Jacob graduated from SUNY Broome with an A.S. in Engineering Science and an A.S. in Business Administration. While working at CMP Advanced Mechanical Solution's high-precision machine shop, Jacob worked on Tesla, Mercedes Benz, and Amazon projects. In these projects, Jacob determined the manufacturing process of specific parts then optimized the process to produce higher quality parts in less time.

As the Principal Investigator for KLAW Industries EPA Phase I SBIR award, Jacob oversees the development of our contamination removal process to demonstrate we can scale this technology.

In 2019, Jacob traveled to Haiti as a water system engineer with the Health for Haiti program, created to engage the rural Haitian population and transition clean water into every household.