Jacob Ray

Jacob Ray has a diverse work experience, starting with their current position at Rampart Communications as a Signal Processing Engineer, where they are working on L1 symbol-based encryption in the 5G physical layer stack using Intel's FlexRAN and prototyping the next generation of featureless communication systems. Prior to this, they worked for The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where they had multiple roles. Jacob started as an Aegis BMD T&E Analyst and M&S Developer, where they led the development, testing, and performance analysis of the Aegis Command and Decision (C&D) Baseline 9 model in C++. Jacob was also regarded as a subject matter expert for Aegis BMD and presented results to government and military leadership. Later, they became the Aegis BMD Interoperability Lead Engineer, where they led a team of engineers to provide subject matter expertise and FMS knowledge exchange to support BMD/Link-16 interoperability between Japanese developed systems and Aegis BMD. Jacob has also worked with the Australian Royal Navy in a similar capacity. Jacob'srole as an LTE/NR Software Developer involved integrating, debugging, and testing various 5G open-source software products to create a government-owned 5G gNB, including integration of OpenAirInterface5G with ZCU104/FMCOMMS2 eval board and cross-compilation of x86 code for Arm A53 processor. Finally, Jacob Ray started their career as a Religious Missionary at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Jacob Ray received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from Brigham Young University in 2013 and a Master of Science degree in the same field from Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering in 2016.