Jacob McGough
Forensic Expert
Dallas, TX
Mr. McGough has over 10 years combined technical experience in biomechanics, materials characterization, mathematical modeling, product development, customer development, operations, and leadership experience managing and driving cross-functional strategic business initiatives. His experience includes designing and building testing equipment, developing mathematical models, and characterizing large deformation materials. His research has focused on osteokinematic analysis, and large deformation ferromagnetic materials under multiphysics loading conditions.
In private industry and CPG, Mr. McGough has over 5 years of experience managing and serving large retail customers as a technical sales lead at Jordan Manufacturing. In his experience in engineering, operations, and product development positions, Mr. McGough drove lean process improvements, championed major cost reduction initiatives, established new product development structures, and began an innovation pipeline focused on fiber materials. Mr. McGough is an autodidact and excels in high pressure situations, striving to bring value to the consumer, customer, and the organization.
Doctor of Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering | Purdue University
Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering | Purdue University
Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering | Purdue University
- Senior Product Development and Compliance Manager | Jordan Manufacturing 2024 – 2026
- Worked with cross-functional team to give category leadership in retail and B2B business segments. Worked hand in hand with clients to solve their pain points and be a value-added supplier. In addition to leading by providing exceptional service, we brought consumer insights and thought leadership to our partners.
- Interfaced directly with retail partners acting as technical sales lead on go to market team from 2021 to present.
- Built laboratory at the plant to quantify quality metrics and measure performance metrics that helped retailers translate performance to consumer value.
- Engineered patented CloudnestTM Technology, Comfort Where it Matters MostTM.
- Worked with retail partners to implement testing metrics across their vendor matrix, ensuring product quality and consistency at shelf.
- Managed product development process from ideation to execution working globally with Vietnam and US teams in production.
- Managed all compliance testing and customer communications for all Retail accounts.
- Created costing frameworks from ground up and acted as senior cost accountant during this role.
- Simulated product cost structures.
- Predicted tariff / global impacts in the P&L, allowing the organization to manage customer expectations.
- Senior Plant Manager-Domestic Operations | Jordan Manufacturing 2022- 2024
- Drove lean manufacturing processes through the operations side of the business, streamlining labor and overhead structures. Improved service metrics (OTIF) by over 80%.
- Drove reduction in Labor of over 50% (16% of revenue to 7.8%) with cross-functional team.
- Part of cross-functional team that drove improvement of direct labor efficiencies by 130%.
- Part of a cross-functional team who simplified and optimized a multi-plant footprint, cutting two-thirds of the organizational overhead spread.
- Shifted shop floor culture to safety and quality first.
- Created live visual management for order status to track production.
- Mechanical Engineer | Jordan Manufacturing 2020- 2022
- Spearheaded Equipment design and developed data analytics tools to mitigate supply chain crises.
- Self-taught SQL and spearheaded creation of live reports for executive leadership to maximize service and mitigate impact to customers during global supply chain crises.
- Continuous improvements in manufacturing equipment to improve production efficiencies and MUV.
- Independent Projects Entrepreneurial product ventures. 2017-2020
- Run Rocket Release System – Full Prototype Development and implementation of add on release system for the run rocket (https://www.runrocket.com/) with Purdue Athletics. Worked directly with users to minimize impact to athlete as load was transitioned away from the runner.
- Backstroke Snorkel – Full Prototype Development and implementation of a stroke mechanics correction device for swimmers with Purdue Athletics and High School teams. Focused on heightening self-awareness for the athlete to correct their biomechanics while minimizing changes in form from the device.
- Swimming Towers at Destro Machines (https://www.destromachines.com/en_US/) – Worked as a consultant for Destro Machines on various projects including their premier swim tower.
- Research and Development Engineering Intern | Ohio Willow Wood – Mount Sterling, OH 2017
- Ran clinical research studies to determine effects of socket fit on potential high-pressure zones in residual limb.
- Executed Clinical Testing and Data Analysis for 3 clinical research studies.
- Effect of Cadence on Multiaxial In-Socket Movement.
- Effect of Socket Fit, Cadence, and Suspension on Multiaxial In-Socket Movement of the Residual Limb.
- Multiaxial In-Socket Movement and Its relationship to Fit.
- Prototype Design and Manufacturing of Silicone based EMG electrodes for robotic control of a prosthetic hand, and Electronic Housing for the control system of a variable fit lower limb sockets.
- Purdue University HIRRT Lab | Graduate Researcher – West Lafayette, IN 2014-2020
- Managed and lead development of equipment and processes for testing and characterization of a wide range of large deformation materials including silicone composites and biological tissue.
- Designed manufacturing processes for silicone specimens.
- Design and Manufacturing of pressure driven injection molding system capable of dispensing up to 5 gallons of 2-part silicone materials for batches consisting of over 60 specimens and 4 different shapes.
- Novel pattern application process allowed patterns to permanently adhere to silicone surfaces of the samples for later full field displacement tracking methods.
- Designed manufacturing processes for ferromagnetic and conductive silicone composite materials.
- Development of isotropic and anisotropic microstructures via magnetization processes during and post curing.
- Utilized FEI Quanta 3D FEG Dual Beam SEM and Zeiss 3D X-ray Microscopes to verify material microstructure.
- Utilized Quantum Design PPMS Dynacool to determine total magnetic moment of ferromagnetic composites.
- Tested silicone-based materials to determine hyperelastic and viscoelastic properties.
- Designed and manufactured custom multi-directional Materials Testing System for large deformation specimens.
- Wrote LABVIEW and MATLAB programs for control, data acquisition, and analysis, including synchronization, 3Dimage reconstruction, and procedures to determine material parameters from experimental data.
- Designed clinical research studies to track osteokinematic and load data from athletes using motion capture systems and force plates.
- Focus on how outcomes could be used clinically.
- Designed manufacturing processes for custom lay-up of carbon fiber and fiberglass composites.
- Created custom prosthetic sockets and helmets to test energy absorption of new helmet and socket designs.
- Worked as a Graduate TA, creating and implementing content for courses:
- Advanced Biomechanics
- Modeling and Analysis
- Statics
- Dynamics
- SolidWorks
- SQL
- MATLAB
- ERP
- Analysis
- Advanced Excel
- Microsoft Office
- 6 Sigma Green Belt