He completed his graduate work at Duke University in the program in Genetics and Genomics and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley and the Miller Institute. He has been a BioPerl developer since 2000 was President of Open Bioinformatics Foundation 2005-2011. Jason is the primary architect of the Bio::SearchIO, Bio::TreeIO, PopGen modules systems. He contributes to the Gbrowse system and as a Core developer helps coordinate aspects of releasing the different software packages and initiated the migration of the BioPerl documentation into this wiki. He worked on the (now) defunct BioCORBA project as well as a first iteration of BioPerl db as well as various minor EnsEMBL, Pedigree plotting, and hacking while a programmer at the Center for Human Genetics from 1999-2001.