David Holmes served as a Peace Corps English teacher at C. H. Dewey High School in Tubmanburg, Bomi County from 1978 – 1979. After completion of service in 1979, he worked at Hotel Victoria in Robertsport, Grand Cape Mount County until the 1980 coup. He then found work in Monrovia at the U.S. Embassy snack bar on Mamba Point. Returning to the US in 1982 he began work on retooling his career from education to business and finally graduated with an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, located in Glendale, AZ, in 1985.From 1986 – 1996 he worked in Financial Management with USAID contractors in francophone countries. In the second half of 1996, he returned again to the US and eventually found work in the emerging internet sector in 1998, finally becoming a Controller at an aerospace business-to- business marketplace site. In 2005 he joined the Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Company, transferring in 2008 to their Nuclear Power Division and retired from there in 2015 having attained the position of Business Unit Controller.

He and his wife of 30+ years currently live in Blue Ash, OH and have two grown daughters who carry on their own lives along the Trenton, NJ to Washington, DC corridor.