Prior to joining the firm, Jacob served as the head of the design team working alongside a local surveying and mapping provider at a university in North Carolina, where he designed and implemented the user interface for a land-surveying GPS device. He also served as a reliability engineering intern at a paper mill in Eastover, South Carolina.
Jacob has experience with power generation and transmission, electric motors, protective relays and other power electronics, embedded/IoT devices, virtual machines, reciprocating steam engines, internal combustion engines, and musical instruments, among other fields.