Dr. Ciambrone is also a consultant on management, Six Sigma, Cost reduction, transition from design to production, Program Management and Chemical & Biological Weapons and preparedness.

 

Dr. Dave Ciambrone is a retired scientist, Oceanographer, archaeologist, professor, magician and author living in Georgetown, Texas with his wife, Kathy.

Dave worked for both defense contractors and commercial companies and in the environmental field.

He has degrees in chemistry and chemical engineering. Dave has been a professor of engineering and Material Science at the California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, Instructor of business and operations management and quality assurance at Cal State Universities and an instructor of electronic manufacturing at UCSD and an instructor of business at The George Washington University.

 He is past vice president of Sisters-in-Crime (Orange County, California), a national writers group. He is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters-in-Crime and  President of the San Gabriel's Writer's League, Austin Mystery Writers, Writer's League of Texas and Williamson County Coroners. He has also published nonfiction books that are selling internationally and writes a helpful hints / science newspaper column under the name "Ask Uncle Dave" for the Williamson County Sun. Dave is a member of the Georgetown, Texas Chamber of Commerce.

Dave has worked with police departments and been a consultant on poisons and forensics to police agencies. He has also worked with chemical & biological weapons.

Dr. Ciambrone was appointed a US Treasury Commissioner and to the management board of the Resolution Trust Corporation by the President of the United States.

Dave has awards from archaeological associations and is a Fellow of the International Oceanographic Foundation.

Dr. Ciambrone has been a speaker at writers groups, schools and colleges, conferences and technical organizations.

Dave has published Five Virginia Davies Mysteries, Laguna Treasure, Napa Nights, Pelican Cove and Castle Finlaystoke. There are two more mysteries in work.  He has also published three management books; Waste Minimization as a Strategic Weapon, Environmental Life Cycle Analysis and Effective Transition from Design to Production (release date Sept. 2007).

His present interests include astronomy, writing, his newspaper column, cooking, travel, archeology,  and his grandchildren.