Rick Jasper

Job Objective: Web Development Manager

Summary: 12 years running large Internet web servers, administering, writing programs, interfacing with customers. Worked with both large, multinational and start-up firms. International experience.

Experience:

Delphion spun off from IBM in 2000 and despite the dot com bubble burst, became profitable within two years by making the world's patent information searchable via the web. Delphion also provided national government's patent offices with a turnkey solution to quickly put their patent data on the web. Thomson bought Delphion in 2002.

• Managed the international team supporting the British, Swiss, Dutch, and Japanese national patent offices web sites.
• Built and rebuilt the Delphion web site 4 times over the last 9 years from the ground up.
• Led the team that installed the Japanese patent office system.

• Part of a 20-person IBM Research team that in 1997, made patent information searchable on the web for free and later, formed Delphion, Inc.
• Initiated, planned and executed multiple mainframe reduction projects, coordinating teams of up to 30 people over six months, and saving the IBM Almaden Research laboratory over $2 million.
• UNIX System Administrator for 12 years. VM mainframe system programmer before that.

Skills: Java & Java Servlets, Perl, Expect, Javascript, CGI, C/C++, Korn Shell Scripts, Apache Web and Tomcat servers, HTML, CGI, DB2, SQL, MySQL, DNS, NIS, AFS, DFS, NFS, CVS, VM, REXX. Some Java & Java Servlets, Expect, Javascript, C/C++, Eclipse, Subversion.

Formal Certifications and College Degree:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Certified Technician (RHCT)
• AIX 5 for IBM eserver pSeries System Administrator Certification
• B.S. in Computer Science from Chico State University, CA