Certified Forensic Document Examiner Expert Witness

Expert Witness No.720

Georgia

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 (ABFDE), certified by testing

Professional Affiliations

American Society of Questioned Document Examiners (ASQDE), Member

American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), Questioned Document Section,

Member - Southeastern Association of Forensic Document Examiners (SAFDE), Member Committee E30 on Forensic Sciences and the Questioned Documents Subcommittee,

ASTM International, Member

Current Positions of Professional Contribution

Officer, American Society of Questioned Document Examiners

Participant, Collaborative Testing Services Proficiency Testing Program

Previous Positions of Professional Contribution

Chairman, Scientific Working Group for Forensic Document Examination

Subcommittee on Standard Operating Procedures and Terminology

Director, American Society of Questioned Document Examiners

Editor, Journal of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners

Member, Executive Committee, Scientific Working Group for Forensic

Document Examination

Editor, Southeastern Association of Forensic Document Examiners

Newsletter

Chairman, Awards Committee, Southeastern Association of Forensic

Document Examiners

Member, Evaluation and Examination Committee American Society of

Questioned Document Examiners

Member, Strategic Planning Committee American Board of Forensic

Document Examiners

Professional Experience

Since 1999, a Forensic Document Examiner in private practice in Georgia. Clientele includes attorneys, investigators, corporations, government agencies, and private

individuals. Retired as a Forensic Document Examiner in the United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory, Fort Gillem, Georgia. 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 more than 100,000 items of documentary evidence in over 1900 civil and criminal cases. Provided sworn testimony as an expert witness in the field of Forensic Document Examination on more than 70 occasions, in state, federal, and military courts. Provided testimony by deposition on more than 20 occasions.

Qualification Training

Graduate of the U.S. Army’s Forensic Document Examination Course (1989 1991).

This is a two year resident training program designed to 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.

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.

Additional Training Courses, Seminars, and Conferences

Annual conferences of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners (ASQDE), American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), 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 (ABFDE) - Examination

Techniques in Handwriting and Rubber Stamp Cases Workshop

ABFDE – Canon Photocopier, Facsimile, and Microfilm Training Workshop

Second International Symposium on the Forensic Examination of Questioned

Documents

Rochester Institute of Technology - Orientation to the Graphic Arts

Mead Corporation - Paper Knowledge Course

SAFDE – The Examination of Photocopied Signatures; Distinguishing

Between Line Quality and Ink Line Morphology Workshop

SAFDE – The Use of the Haas Atlas CD Compilation Workshop

SAFDE - Rubber Stamp Plant Tour and Workshop

SAFDE - Typewriter Identification Workshop

SAFDE - Signature Workshop

SAFDE - Difficult Handwriting Workshop

SAFDE - Forensic Examinations of Typographic Documents Workshop

SAFDE - Examining Documents throughout the Spectrum Workshop

SAFDE - Production of Genuine Security Documents & the Detection of

Counterfeit Documents 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

ASQDE & AAFS - Signature Workshops

AAFS - Fraudulent Documents: Their Recognition Workshop

AAFS - Fraudulent Documents: Their Deterrence Workshop

AAFS - Digital Forensic Photography

AAFS - Practical Digital Photography Workshop

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

Bar Code Basics Seminar

Illinois State Police Laboratory - Fracture Match Workshop

Tours of U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, paper mills, check printing and rubber stamp producing facilities.

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

Related Employment

Nov 1999 through Present – Forensic Document Examiner at a Document Investigation Laboratory, GA.

Mar 1991 through Nov 1999 – Forensic Document Examiner (and Special Agent), United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory, Fort Gillem, GA.

Mar 1989 through Mar 1991 – Student Forensic Document Examiner, (and Special Agent), United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory, Fort Gillem, GA.

Mar 1986 through Mar 1989 – Special Agent, U.S. Army CID, Wuerzburg, Germany, with duties as an investigative team chief.

Oct 1983 through Mar 1986 – Special Agent, U.S. Army CID, Fort Ord, CA, with duties as an investigative team chief.

Apr 1981 through Oct 1983 – Special Agent, U.S. Army CID, Fort Benning, GA, with duties as a criminal investigator.

Publications and Presentations

Available upon request.