Tim Bailey, Education Consultant, tgb@astech-intermedia.com
About Tim - Tim has served as a traveling trainer in many fields including International Import&Export, Excel, Customer Service, and Communications for over a decade. He joined ASTECH in January 2006. He has experience in a variety of projects both professional and personal, such as writing, research, and presiding over a local Denver organization dedicated to reason, science, rationality, and ethics. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems and Operations Management from the University of Arizona. His role at ASTECH - As ASTECH’s Educational Consultant, Tim is responsible for preparing training materials, conducting training sessions and seminars for clients, providing follow-up and related assistance to newly trained clients and conducting MAAX application research for the company.
Favorite Movie: Hard to pick! Some of my favorites are: Contact, The Golden Compass, Heart of the Beholder, Monty Python’s Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail & The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Favorite Food: Beer
Favorite Book: Depending on the subject, anything by Victor Stenger, David Eller, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Michael Onfray, or Daniel Dennett
Favorite Sport/Activity: Philosophy and Rational Inquiry
1. What super power would you most like to have and why?
I would like to be able to immediately cut through irrationality, unreason, confusion, nonsensical gibberish, fear, fraud, and lies with just a single word.
2. What should your theme song be?
Depending on my mood: The Score: An Epic Journey from the Dutch Epica or Greg Edmonson’s Firefly
3. Which historical figure do you most admire, or would like to trade places with?
Homme de lettres, philosopher and encyclopedist Paul Henry Thiry, baron d'Holbach, or perhaps either Paul Kurtz, Richard Dawkins or Kai Nielsen, for modern examples.
4. In your opinion, what is the greatest invention in history?
The Scientific Method.
5. What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
Sitting at a comfortable Irish pub enjoying fine beers and good food discussing meaningful and Philosophical topics with friends and colleagues who have the initiative and aggressiveness to pursue such honest dialogues.
