STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS
CALIFORNIA COURT QUALIFIED
Superior Court: Ventura, Los Angeles, Riverside and Santa Barbara Counties.
Municipal Court: Ventura & Los Angeles Counties.
Federal Court: Santa Barbara County, Kern County.
EMPLOYMENT SECURITY CLEARANCE - SECRET
1961-1980 U.S. Department of Defense
Defense Investigative Service
California Air National Guard
Veterans Administration
SPECIALIZED TRAINING
1989-1990 Training Course in Forensic Document
Examination. Certified by testing, Andrew Bradley, Forensic Examiner with ArapahoeCounty Sheriff's department, Colorado.
Over 300 hours of specialized formal instruction through attendance at seminars sponsored by the World Association of Document Examiners, the Independent Association of Questioned Document Examiners, and Training Courses in Forensic Document Examination with Andrew Bradley.
TRAINING SEMINARS ATTENDED
Fifteenth Annual World Association of Document Examiners,
Chicago, IL, 1988.
Twentieth Annual Seminar of Independent Association of
Question Document Examiners, San Francisco, CA, September, 1988.
Course Title: Expert Witness, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, Mar 1990.
1990 Twenty Second Annual Seminar of Independent Association Of Question Document Examiners, Los Angeles, CA, September.
1992 Ninth Regional Seminar of World Association of Document Examiners, Houston, TX, February 21-2 3.
1992 Annual Seminar and Resident Training Program, World Association of Document Examiners, July 31 - August 2.
1993 Regional Seminar of World Association of Document Examiners, Sarasota, Florida, March 12-14.
1993 Twenty Fifth Annual Independent Association of Question Document Examiners, Educational Seminar, St. Louis, M0, September 22-25.
1994 Annual Seminar and Resident Training Program, World Association of Document Examiners, July 21-24.
1995 Annual Seminar and Resident Training Program, World Association of Document Examiners, July 26-30.
1996 Annual Seminar and Resident Training Program, World Association of Document Examiners, July 24-28.
1998 Annual Seminar and Resident Training Program, World
Association of Document Examiners, July 28-August 1.
2000 Annual Seminar and Resident Training Program, World Association of Document Examiners, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 10-17.
2007 Forensic Document Examiners Inc. Baltimore, Md. Sept. 14-15.
PUBLICATIONS
1993 Avoiding Litigation by Examining Questioned Documents, published in the September issue of Claims People, CLAIMS COMMUNICATIONS.
PRESENTATION
1994 Newspapers of The Streets: West Coast Gangs -
Case Study. World Association of Document Examiners, July.
1995 Identifying the Author of an Anonymous Blackboard message. World Association of Document Examiners, July.
1996 Your Attorney Did What at The Deposition?,
World Association of Document Examiners, July.
1998 Comparison of Initials vs. Signatures. World Association of Document Examiners, July.
2000 Little Things Mean a Lot. World Association of Document Examiners, October.
2004 T.V. appearance on News Extra, Celebrity Justice, January.
2004 Expert Witness on Judge Joe Brown, Johnson vs Case, KCAL T.V. February.
2004 Expert Witness on Judge Joe Brown, Plascenia vs Jiminez, KCAL T.V. May.
2004 Expert Witness on Judge Joe Brown, Fornell vs Luna, KCAL T.V. July.
2005 Expert Witness on Judge Joe Brown, Schan vs Monteyo, Case #592 KCAL T.V. February.
2005 Expert Witness on Judge Joe Brown, Porter vs Brown,
KCAL T.V. May.
2005 Expert Witness on Judge Joe Brown, Robinson vs Watling, KCAL T.V. September.
2006 Expert Witness on Judge Joe Brown, Sanigular vs Boesch,
Case #541 KCAL T.V. March.
LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
Stereo microscope, visual magnification equals 40x.
Light transmission table, various power magnifiers. Measuring devices, rules, grids, plates and protractors. Ultraviolet lamp. IBM computer, printer and scanner. Cameras: Nikon/SLR 35mm, Polaroid-Spectra plus equipment.
Digital camcorder with digital camera.
Olympus digital camera 5x C5500.
Slide projector.
Fax machine and copier.
Canon scanner.
Home Phone: 818-774-0108
Fax: 818-343-5239