About Jon

By day, Jon is a senior User Experience (UX) design professional and leader with more than 20 years of experience in his field. A degreed visual designer, his career has included roles at U.S.-based Fortune 500 companies in insurance and industrial automation. Additionally, Jon has earned 18 patents on industrial software applications and worked for small startups in the commercial security and real estate technology industries.

Jon often spends his “downtime” speaking and writing on User Experience and related topics. His thought leadership has been on display in UXmatters, UX Collective, and The Startup digital magazines. Jon has been a contributing columnist for UXmatters since 2017. As a fiction writer, Jon’s short fiction has been featured in GHOSTLIGHT, THE MAGAZINE OF TERROR (SPRING 2019), DARK DOSSIER #32: THE MAGAZINE OF GHOSTS, MONSTERS, AND KILLERS, and THE DEVIL'S DOORBELL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF DARKEST ROMANCE.

Jon resides in the Cleveland, Ohio area in the U.S. with his wife and two hell-raising sons. He gets by just fine with the help of hoppy beer and strong coffee and enjoys hiking and biking on the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail in the forested Cuyahoga Valley National Park, where much of his debut novel, THE TOWPATH, a time-travel suspense thriller, is set. It’s a beautiful place that’s steeped in mystery, legend, and the occasional bone-chilling ghost story.

Fun fact: Jon is a distant descendant of American author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, on his mother’s side of the family (his great-grandmother was a Hawthorne). Vast writing skills, pedigree, and renown differences aside, maybe that’s what made Jon want to try his hand at writing, who knows?