ACADEMIC

University of Texas City College San Francisco
at Austin Associates
Degree
B.A.
American Studies With Honors
With
Departmental Honors

University
of Texas
University of Texas
Golden
Key Phi Kappa Phi
National Honor Society Honor
Society
City
College San Francisco
Associates Degree, Criminology
SPECIALIZED INVESTIGATIVE
AND FORENSIC TRAINING
Actual Innocence and
Habeas 23 hours
Center for American and
International Law
Plano TX
August 16-19
New England Forensics
Seminar
National Association of
Medical Examiners
Colby College, Waterville,
ME
August 10-14 2009

International
Association of Forensic Sciences
Eighteenth Triennial
Meeting
New Orleans, LA
July 21-25, 2008
Homicide Research
Working Group
June 11-13, 2008
Sam Houston State University
College of Criminals Justice

Texas Concealed
Handgun Certificate
Certificate of Training
Texas Government Code 411.188
April 18, 2008

Medicolegal Death
Investigator Training, 24 hours
New Mexico Office of
Medicolegal Investigation
September, 2007

Bloodstain and
Bullet Pattern Evidence Analysis for Crime Scene Reconstruction
June 4, 2007, 24 hours Public Agency Training Council, Sandra Mays

Advanced Sexual
Assault Investigation, 16 hour course Verdicus Training, San Antonio, 2007
Establishing Guilt
or Innocence, 8 hours
UT Law School, Austin,
July 2007
Annual Forensics
Seminar 16 hours
TCDLA, Dallas, October
Dallas
The Mind and
Criminal Defense 8 hours
Center for American and
International Law
Plano July 2007
Bill of Rights
Review, 4th 5th and 6th Amendments 6 hours
TCDLA, Ft Worth, Sept
2007
Voir Dire, 14
hours
TCDLA, Dallas,
Cecember 200
Forensics Seminar,
Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
16
Hours, Plano 2004
Lawrence Renner, PA, Blood Spatter Analysis and Crime Scene
Reconstruction
Dr. Natarajan, Autopsy Analysis, Asphyxiation Deaths
Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, DNA Analysis
Martin Dante, Ballistics and gunshot wounds
Dr. Alex Stalcup, Psychology of Addiction
Dr. Matthew Scullin, Child Suggestibility

Medicolegal Death Investigator Internship 2003
El Paso
Medical Examiner’s Office,
El Paso Chief Pathologist,
Corrine Stern, MD ME
96 Hours, El Paso
Practicum in medicolegal death investigation including: Examined bodies
at crime and accident scenes to determine cause and manner of death
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Photographed corpses and scene or scenes where death occurred
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Examined body for cause of death and evidence
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Fingerprinted corpses
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Collected evidence related to cause of death
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Interviewed family, lay, and law enforcement witnesses
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Counseled family members
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Observed and assisted with autopsy under direct supervision of
medical examiner
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Investigated deaths by suicide, motor vehicle accident,
overdose, gunshot wounds, slip and fall, and natural causes.

The
Pathology of Homicide
Southern Institute of
Forensic Science and Texas Rangers
Dr. Ed Waldrip, Dr. Spence
ME, Lubbock
2003--40 Hour Course
Investigation of death caused by civil and criminal means and
pathological injury to the skeleton and soft tissues. Houston TX
Master’s Conference for Advanced Medicolegal Investigation
University of St. Louis,
School of Medicine, St Louis MO
40 Hour Course, 2003
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Child Physical Abuse: Bruises, Bites, Burns, Belly Injury and Broken
Bones,
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Cindy Christian, M.D.
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Inflicted Childhood Neurotrauma, Betty Spivack, M.D.
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Reconstructing Past Events with Bloodstain Pattern Analysis,
Paul Kish
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An
Overview of Fire Setting Behavior: It's Much More Than Playing with
Matches, Dian Williams, Ph.D.
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Investigation of Suspicious Injuries to Children, Phylip J. Peltier
Blood Spatter Analysis
Missouri Western State
College,
45 Hour Course, 2003
St. Joseph, MO
Blood flight characteristics, impact reactions, drying, drop and
spatter formations and spatter patterns. Analysis and interpretation
of blood spatter and stain patterns.
Traffic Accident Investigation and Reconstruction 2002
Marules & Associates
16
Hour Course, San Antonio
Investigative and analytical skills used to make more informed,
provable,
and cost-effective proximate cause analysis. San Antonio
John E. Reid Advanced Interview and Interrogation Techniques
40
Hour Course Austin TX
Intense advanced level Reid 9-Step Behavior Analysis Interview and
Interrogation Techniques for criminal investigators.

