Jake leads strategic safety and organizational performance across 14 Tesla R&D and Manufactuing support facilities supporting 3,400+ employees and global contractor programs. His work spans SIF prevention, AI-enabled risk insights, and the human systems that make safety stick—even at scale.

Before Tesla, he drove enterprise compliance and incident reduction across major infrastructure and industrial projects at Granite Construction, including large-scale acquisitions where safety culture became the deciding factor in success. As a former wildland firefighter, he understands high-reliability cultures firsthand—where split-second decisions, crew trust, and situational awareness determine outcomes.

His conviction: Robots and AI don't fail in isolation. Neither do people. He helps high-risk, multi-site organizations see that autonomous systems, humanoid robots, and digital transformation don't eliminate human error—they relocate it. The question isn't how to engineer around people. It's how to build cultures where people speak up, learn fast, and lead through complexity.

He speaks and coaches on building high-reliability cultures and teams at scale, leadership influence, and the systems thinking required to reduce serious injuries while scaling operational excellence.