Jon Reddick

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Jon Reddick

Jonathon "Jon" Wayne Reddick born June 23, 1969 in Boynton Beach, Florida to Sharon and Kenneth Reddick, Sr. as their only son. He has four half siblings from his father's previous marriage: Tony Reddick, Sandy Reddick, Debbie Reddick and Kenneth Reddick, Jr..

Jon is regularly well-known (and slightly less regularly well-liked) for his acerbic wit, and an often caustic sense of sarcasm.

Throughout his life he has been labeled with the moniker of "nerd" or "geek" long before the technology and internet boom of the 1990's rendered those names, and their associated personality traits, enviable. In short, Jon was a nerd long before being a nerd was cool. Fortunately for him, and poetically just for those who asserted the epithet, it turns out that the world has gone digital, and being a nerd now pays the bills.

Childhood

Although both of his parents and their extended families were born, raised & lived in Missouri, Jon's parents moved south just in time for him to be born at exactly 3:33am on June 23, 1969 in a hospital on the east coast of Florida. He was the first and only child of 18-year-old Sharon Reddick, and the fifth child (and third son) of Ken Reddick, Sr.

His early childhood was spent as a snowbird as his family moved north in the summers and back to Florida in the winters. But at the urging of his maternal grandfather, his parents did finally settle down in central florida, where Jon was raised a Floridian for the rest of his formative years. Most of his childhood was spent in the heart of central Florida living in Loughman, a small census-designated place (apparently not even worth being a town) on the northeast corner of Polk County right near the Polk/Osceola border.

Jon led largely average and boring childhood in his rural family home on Pete's Lane.

Jon became very involved in school music programs beginning in the seventh grade at Haines City Middle School, playing baritone, tuba and sousaphone throughout high school and during the first few years of junior college. After a single season marching with Magic Drum & Bugle Corps in 1990, he set down his horn and hasn't played since.

During the school break of the Christmas holidays in the late seventies and early eighties he would travel with his father, then a professional long-haul truck driver, on a run up the east coast, always returning home just in time for Christmas morning with the rest of the family. It was during one of these holiday truck driving vacations with his father that, in a smoky hallway leading to the restroom of an anonymous truck stop that Jon first encountered a Space Invaders video game cabinet. He was captivated not only with the game but with the technology behind it, and this started an early passion for all things video and electronic.

Education

Jon with his mom & dad, graduation day from HCHS, 1987
  • Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
1990-1993, BS in General Communication
1987-1990, AA in Mass Communication
1984-1987, Band Manager, AP English, CP Calculus

Occupations

  • Grass Valley USA LLC, Hillsboro, OR : 2010 (?) - Present
  • Thomson Grass Valley, Jacksonville, FL : January 2008 - 2010 (?)
Quality Assurance Engineer & Team Lead at Thomson Integrated Production Solutions (IPS)
  • Thomson Grass Valley, Jacksonville, FL (Contracted via ATS Tech, Inc.) : April 2007 - January 2008
Quality Assurance Engineer at Thomson Integrated Production Solutions (IPS)
  • WCTV Television, Tallahassee, FL : November 1991 - April 2007
Production Manager/Senior Newscast Director
  • Radisson Hotel Tallahassee, Tallahassee, FL (Now Park Plaza Hotel) : June 1990 - November 1991
Room Service Waiter, Dining Room Staff
  • Radisson Hotel Orlando-Lake Buena Vista, Orlando, FL
Room Service Waiter, Cook, Pool Grill
  • Ramada Resort Maingate (now Ramada Resort Main Gate) : August 1987 - March 1990 (sporadically)
Room Service Waiter, Dining Room Staff

Hobbies & Interests

In 1996 followed Alan Parsons around six cities through the midwest on the United States tour for the (then) new album, "On Air"
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A Sample of Alan Parsons Music

Residences

Marriage/Children

In the fall of 1990, Jon met his future wife, Laurie "Ro" Reddick nee Normand, when both attended an early meeting of the USS Khai Tam (then Shuttle Heritage).

After a long courtship, they were married in a quiet, legal ceremony in the Leon County Courthouse (Tallahassee) on September 26, 1997, and then had a second ceremony with all friends in attendance on November 1, 1997. They have one child, daughter Dana Kathryn Reddick, born January 17, 1998.

Achievements

Florida All-Star Marching Band patches
  • Commanding Officer of the USS Khai Tam, 1992-1995 & 1997-2005
  • Florida Bandmasters Association All-Star Marching Band, 1985-86
  • Attained rank of "Life" in Boy Scouts of America, 1978-86
  • National Junior Honor Society, 1982

Affiliations

Trivia

  • Has a 1/4" scar on the palm of his left hand under his ring finger from a hematite wedding band breaking while performing a magic trick
  • His Xbox Live gamertag is REDdimension
  • Jon can sleep through almost anything, including three separate alarm clocks going off simultaneously.
  • He also snores loudly enough to wake fellow Khai Tam crew members at Trek conventions. Though they might try nudging him gently, or even smacking him with pillows, his Klingon Opera usually continues unabated. See above.
  • Co-creator (with Jason Harden) of the word, "scrit"
  • Has an fascination with apes, gorillas & monkeys (likely stemming from an adolescent Donkey Kong fixation)
  • Was the first in his family to graduate from college
  • One third of what Jon's dad called the "Loughman Three Amigos," along with Billy Gallinger and Michael Gray
  • His PPED is December 9, 2020.
  • In December 2008, he reluctantly registered with Facebook in order to connect with old friends.
  • During a visit to Moscow, Russia in November 2013, learned his name spelled in the Cyrillic alphabet is Джон Реддик.

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