David Goettee: Bio

Mr. David Goettee has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Maryland, College Park with:

• A double major in:
  • Statistics; and
  • Economics.
• Plus, a minor in voice.

He also has:

• A Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Quantitative Methods;
• A Master of Arts (MA) in Economics with concentrations in Econometrics and Multi-regional forecasting; and
• A Master of Science (MS) in Telecommunication Management.

David had various careers in:

• Public Health research;
• Teaching computer science; and
• At the Department of Transportation, in various administrations he was:
• Economist;
• Operation research analyst;
• Information systems specialist;
• Rulemaking specialist; and
• Research project manager.

While his double majors in college, subsequent masters' degrees, and profession careers were in technical areas of statistics, business, economics, and telecommunications, etc., he always remained involved in singing. That is the catalyst that led to formation of TortoiseClimbing™.

He sang in school choirs since elementary school (when public schools had music.) As a chorus member in College, among other things he had opportunities to sing at:

• Casals Festival in Puerto Rico;
• Carnegie Hall in New York City;
• Baltimore Symphony at Lyric Theater in Baltimore;
• On tour around Maryland with the Baltimore Symphony; and
• Numerous concerts at the University of Maryland, College Park and locations in New Jersey and Florida for Christmases, Easters, religious conventions, etc.

After minoring in voice in college, he continued studying voice privately afterward, and continued singing both in choirs and as a soloist. His continuing interest in singing led over the years to singing at a number of public service functions in Washington, DC metro area and Annapolis, MD, including:

• Solist for many years for University of Maryland basketball games;
• Soloist for Takoma Park, MD Independence Day patriotic exercises for many years;
• Hexagon (an annual political satire in Washington, DC to have fun entertaining and to raise money for local charities);
• Soloist with multiple Christmas Messiahs;
• Redskins Singers (football games);
• Choral groups such as the:
  • Southern Maryland Choral Society, now the Maryland Choral Society;
  • Alexandria Singers;
  • Etc.
• Churches, weddings, accompanying vocals on recordings of others, and now with TortoiseClimbing's productions.

He began recording at Bias Recording Studio in 1990 with Mr. Bill McElroy, in 2001 he moved to working with All Access Audio to continue working with Ms. Gerber-Salins, and as of 2019 is again working with Mr. Bill McElroy, now at Slipped Disc.

TortoiseClimbing™ began producing the recording Hymns and Songs of My Mother in 1998 with Ms. Gerber-Salins at Bias, which included beginning writing the companion book, History Through 26 Hymns and Songs in 1999.

When other things in the lives of Ms. Gerber-Salins and David preempted their ability to continue working on this album, TortoiseClimbing™ had to enter a long hiatus for completing the Hymns and Songs of My Mother recording and the companion multiple projects, including the book.

His 2019 retirement from being manager of research projects with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration provided the opportunity to turn full attention to TortoiseClimbing's™ multiple and expanding activities. The immediate project is completing the Hymns and Songs of My Mother project, which includes the multiple activities of:

• Final production of the audio album, Hymns and Songs of My Mother;
• Finalizing content of the companion book of History through 26 Hymns and Songs. (That effort provided the opportunity to explore history in more depth, and to apply his years of writing experience to crafting the 26 different hymn history stories and the summary appendix of historical events over the past 2 millenia impacting evolution of the Christian church);
• Researching options for publication for the book, including ebook and a future project of producing the audio book version of the histories;
• Learning more technical skills in HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, and PHP7 and developing this website;
• Learning technical audio software details for performing post production audio processing using Adobe Audition;
• Layout and page design software for the book using Adobe InDesign;
• Etc.

In order to complete the Hymns and Songs of My Mother companion recording project:

• For recording and mastering studio services TortoiseClimbing™ returned to working with Mr. Bill McElroy, now at Slipped DISC, Ashland, VA. (David originally worked with Mr. McElroy when he was a partner at Bias in Springfield, VA.)

TortoiseClimbing's™ near-term plans after completing the Hymns and Songs project include: mastering and restoring a recording from his high school days, update one or more previously recorded albums for public release, and possibly write companion publications to acompany them. A list of those projects is found at Recordings.

How to contact David

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