason leans on his life experience in inventing his characters for each of his stories.
Jason also enjoys other hobbies as he loves to paint, primarily in acrylic and his home has the walls covered with his own paintings. He has amassed an extensive Mineral Collection over his 45 years mining with 1,000+ specimens displayed and catalogued, including a large number that he has personally hand-picked. In addition to this, he has a significant 1:50 scale diecast surface and underground mining equipment collection. He also enjoys walking with their dog and the occasional round of golf. Jason resides, with his wife Karen, in Cranbrook, British Columbia, where is contemplating ‘official’ retirement status. He lives close to his sons and grandsons.