More About Rick Jasper

Work Background

In 1996, I joined the IBM Patent Server project, which was a free service IBM provided to the Internet on January 9, 1997. The service was so well received, that IBM spun off the project in 2000 and formed a new company, Delphion, which I left IBM to join.

In December, 2002, Thomson bought Delphion and I once again worked for a big company. But alas, in April, 2006, Thomson laid me off. "Needs of the business" is the only reason they gave. The real reason is Thomson later bought many of their/our competitors (Aureka, Derwent, Micropatent) and eventually phased out most of them. The Delphion web site was eventually shut down in late 2014.

I finished my career with a 12-year stint at Infoblox, a maker of DNS & DHCP servers, between 2006 and 2018.

Personal Background

I graduated from California State University at Chico in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. I worked at IBM between April, 1982 and November, 2000, when the IBM Patent Server project spun off from IBM, into Delphion, Inc. In December, 2002, Thomson bought us and we became Thomson employees. In April, 2006, Thomson laid me off -- the first time I've ever been laid off.

I've been married since 1989 and have two kids, Melanie and Adam. Can you top this coincidence? My mother, my wife, and my daughter all share the same birthday, June 20th.

If you're a family member, I can share with you my list of family birthdays & anniversaries.

Here is "A Spectator's Guide to Water Polo", both a 3-page Quick Start and the bigger, 55-page full guide. It's a great summary of the rules for us novice parent spectators.

Raison d'etre

My family. My wife Kathy, and the kids, Melanie and Adam. Click here to see & get the big, 2.3MB picture or here to see 27 years of the kids growing up.

When not at work, I like to

	Play bridge. Here are the ACBLand local San Jose chapter's web sites. Here are the highlights of my bridge career, mostly my gold point wins. Here are my bridge "Cheat Sheets" from a class I taught in 2003 PDF format (252 KB) or PostScript format (7 MB). And finally, my favorite bridge hands.
	Solve Sudoku puzzles. I like this free Sudoku solver, simplesudoku.
	Pretend I'm a master wood craftsman. In reality, I just dabble in my garage, but one day (probably in my retirement) I hope to have the time to have a full shop and play to my heart's content.
	Research my family tree using Broderbund's Family Tree Maker software. See my pages with them.
	Favorite Songs They're Coming To Take Me Away!!
	Study a mail-order locksmith course I'm taking from Foley-Belsaw.

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