Disco Jason

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

This website will let you disco a bit more about Jason Partin; it’s a work in progress that I use it to practice writing a narrative memoir. In other words, the website design itself is a learning process, so please be patient and don’t focus on mistakes.

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

I’m Jason Partin, a close-up magician who also leads workshops and college engineering and innovation courses.

Most people who meet me say that one of the most unique things about me is that I was born the  son of Edward Grady Partin Junior and grandson of Edward Grady Partin Senior, the Baton Rouge Teamster leader portrayed who sent Jimmy Hoffa to prison; he died in March of 1990 during my senior year of high school.

I served in the first Gulf war of 1990-1991, Desert Shield and Desert Storm, then spent three years on the quick reaction force of presidents George Bush Senior and Bill Clinton. I was granted a diplomatic passport for unarmed peacekeeping in the Middle East, then I was honorably discharged from official active service. I went to college and used the G.I. Bill to get my first engineering degree.

I had a few jobs and then invented and co-invented a few medical devices, mostly bone and soft tissue implants to accelerate healing of broken and arthritic bones. I co-founded companies centered on the technologies, spent a decade doing that work, and then created and led hands project-based college courses in physics, engineering, and socially-responsible entrepreneurship. I served on national and international committees setting global healthcare guidelines, regulations, and Laws: ASTM, ISO, FDA, and EU-MDR.

Currently, I’m a magician. You can often see me performing in the members’s rooms downstairs in Hollywood’s Magic Castle, where I’ve been a member since longer ago than I can fully remember.

Peace,

Jason Ian Partin