Profiling and Crime Analysis 2003
16
Hour Course
Gregg McCrary, FBI
retired
Using inductive reasoning in developing a profile of the offender
through evaluation of the specific criminal act, the details of the
crime scene, analysis
of the victim; and evaluation of the police
and medical examiner’s reports.

Fingerprint Development
16
Hours 2004, San Antonio
Public Agency Training
Council
Latent fingerprint
development and lifting using regular and magnetic powders,
fluorescent powders, iodine, crystal violet, ninhydrin,
cyanoacrylate fuming and other methods of developing prints.

Homicide Investigation
El Paso
Texas Association of Licensed Investigators 1987
A
seminar on interrogation techniques taught by Gus Rose who
interrogated Lee Harvey Oswald.

Investigation of Sudden Unexpected Death
Master Detectives
International
16
hour course, 1985 El Paso TX
Investigation of sudden unexpected deaths caused by job related
injuries, vehicle accident, aircraft crash, explosions, homicide and
suicide.

Eye Witness Testimony,
San Antonio
Texas Association of
Licensed Investigators
Application and veracity of US Supreme Court guidelines on testing
the validity
and credibility of eye witness testimony and cross race
eye witness identification.
Oak Hill Fire Academy
2001--3 Month Course, Austin
Fire Fighting: Structural Fires, Wild Land Fires, Fire
equipment, Methods of Entry, Fire Rescue, CPR, Mass Casualties.

Practical Crime Scene And Arson Photography
32
hours, San Antonio, 2003
Public Agency Training Council
The proper techniques
for recording and preserving evidence
through photography

Financial Investigative Techniques
US Department of the Treasury--Internal Revenue Service
8 hours, Austin
Basic techniques of financial investigation of businesses.

Private Crime Lab Seminar
Texas Association of Licensed Investigators
Criminalistics
technology and techniques in modern crime labs.

Technical Surveillance Counter Measures 32 hour course
Research Electronics International
CPM
700/ OSCOR Sweep Equipment Training
Nashville TN October 2008
Electronic Eavesdropping Countermeasures
50 Hour
Advanced Course,1989
Texas A
& M School of Engineering
Detection of telephone wire taps, RF transmitters, carrier
current devices,
and other wire tap and bugging devices

Electronic Eavesdropping Countermeasures
Texas A
& M School of Engineering,
Basic
and Advanced Courses
80 Hour
Course, College Station, 1989
Detection of telephone wire taps, RF transmitters, carrier current
devices,
and other wire tap and bugging devices.

Electronic Surveillance Countermeasures
Advanced Update Course
Jarvis
International Intelligence Academy
40
Hour Tulsa 1989
Update
course on the theory and practical application of wire tap and bugging
devices and techniques and equipment used in detection of wire
taps and bugging devices. Update on technology and detection of
telephone wire taps, RF transmitters, carrier current devices, and other
wire tap and bugging devices.

Electronic
Surveillance Countermeasures
Jarvis
International Intelligence Academy
Basic
and Advanced Courses
80 Hour
Course Tulsa 1989
Theory
and practical application of wire tap and bugging devices and
techniques and equipment used in detection of wire taps and bugging
devices. Detection of telephone wire taps, RF transmitters, carrier
current devices, and other wire tap
and bugging devices.

Basic
Forensic Hypnosis
The principles and procedures used in forensic hypnosis.

