About me...

Basic Info

• • Relationship Status: Married to the most beautiful, Sherrie Fredrick

  • Child: Daniel

  • Dog: Ellie (Cavalier King Charles Spaniel)

  • Political Views: Compassion, Science, Global ecological wellness, Humanitarian, Democrat

  • Religious Views: Christ as my redeemer (Lutheran)

Bio

I work in IT and cybersecurity risk assessment services for NCAR and UCAR. I'm married and have a beautiful wife and son. And even though I was "Darth Vader" on the Star Wars Quiz, I am really on the side of good :-)

• Favorite Quotations "Row row row your boat, gently down the street. Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, life goes down the drain." (Daniel, 3 years old)

• Also: "Daddy Bells, Daddy Bells, Daddy all the way." (Daniel, 3 years old)

Work and Education

• • Employers: NCAR: April 1981-Present

  • College: University of Colorado at Boulder '86, dual-major CS, English

  • Technical Education

    • • Frontiers of Science Institute (FSI)

      • Usenix LISA Conferences 1998-present

      • Interop ITX conferences

      • SANS vulnerability management training

Likes and Interests

• • Activities: Genealogy, Film, TV, Woodworking, Running, Travel, Parenting

  • Interests: Technology, Gadgets, History, Personal Computing, Operating Systems, Science Fiction

  • Books: David McCulloh, Michael Chrichton, Robert J Sawyer, Robert Charles Wilson, Connie Willis, James SA Corey, Vernor Vinge (many others)

• • • Recently Read/Reading:

      • • The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

• • • • A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

        • Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo by Jack Cheevers (History)

        • Micro by Michael Chrichton and Robert Preston (SciFi)

• • Movies: The Martian, Inside Out, Interstellar, The Andromeda Strain, The Day the Earth Stood Still, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 12 Angry Men, Cars, Star Trek (2009), WALL-E, Ratatouille, Dark City, The Thirteenth Floor, Blade Runner, Contact, Gattaca, Apollo 13, Insomnia, A Beautiful Mind, Fly Away Home, Lawrence of Arabia, Serenity, (many more)

• • • Recently Saw: The entire MCU movies and TV miniseries up to date, News of the World, Greenland, Tenet

    • Favorite web videos: here

• • Television: Wandavision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, The Crown, The Mandalorian, The Good Doctor, Heroes/Heroes Reborn, Dr. Who, The Expanse, X-Files, The Newsroom, Heroes Reborn, 12 Monkeys, The West Wing, Nova, Star Trek (OS, TNG, DS9, V, E, & movies)

Contact Information

• • Email: tefredrick@tefredrick.com

• Web Site (personal):http://www.tefredrick.com

• Web Site (professional):https://staff.ucar.edu/users/fredrick

• Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/tim.fredrick3

• Twitter:http://twitter.com/tefredrick