Jake Edwards

Jake can’t quit automating. He has built his own home automation to control everything from lights to gates to monitoring his plants’ moisture and light levels.

Education

B.S. Aerospace Engineering from NC State

Favorite Social Activity

Playing team trivia at local breweries

First Concert

Flogging Molly

Project Manager, A&E

Moving Essentia Forward

Jake dedicates himself to innovating new automations and tools across the company. He also manages Small Cell A&E projects in the OHPA Region.

Career Highlights

Jake got started in Telecom at American Tower Corporation where he was a Network Design Engineer. There he was responsible for Fiber and power designs for Distributed Antenna Systems in the Western U.S. During his time at American Tower, he became the go-to engineer for onboarding new equipment into their ecosystem. Jake got his start writing automations, creating a program that decreased drawing time by 90% and increased accuracy and consistency between drafters.

After American Tower, Jake branched out to the agriculture industry, joining a corn breeding start-up — and again leveraging automation to improve manufacturing and data analysis. This is where he met his new best friend, Python.