Forensic Document Examiner
Expert Witness No. 720
EDUCATION:
| • | Master of Science, Troy State University, Alabama; Criminal Justice, 1983
| • | Bachelor of Science, Jacksonville State University, Alabama; Law Enforcement, 1976
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION:
American Board of Forensic Document Examiners (Certified by Testing)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
| • | American Society of Questioned Document Examiners, Member
| • | American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Questioned Document Section, Member
| • | Southeastern Association of Forensic Document Examiners, Member
POSITIONS OF PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTION:
| • | Editor, Southeastern Association of Forensic Document Examiners Newsletter
| • | Member, Editorial Review Board of the Journal of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners
| • | Past Chairman, Scientific Working Group for Forensic Document Examination Subcommittee on Standard Operating Procedures and Terminology
| • | Former Member, Executive Committee, Scientific Working Group for Forensic Document Examination
| • | Former Member, Evaluation and Examination Committee - American Society of Questioned Document Examiners
| • | Former Member, Strategic Planning Committee - American Board of Forensic Document Examiners
| • | Past Chairman, Awards Committee, Southeastern Association of Forensic Document Examiners
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
| • | Retired as a Forensic Document Examiner in the United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory, Fort Gillem, GA.
| • | Held positions as Chief of the Questioned Documents Division, as well as Training Officer and Quality Assurance Officer in the Questioned Document Division.
| • | Completed examinations of over 100,000 items of documentary evidence in over 1100 criminal cases. Testified as an expert witness in the field of Forensic Document Examination, for both prosecution and defense, on 31 occasions, including United States District Court and courts-martial of the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Marine Corps; and civil proceedings.
INSTRUCTIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Former Training Officer, Questioned Documents Division, U. S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory, responsible for administering the two-year course of instruction in forensic document examination. Lectured on numerous occasions on the subject of forensic document examination to groups of investigators of the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, and a number of civilian law enforcement agencies and to instructors from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. Guest lecturer at the U.S. Army Military Police School.
LABORATORY CAPABILITIES:
| • | Microscopy and Photomicrography
| • | Video Spectral Comparison (Non-destructive testing of inks for infrared reflectance and luminescence)
| • | Electrostatic Document Imaging (Detection of writing impressions and invisible writing images)
| • | Color Computer Imaging
QUALIFICATION TRAINING:
Graduate of the U.S. Army’s Forensic Document Examination Course (1989-1991). This is a two-year resident training program designed prepare the graduate to serve as an expert witness in the areas of handwriting and hand-printing comparison, typewriting, computer printed documents, machine copies, decipherment of altered, obliterated and charred documents, laboratory examinations of inks and paper, decipherment of erased entries and indented writings, detection of counterfeit currency, examination of commercially printed matter and the use of related instrumentation.
ADDITIONAL TRAINING COURSES, SEMINARS, AND CONFERENCES:
| • | Annual conferences of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners (ASQDE), American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Southeastern Association of Forensic Document Examiners (SAFDE), and International Association for Identification, Georgia State Division.
| • | Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) - Advanced Techniques of Document Examination for Laboratory Personnel - Typewriters and Other Printing Devices
| • | FBI - Fundamentals of Document Examination for Laboratory Personnel
| • | U.S. Secret Service Questioned Document Course
| • | American Board of Forensic Document Examiners - Examination Techniques in Handwriting and Rubber Stamp Cases Workshop
| • | Rochester Institute of Technology - Orientation to the Graphic Arts
| • | Mead Corporation - Paper Knowledge Course
| • | SAFDE - Rubber Stamp Plant Tour and Workshop
| • | SAFDE - Typewriter Identification Workshop
| • | ASQDE - Photocopier Identification Workshop
| • | ASQDE - Difficult Handwriting Problems Workshop
| • | ASQDE - Typewriter Classification and Identification Workshop
| • | ASQDE - Laser Printer Workshop
| • | ASQDE - Miscellaneous Document Examination Workshop
| • | The Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry - Papermaking: The Process and the Product
| • | Canon Corporation - Photocopier Workshop for Law Enforcement
| • | Canon Corporation - NP-4835 Photocopier Technician's Course
| • | Canon Corporation - Facsimile Machine Workshop
| • | Image Enhancement Applications Training
| • | Imaging and Forensics: New Technologies Workshop
| • | Fraudulent Documents - Their Recognition Workshop
| • | Fraudulent Documents - Their Deterrence Workshop
| • | Bar Code Basics Seminar
| • | Illinois State Police Laboratory - Fracture Match Workshop
| • | Examining Documents throughout the Spectrum Workshop
| • | Tours of U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, paper mills, check printing and rubber-stamp producing facilities.
| • | Second International Symposium on the Forensic Examination of Questioned Documents
