David CiambroneDr. David Ciambrone is a retired aerospace and defense company executive, scientist, professor of engineering, and a business and environmental consultant and is now a best-selling, award-winning author living in Georgetown, Texas with his wife Kathy He has published twenty-five (25) books: four (4) non-fiction, two (2) textbooks for a California university, and nineteen (19) mysteries and has two (2) new mysteries in work. He is the author of the Virginia Davies Quilt Mysteries.Dave has been a speaker at writer's groups, schools, colleges, libraries, quilt guilds, writer's conferences, and business/scientific conferences internationally.Dr. Ciambrone also wrote three newspaper columns and wrote a column for a business journal.Dave is a member of Sisters in Crime, the San Gabriel Writer's League, the Writer's League of Texas, Mystery Writers of America, the International Thriller Writers Association, The Beacon Society, and DFW Sherlock Homes Society.Dave was appointed a U.S. Treasury Commissioner and to the management board of the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) by President Clinton.He is a Fellow of the International Oceanographic Foundation.Dave has a Bronze Trowel Award from the Archaeological Institute of America.He is also a member of the Order of Merlin of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.Dave was a consultant for the L.A. Coroner's office and worked with a police department.The Chinese government made him a Dragon Master. Read More Read Less