Jake Ashmore Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

-Technical research areas include reverse engineering and vulnerability assessments of embedded systems, cyber warfare, hardware and firmware reverse engineering, DevOps infrastructure management-Responsible for interviews, hiring, management, technical direction and mentoring to students in the division-Principal Investigator/Technical Lead on a multi-year research project dealing with o Research and development of distributed Embedded Linux sensing units based around a RPI 3 B+ to record data/actuate physical systems using Python integrated with Docker and Docker-Compose o Administration of an on-prem Kubernetes cluster running an ELK stack using Ansible/Helm/Docker o Assisted with every aspect of the project including endpoint development and provisioning, creating test networks using Ansible with Cumulus Linux routers, debugging issues, implementing features o Establish and distribute technical tasking to a team of ~3 engineers and ~3 students o Assist in managing the budget (~$1MM), as well as interfacing with customers to achieve goals-Technical Lead of an IRAD whose goal was to develop a portable test bed to explore vulnerabilities and demonstrate exploits within the ADS-B protocol, which was a finalist for IRAD of the year in 2019o Presented this research to Government and Industry partners at the Aviation Cyber Rodeo 2021-Experienced in analyzing device vulnerabilities to attacks such as replay attacks, spoofing attacks or attacks that exploit device weaknesses primarily through Ghidra RE, SDRs, GNU Radio and Python scripting-Assist with teaching a vertically integrated project to undergraduates at the Georgia Institute of Technology: Embedded System Cyber Security, where we explore reverse engineering of consumer IOT systems

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

-Performed research and development on a computer vision based automatic continuity testing system for PCBs built around a modified Ultibots D300VS 3D printer-Expanded functionality and usability of system through the use of Python, PyQt5 and OpenCV.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

-One of 49 students accepted to program out of 500+ applicants-Designed, built, and performed testing on an embedded train detection system for a local municipality-Integrated LIDAR, ultrasonic, accelerometer, vibration and audio sensor data to detect events-Used Python to program a control script that enabled sensor management, data analysis, train event detection functionality and transmission of anonymous data to a central server-Enabled system to act as a master node for other’s data collection units via RF and wired connections-Labeled and performed feature extraction on data to train a SVM for classification of audio data-Worked with another student to perform embedded speech obfuscation via LPC coefficient replacement

-Founder and operator of EIKS, an ecommerce sales company-Provided leadership and personnel management to a team of up to four employees-Negotiated contracts for supplies and inventory with local and international vendors-Clarified strategic vision through multiple transitions in service, all while maintaining profitability-Duties include everything from the day to day operation to the long-term success of the business

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Engineering

Associate Of Science - As, Engineering

Certificate, Emergency Medical Technician - Intermediate