David was born in 1954 in Suffolk, Virginia, an area rich in historic and haunted landmarks. His family originally settled in the Nansemond
County area from England in 1735. The Rountree family became one of the prominent families in Southeastern Virginia until 1864, when
they lost nearly everything they owned as a result of the Civil War.
He moved to Delray Beach, Florida, in the fall of 1963, where he first became interested in the paranormal. In 1965, his next door next door
neighbor, Fred Grosstuck, a retired professor from Joliet University and pattern maker, gave him a book called "Adventures in the Paranormal",
essentially a collection of short stories of events from all over the world that were scientifically unexplainable. Fred also introduced him to
Fate magazine. He participated in the exploration of his first "haunted house" at the age of 17 in Boynton Beach, Florida.

He received his B.S.E.E. in 1973 while serving in the Air Force, in microwave technology. In November of 2007 he received his Masters in
Electronic Engineering in Digital Signal Processing. He is currently working on his doctorate in physics. David completed several workshops
on paranormal investigation in 1976 at the Rhine Research Center at Duke University, and is currently a supporting member of that illustrious
organization. In 1978 he was certified as an audio engineer. David worked in the entertainment industry as a Technical Director, Lighting
Designer and Audio Engineer for over twenty years. He worked for the University of Florida from 1981 until 2001, serving as the Manager
of the student technical group Spinal Tech, as well as being the Technical Director of the University of Florida Performing Arts Series. He
also served as the Technical Director of the Florida Arts Celebration for four years. During that time period he freelanced for several large
production companies in the state of Florida, working a variety of shows ranging from Opera to Rock Concerts across the South Eastern
United States. Currently David is Manager of Public Address Communications Technologies and Director of the Audio Research and
Development Lab for the third largest public transportation corporation in the nation.

David is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an organization of scientists and professionals who are
advancing scientific research. He is also a member of the Audio Engineering Society, an international professional organization dedicate
to the standardization of the audio industry. David is a member of the International Frequency Sensor Association, which provides a forum
for academicians, researchers and engineers from industry to present and discuss the latest research results, experiences and future trends
in the area of design and application of different smart sensors with digital, frequency (period), time interval or duty-cycle output. This
organization is essential for developing modern measurement science and technology. He is also a member of The International Executive
Guild and is listed in Who’s Who International of Information Technology. David is also affiliated with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers and works directly with audio equipment manufacturers to influence the design of products and implement new technologies

From 1977 until 2001, he performed many investigations in the area in and around Gainesville, Florida, as a member of a small, highly
specialized research team. During this time David experimented with both scientific as well as metaphysical techniques in his study of unexplained
occurrences he and his small team encountered. Due to several encounters of a very negative nature from 1985-87, he made the decision to
concentrate on the scientific research concerning the phenomena, and not the metaphysical aspects of the events. In 1992 David formed a new
organization, Scientific Paranormal Investigative Research Information and Technology (S.P.I.R.I.T.), and began a long and painstaking process
of collecting, building and focusing a battery of Hi-Tech instrumentation to concentrate on laboratory and field experimentation to search for the
cause of paranormal phenomena. By 1998 his focus of research had narrowed to phenomena specific to “Hauntings”.

His primary focus since 1998 has been EVP research, employing his background of audio engineering and psychoacoustics. In 2005 David
successfully linked electromagnetic fields as the primary source of EVPs. He continues to gather data to attempt to locate the source of the
electromagnetic fields that cause the EVP phenomena.

David is a multifaceted individual with many varied talents: he was on the Renn Fair and Science Fiction - Fantasy Convention circuit for many
years (as "Greywolf the Wanderer") working with various vendors selling artwork and Gallo pewter, and eventually promoting a novel he wrote
with his wife, Laura, whom he met in 1999, Their novel, "Dark Lord" (ISBN 0-595-14692-9, available from Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com),
was published in 2000. David Moved to New Jersey in 2001, and they married in 2003.

Because of their mutual interests in the paranormal, (she was formerly a member of Donna Kent's investigative group and participated in the now
infamous Dudleytown investigations) they formed Skylands Paranormal Investigations in April of 2005, and began to work actively in training
interested people in investigative methods for no charge. In 2007 they ended their training program and David returned to his original organization,
S.P.I.R.I.T. and launched a rigorous new research plan with a small and highly specialized team of scientists to focus on paranormal research
specific to haunting phenomena. He began to design new equipment and systems to study findings from field investigations in Florida and New Jersey.

David is the Director of S.P.I.R.I.T., Co-Director of New Jersey Paranormal Resource Group, Co-Founder of New Jersey Paranormal Investigative Coalition, a member of the Rhine Research Center, life member of the New Jersey Ghost Hunter’s Society, member of the International Paranormal Investigators, and a member of the International Paranormal Research Association. He supports the World Wide Paranormal Reporting Center.

David's additional areas of research includes investigating the relationship between free air conductance, magnetic fields, radioactive emissions, electromagnetic fields and electrical radiation surrounding paranormal phenomena. He is also experimenting with injecting energy into a paranormal event horizon using Tesla Coil technology in order to observe and record the effects. He continues to measure the effects of massive ion bombardment in a paranormal environment. He is developing a device designed to capture and analyze the phenomena refered to as orbs in order to either prove or dismiss their existence. David is also experimenting with a self designed ITC (Interdimensional Trans-Communications) device using electromagnetic field propagation as a medium of cross communication.

David was recently featured on Comcast Newsmakers. He has also been a guest on WNTI FM, and WRNJ AM-FM radio in Hackettstown, NJ, as well as a repeat guest on HSTV Channel 23 in Hackettstown on the show “Science on the Edge” hosted by Dr. Karl Hricko. He has made guest appearances on Web Radio programs such as Ghost Census Radio, The Inner Circle, Magic Mind Radio, The Brian and Baxter Show on Warning Radio, with Royce Holleman on Paranormal Palace Radio and
Lights Out Radio. He is available for speaking engagements for a small honorarium. Current presentations include Introduction to Paranormal
Investigation, Paranormal Research Technology and "Haunted Hackettstown".

Today, Scientific Paranormal Investigative Research Information and Technology is a small dedicated group of scientific researchers
based in New Jersey seeking answers to the paranormal questions remaining to be answered. Thier research and theories are located on
the S.P.I.R.I.T. web site.

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