Our People

Pericle has attracted and retained some of the most talented engineers and technicians in the wireless industry. Following are brief resumes for our key personnel.

Jay M. Jacobsmeyer, P.E. – President & Owner

Jay holds BS (magna cum laude) and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech and Cornell University, respectively.  He has over thirty years experience as a field engineer and researcher.  Before co-founding Pericle Communications Company in 1992, Jay served nine years on active duty with the United States Air Force and a brief stint with a defense contractor in Colorado Springs.  He retired from the Air Force Reserve in 2005 at the rank of lieutenant colonel.  He regularly advises public safety agencies on land mobile radio issues, including new system design, microwave path design, drive test surveys, 800 MHz rebanding, interference studies, and radio frequency exposure surveys.  His technical papers have appeared in IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and in twelve IEEE conference proceedings.  He also authors the engineering column for Urgent Communications magazine.  Jay has served as principal investigator on six government research projects, one for the U.S. Navy, two for the U.S. Air Force, and three for the National Science Foundation.  A licensed professional engineer in the State of Colorado, Jay is also a senior member of IEEE, a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), and a member of the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO).

Joe Kramer – Senior Engineer

Joe holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder and an MBA from the University of Denver. He has over twenty years of experience managing operations in several fields including as a partner for one of the largest utility construction companies in Colorado, SiteWise Corporation. Joe’s engineering experience includes design work at Picosecond Pulse Labs working on broadband fiber network components and test and measurement equipment. Joe also worked in the RF compliance field for a German company, TUV Product Services. At Pericle, he leads consulting projects in public safety, transportation, utilities and subscriber radio testing. His areas of consulting expertise include DAS engineering, test & measurement, radio coverage modeling, RF exposure surveys, interference studies and radio coverage surveys. Joe joined our company in 2018.

Brian T. Singer – Senior Radio Technician

Brian has over thirty years experience as a land mobile senior radio technician.  He earned his Associate Degree in Electronics Technology from Wadena Community College in 1981 and  joined Motorola as a radio technician in the Chicago area.  Later, as a system integrator with Legacy Communications, Brian implemented and configured many federal government and commercial projects including the U.S. Air Force Academy Trunked Land Mobile Radio (LMR) System, U.S. Army Fort Carson and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Federal Protective Services (FPS), Motorola 4.1 SmartZone Systems, Schriever and Buckley AFB Trunked LMR Systems, and Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) Florence Complex digital trunked radio system.  While managing the radio system maintenance for the FPS Denver Mega Center, he oversaw the maintenance and interface of all radio systems and links into it for the western United States including Alaska.  Brian also served in the Katrina disaster recovery effort for FEMA, supporting the two regional DHS Federal Protective Services mobile command vehicles and radio system covering Louisiana and Mississippi. He has completed numerous Motorola continuing education courses and his radio expertise includes Motorola, Harris, EF Johnson, Tait and Kenwood radio systems.  Since joining Pericle in 2006, Brian has worked on a variety of wireless projects, including land mobile radio drive testing, cellular data drive testing, managing new public safety radio projects, radio frequency exposure measurements, interference hunting and resolution for wireless operators, and computer modeling of land mobile radio systems.

Michael N. McGinley – Staff Engineer

Mike is a 2008 graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder with a BS in Electrical Engineering.    He is expert in test and measurement and has worked on a variety of projects for the company.  Mike is especially skilled in tracking down and correcting interference at AT&T and Verizon cell sites.  He also conducted drive testing and radio system troubleshooting for several customers, including  RTD.  Mike joined the company part time in 2010 and full time in 2012.