Our Story

Jason started his nursing career in San Diego on a cardiac step-down unit, then moved to the SICU: open hearts, balloon pumps, Impellas. That's where the love for medical devices began. Not from a brochure. From actually using them.

When COVID hit, he took emergency travel assignments in COVID ICUs across LA and Orange County: 6-on, 1-off, 6-on, in units with no charge nurse, limited PPE, and patients who weren't getting better. On one assignment he cared for a patient for four straight days. They didn't speak the same language but they found their way: Spanglish, small jokes, learning a little about each other's lives the way you do in those rooms. She didn't make it.

After 8 years as a bedside nurse, that was the moment that pushed him over the top. The burnout and exhaustion had maxed out. He needed a change. But how?

What followed was intentional. LinkedIn connections, coffees with people who had made the transition, conversations with device reps and pharma contacts from travel assignments. He studied the medical device sales cycle: how territories work, how products get adopted, what hiring managers actually look for. He took a role as a project coordinator at a CRO. It taught him the corporate fundamentals he never learned at the bedside. Professional emails, Teams calls, client relations, structured project work. It was a stepping stone he's grateful for. But his passion was in products, and he knew it.

Eventually he secured an interview for a Clinical Account Manager role at a medical device startup, advanced through every stage, and won it. His first couple of months there, something shifted. Colleagues and physician partners were actually listening. Asking for his input. The clinical expertise he had spent years building finally had a seat at the table.

He never found the playbook he was looking for during that transition. So he built it. That's NurseLeap.