Jay decided to make the bold move to Los Angeles in 2012 and he hit a misleading lucky streak early on. The first commercial audition he ever had, he booked and by the end of that year he had shot three national commercials. He was convinced that work would always come this easily, but he was quickly humbled by a stretch of a year or two with no bookings. This is when Jay began taking more classes and learned to treat classes as the tool that kept him sharp through the downturns. The classes did paid off and the bigger jobs did come. He booked a recurring guest star on a Starz series "Run the World", but what he never saw coming was video games. Despite being a lifelong gamer, Jay had only ever pictured performing in front of a camera, not inside a volume. This changed when he was cast as Seb in Minds Eye where he was introduced to PCAP. He was hooked when he got to perform long, uncut scenes where every angle could be a close-up and where the world has to be conjured entirely from imagination. It quickly became his favorite kind of work and shortly after he was also cast as the lead character Murphy in Battlefield 6.

Nowadays, Jay is living a version of his life he once couldn't have fathomed. He has been a gamer since before he could talk and he now plays titles where his own voice pilots the character on screen. A strangeness he is still wrapping his head around and is endlessly grateful for. He loves TV and Film and will always continue to seek out opportunities to perform in those mediums, but he aims to keep working in PCAP, to disappear into a long, story-driven worlds. Also he hopes that his future in games allows him to one day strap on arm extensions and finally play a monster or to step into a fantasy role and experience that world. The Minnesota kid who spent his summers in a warehouse managing airplane parts still cannot quite believe this is the job he has now. And if you're ever in the volume with him and see him grinning, just know that inner child is alive and well, jumping for joy every single day.