Jacob was born and raised in the Chicagoland area. He attended high school at Notre Dame College Prep in Niles Illinois. While in high school he found his passion for music, theatre, and film. Over the past years he has become well versed in all aspects of sound and music for film and theatre, picking up some video editing, gripping, producing, broadcast engineering, and theatre lighting along the way, as well as enjoying a fondness for the Oxford comma, authoring several short stories, and continuing a pursuit of the 'great American novel'.
His primary work now entails location mixing, sound design, scoring, and producing on a number of films.