Jacob's work focuses on the structural gap between capability and execution across organizations, institutions, and funding systems. His experience spans embedded diagnostics in regulated environments, research program coordination, and cross-domain system mapping — with emphasis on how decisions, incentives, and communication breakdowns impact real-world outcomes.

• Supported a multi-year Fortune 500-sponsored bioengineering research program at the University of Kansas — coordinating across laboratories, managing sponsor interactions, and contributing to sustained contract renewals
• Executed a 40-day embedded diagnostic inside a 375-employee CRO — mapping a 92-step commercial workflow, identifying a 4.7× cascading failure pattern, and delivering eight zero-cost interventions adopted by executive leadership
• Conducted a six-month stakeholder and systems analysis across $500M+ in federal STEM education programs, identifying coordination failures across program design, institutional execution, and outcome measurement
• Built internal systems supporting stakeholder mapping, opportunity identification, and organizational diagnostics — including automated contract tracking tools and RACI-based decision visualization for executive use