Jake is a former Academic Technology Consultant for the Social Sciences at the University of Richmond where he also taught technology workshops for Windows, Excel, Google Docs, Google Earth, Wordpress, and others. He received his BA in Psychology from Carleton College in 1998, and a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Washington in 2008. His past teaching experience has been in research methodology and animal learning, and previous research projects have involved quantitation of the systemic elimination of proteins implicated in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.

Jake’s technological interests include cutting up workstations with power tools to make them quieter, and finding ways to work (and play) more effectively with computers.