I    US Secret Service, Department of the Treasury, Basic & Advanced Questioned Document Course,  Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), Glynco, GA. Instructors: John W. Hargett, Edwin Alford, Thomas Smith, Gregory Floyd, Rich Dusak, Susan Fortunato. Over 100 hours of Classroom and Laboratory Training.

II    Board Certified with The American Board of Forensic Examiners, Springfield, MO, July 1993 to present.  This elevated Diplomate status attests to advanced knowledge, proficiency and qualifications in regard to handwriting identification. ACFE membership provides access to the network of forensic examiners around the world that can be called on at any time for assistance.

III    Graduate - Training Course in Forensic Document Examination, Andrew Bradley and Associates, Denver, CO. Andrew Bradley has been a Forensic Document Examiner for over 30 years. This course provides specific case situations, graphic examples and practical exercises. Mr. Bradley can be called on at any time to collaborate on cases where a second opinion may be necessary. 

IV    Member - National Association of Document Examiners.  Annual Training Seminars. Classes pertain to evaluating the true origin of questioned documents, handwriting identification, deliberately altered signatures, properties of ink, and comparing drawings for identification purposes. Instructors: Haywood Starling, Forensic Document Examiner (ret.) North Carolina SBI; Eric Speckin, Speckin Forensic Lab.; Larry Miller, Ph.D., State Document Examiner for Tennessee.  www.documentexaminers.org

V    NC Department of Justice, Edneyville, NC, 1999. Certificate of completion of the course in Document Forensics. Instructor: Joe Lucas, Forensic Document Examiner.

VI    National Association of Background Investigators, November 1999. Certificate of completion of the Background Investigations, Forensic Documents and Body Language Class. Instructor: Van Ritch, Lt. Colonel, Retired, Administrator - NC Justice Academy. 

VII    Graduate - International Graphoanalysis Society, Chicago, IL, 1988. Acquired certification in graphoanalytic technique which is the study of stroke formation, pressure, spacing, and slant of handwriting.

VIII    Private Investigator, NC License No.2352, November 1995 to present. Witness locating and interviewing, criminal and civil cases.

IX    Graduate - The Laboratory for Scientific Interrogation in Scientific Content Analysis, Phoenix, AZ, March 1996. This course (SCAN) enables the participant to obtain information, analyze it, and assess it in an effort to detect deceptions and omissions. This scientific approach stresses the content of verbal and written communications.

X    NC Academy of Trial Lawyers, February 1997. Legal Assistant. Attended continuing education seminars offered throughout the state.

XI    Asheville, Fletcher, and Hendersonville, NC Police Departments. Professional services in handwriting identification cases. References: Sergeant David Adams, Detective Rich Arell (ret.), Detective Rusty Sweezy.

XII    NC Insurance Crime Information Exchange, February 1997. Annual seminars. Instructor in forgery and handwriting identification to law enforcement officers, attorneys, and insurance investigators.

XIII    SC Insurance Fraud Investigators, 1999. Key Pathway Analysis, Instructor: Richard Pacheco, Board Certified Forensic Examiner. Interviewing, Interrogation and Statement Analysis, Instructor: Don Rabon, NC Justice Academy.

XIV    NC Association of Private Investigators, January 2000 to present.  Work Place Violence, Characteristics of the Violent Offender & The Stalker & Stalking Behavior, Instructor:  Special Agent Michael Prodan, SC Law Enforcement Division.