Forensic Document Examiner

I am a Court Qualified Forensic Document Examiner. I have studied and worked with printing fonts and handwriting for over two decades. I have studied under: Katherine Koppenhaver of Maryland, Dr. Joe Alexander of Texas, Bob Baier of New York, and Reed Hayes of Hawaii.

Forensic Examination Provided For:

Disputed documents or signatures including: wills, checks, contracts, deeds, account ledgers, medical records, and autograph authentication. Investigation and analysis including: questioned signatures, suspect documents, forgeries, identity theft, anonymous letters, alterations, obliterations, erasures, typewritten documents, altered medical records, graffiti, handwritten numbers, and computerized and handwritten documents.

Education

• Long Beach Business College, CA
  studies in Forms, Sec., PBX, Business Admin Monterey, CA: studies in Legal Forms

• Sec Monterey School of Graphic Design, CA
  studies in Graphic Arts, Graphic recognition of Forms, Photography, Calligraphy

• School of Forensic Document Examination, Dallas, TX: Forensic Doc. Examination 

• Katherine Koppenhaver's, The Business of Document Examining  

• AIAS, American Institute of Applied Science, certificate of completion

Further Qualifications:

I have reviewed signatures, examined case documents and rendered an opinion on cases from the following states: California, Florida, Texas, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Arizona, New Mexico and Wisconsin

Specific Areas of Training:

• Handwriting Identification and Discrimination 

• Signature Comparison 

• Techniques for Distinguishing Forged Signatures 

• Disguised Handwriting 

• Altered Numbers 

• Anonymous Writing, I & II 

• Laboratory Procedures 

• Forensic Microscopy and Forensic Photography 

• Identifying Printing Methods 

• Papers and Watermarks 

• Factors that Affect Writing 

• Demonstrative Evidence Training 

• Forgery Detection Techniques 

• Detection of Forged Checks 

• Document Image Enhancement 

• Graphic Basis for Handwriting Comparison 

• Mock Courtroom Trails

Laboratory Equipment used for examination:

• Zarbeco Mi-Scope IR and light table

• Premiere Lighted Microscope

• Light Gagne, Inc. light table

• Ott-Light Tru-Color 13W

• Jupiter Magnifier lamp

• numerous magnifying devices 
      including 30x, 20x and 10x loupes

• ultraviolet lighting device

• protractor

• engineering compass

• metric measuring devices

• 35mm and digital photography equipment

• HP-PC desktop

• HP-laptop

• 2 high resolution printers

• 2 digital scanners

• 2 high resolution facsimile machines

• 2 copy machines

Library

I maintain an extensive reference library of forensic document examination titles and other handwriting reference materials by respected authors in the field. Including, copies of 

• "Questioned Documents" by Albert S. Osborn

• "The Problem of Proof" by Albert S. Osborn

• "Attorney's Guide to Document Examination" by Katherine M. Koppenhaver

• "Handwriting Identification, facts and fundamentals" by Roy A. Huber and A. M. Headrick

• "The Document Examiner's Guide to the Justice System" by Ray Walker

Conferences Attended

Conference, Dallas, TX School of Forensic Document Examining - 20 hours per year

NADE annual conference, Tucson, AZ - 40 hours per year

Professional Affiliations

NADE: Member of "National Association of Document Examiners"