Disco Jason

Disco is a Latin verb that means to know, or to learn, as in discover.

This website will let you disco a bit more about Jason Partin. It’s a work in progress, a way for me to practice writing a narrative memoir and keep my fingers dipped in website design and SEO. All blogs are full of mistakes and run on sentences with irreverent facts about things like Latin verbs.

Please see my LinkedIn Page for a more traditional curriculum vitae, or scroll down to disco more.

I’m Jason Ian Partin, nicknamed Magik, a sleight-of-hand magician who also consults medical device teams and leads 3-4 day training workshops on R&D, Quality Assurance, and Regulatory Compliance (FDA, EU-MDR, ISO, MDSAP, OU812, etc.). Many people call what I do continuous improvement.

Before college, I was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne, a combat veteran of the first Gulf war, and an unarmed peacekeeper in Israel and Egypt with diplomatic privileges; our goal was peace in the Middle East (judging by recent news, we didn’t succeed).

I used the army college fund to attend LSU – where I was co-captain of the newly revised wrestling program and mentored by Coach Dale Ketelsen – for a degree in civil and environmental engineering, and I earned a masters degree from UAB while I worked as a biomedical engineer with the Veterans Administration Healthcare System, researching the effects of implants on spine biomechanics.

After leaving the VA, I worked and consulted across a range of disciplines, co-founded companies centered around medical devices, and some of our early innovations were acquired by conglomerates. Back then, FDA laws and ISO refutations weren’t as understood or followed as much as they are now, and some of the technology remained stagnate. I became focused on Quality and Regulatory concepts after watching those devices fail to continuously improve, and now believe that innovation and regulatory oversight can march towards equitable healthcare hand-in-hand.

As a side-gig, I’ve been performing and designing magic since I was 8 years old. It’s what I love to do, but like someone who enjoys cooking, doing it as a necessary job may not be as fun as they imagine; the cobbler’s sons have no shoes, and too much of what we love diminishes the magic. I also am an avid rock climber, so my hands are often thrashed from sharp granite cracks and dry alpine air. But, I set aside climbing and focus on preparing for shows when requested and for a good cause. Other wise, for magic and most things in life, I advocate starting local: chef-owned restaurants, shoe repair shops, and local magicians who are vested in their community.

Peace,

Jason