david groome
David graduated from the University of Colorado with a
BS degree in Mechanical Engineering, in 1961. After
graduation, he joined the Commissioned Officer's Corps
of the US Public Health Service. After a summer training
period in Radiological Health, he was stationed in Las
Vegas, NV, and assigned to the group responsible for
Off-Site Radiation Safety at the Nevada Test Site,
during the period of heavy nuclear weapons testing in
the early 60's. A promotion placed David in charge of
test surveillance report writing, which included an
exposure to computer programming on a early IBM 1620
computer.
His next assignment was on loan to the State of Colorado
Public Health Department, where he worked for two years
doing research in Whole Body Radiation Monitoring, a science
of detection of extremely low levels of both naturally
occurring and trace elements of radiation in a person's
body.
Next was a research position with the University of
Colorado, Department of Nuclear Medicine. This position
involved the use of computers in Nuclear Medicine as both a
teaching and research tool. During this period he also
attended Colorado State University, Fort Collins, studying
for a Masters degree in Radiation Biology, where he
completed the course work but not the dissertation.
Also during this period David started and operated
DATAMETRICS, a data processing computer service company in
Boulder, CO. During its ten years, from 1965 to 1976, the
company grew to over twenty-five employees and built an 8000
square foot office building. It was later sold in the late
70's, as the miniaturization of computers allowed smaller
companies to do much of their own computer processing.
After a short retirement, David joined Com Dev, a
small Florida telecommunication firm, in a regional sales
position and relocated to Southern California, at Oxnard. A
year and a half later the company was sold to General
Dynamics, which already had its own sales force in place.
Upon being offered a position as a product manager, he
relocated to Sarasota, FL. This assignment was an
interesting one, combining computer software expertise and
marketing, and involved extensive foreign travel to
countries such as Austria, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, and
Venezuela. After leaving Com Dev, he consulted with Voice
Technology Corporation in Atlanta, GA., and headed by a
former supervisor. He joined the firm for a short period as
Director of Customer Services, to assist in their
reorganization.
Returning to Florida, he was kept busy by requests for
computer assistance by both individuals and businesses and
formed MicroMetric in 1988.
Initially doing all of the field and office work, David focuses
his attention on administration, with some time spent on database programming and web site development.
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