Jake Bernards, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Ca, Us

Lead the implementation and development of enterprise-level accounts within the Department of Defense (DoD), including key customers such as SOCOM (Special Operations Command) and AFRL (Air Force Research Laboratory). My role focuses on driving strategic initiatives and fostering long-term partnerships with critical stakeholders. I leverage deep product knowledge and customer-centric strategies to optimize workflows, enhance product adoption, and deliver measurable outcomes. By working closely with cross-functional teams, I ensure that our solutions meet the complex demands of the DoD, SOCOM, and AFRL, while driving sustainable growth and success for the organization.

Durham, North Carolina, United States

San Diego

Lead the processing, storage, cleaning, analysis, and visualization of data related to several research projects related to physical readiness, warfighter resilience, and military performance in laboratory and field-based environments. An additional role involves assisting in the design of upcoming research projects and how wearables can be leveraged/utilized. Our main focus is on developing strategies to increase physical and mental resilience, enhance physical and mental skills training, define the physical and cognitive limits of healthy warfighters, and investigate the stress response associated with training within extreme environments.

San Diego, Ca

Assist in the performance of research studies including study design, data collection, and analyses related to physical readiness, warfighter resilience, and military performance in laboratory and field-based environments. Our main focus is on developing strategies to increase physical and mental resilience, enhance physical and mental skills training, define the physical and cognitive limits of healthy warfighters, and investigate the stress response associated with training within extreme environments.

San Diego, Ca

Roles included incorporating analytics into player development. Sport science duties included; GPS, sportcode, and analysis of game, practice, and testing data. Strength and conditioning duties included; aiding in all weightroom sessions and interim strength coach when head strength coach was traveling. Currently, my role includes analyzing backlogged data to help gain insight into performance and injury risk.

Developing and implementing periodized annual plans as well as employing an athlete monitoring protocol to track longitudinal performance changes.

Coronado, California

Clientele ranged from general fitness to high school athletes to professional athletes. I strive to incorporate the most recent research in devolving a personalized program for clients to achieve their personalized goals. My philosophy in training is to take an athletic type approach towards everyone and use researched based modalities in order to maximize the adaptations.

The Internship lasted a total of 530 Hours and responsibilities included:• Quest 10 Kids - Developing essential fundamental skills to kids between the ages of 8-12 and laying the framework for future athletic success.• Scripps Ranch Field Hockey - Aiding in strength, speed, and agility work of scripps ranch field hockey girls aging 13-17 getting ready for their upcoming season.• Jr. Gulls - Helped with the development of 13 year old hockey players in their strive towards success through strength and power work. • Varsity Speed and Strength - Working with kids ranging from ages 10-17 on developing and progressing speed technique and strength while incorporating an intensive plyometric program. • Elite - Progressing collegiate athletes between the ages of 18-20 through a series of olympic lifts and plyometric/agility based exercises in order to get the athletes prepared to report to their respective teams once school starts.• Shadowed/discussed philosophies of the trainers training various professional athletes such as Carson Palmer, Andre Hardy, Tony Gwynn Jr., Drew Brees, and Darren Sproles, both in the weight room and on the field.

Greater San Diego Area

As a member of the SDSU football team I have been immersed into the college strength and conditioning setting. Being on the trainee side of the process has helped groom my ideology surrounding the process of developing a year long periodization workout program. The five year experience of being a quarterback on the team has helped aid in the development of my leadership and motivational skills in a group setting.AccomplishmentsFull Scholarship for five yearsScholar Athlete each semester for all five years (Deans List three of the semesters)

Graduate Certificate, Applied Statistics

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Sport Physiology And Sport Performance, 4.0

Focused on how underlying mechanisms can be manipulated by variations in training to produce specific performance enhancements along.

Masters Of Science, Exercise Physiology, 3.62

Activities and Societies: Football Team

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Kinesiology And Exercise Science, 3.42

Activities and Societies: FootballStudent Athlete with the SDSU football team.