Professional Development Course
Ethics
and business practices in private investigation.
Internet Investigation
for Law Enforcement
February 2008 12 hour course
Harris County Sheriff’s Training Academy
David Vine Associates
PARALEGAL LITIGATION SUPPORT
Propounding and Answering Interrogatories in Civil Litigation
San
Francisco Association of Legal Assistants
Discovery in Civil Litigation
San
Francisco Association of Legal Assistants
Effective Legal Research
San
Francisco Association of Legal Assistants
Affirmative Defense of Insanity Conference 2003
Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians, Austin TX
Capital Issues, 2003
TCDLA/TDS Hunt TX
Defendant’s Future Dangerousness
Texas Defender Services, 2003, Plano TX
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Shooting Reconstruction
Michael Haag, Instructor
Eugene Police Department
Eugene Oregon
August 4-9, 2008
Firearms Trace
Evidence and
Gunshot Wound
Interpretation
Martin Dante,
Instructor
Dallas TX
October 2008

Shooting
Reconstruction and Crime Scene Ballistics,
16 hours Mar
2007, Harris County Sheriff’s Office
Analysis & Reconstruction of Crimes of Violence
24
hours, Kilgore, TX, 2005
Ed
Hueske, Criminalist, Kilgore Police Academy
Reconstruction of Homicide, Suicide, and Accidental Shooting Deaths
Gunshot
wound analysis
Blood
Stain Analysis

Sexual Related Deaths and Violent Crime Scene Investigation
Southern Institute of Forensic Science
24
hours, Houston, 2005
Dr.
Stephan Pustilink—Medical findings in Sexual Related Deaths
Christine Nix--Cognitive Interviewing of Sexual Assault Victims
J.D. Robertson Sergeant, Texas Rangers, Case Management. Ed
Hueske --Bloodstain Pattern Analysis G.W. Hildebrand—Identifying
Serial Sexual Predators
Investigation of Shooting Incidents and Reconstruction of Violent
Crime Scenes
Texas Rangers and Southern Institute of Forensic Science
24
Hours, Houston 2004
Dr.
Vincent DiMaio - Medical Examiner, Bexar County
Tom
Bevel, Bloodstain Patterns
Ed
Hueske, Director of Forensic Training, U of N. Texas
Dr.
Jill Urban, Medical Examiner, Dallas County
Dr.
Hugh Berryman, Forensic Anthropologist

Medical Death
Investigation
Public Agency Training
Council
Tracey Corey, ME
Comal County Sheriff's
Office
December 16-17, 2008
Medicolegal Death Investigator Certification Course 2003
American College of Forensic
Examiners
16 Hour
Course, Phoenix, AZ
Drs Henry Lee, and Cyril
Wecth
Pathological findings and legal issues in death investigation.
Training in DOJ National Guidelines for Crime Scene Investigation
and Death Investigation for Medical Examiners’ Investigators and Law
Enforcement Officers.
Medicolegal Death Investigator Training Course 2002
St. Louis University School of Medicine
32 Hour
Course, St Louis, MO
Designed for medicolegal death investigators, forensic scientists,
and physicians who investigate deaths for Medical Examiner/Coroner
offices. It is designed to satisfy the continuing education
requirements for the American Board of Medicolegal Death
Investigators. St Louis MO

Forensic Medical Investigation
Maricopa County Health System
Mary H. Dudley, ME
2002--40 Hour Course, Phoenix, AZ
Causes and Manner of Death, Postmortem Changes, Forensic Case
Studies, Forensic Anthropology, Blunt and Sharp Force Injury,
Craniocerebral Injury, Motor Vehicle and Aircraft Fatalities,
Firearms Identification/Gunshot Wounds, Sudden Unexpected Natural
Deaths, Asphyxia and Fire Deaths, Electrical/Lightening, Forensic
Toxicology, Alcohol and Drug Related, Child Fatality Review, Sudden
Infant Death Syndrome, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Elderly Abuse

Basic Medicolegal Death Investigator Training, 2007, 25 hours
University of New Mexico
School of Medicine
Office of the Medical Investigator, Albuquerque, NM

Medical Investigator Training
Office of Medical
Investigation, New Mexico Medical Examiner’s Office
40 Hour Course,
Albuquerque, NM 1989
Investigation of deaths caused by vehicle accident, aircraft crash,
explosions, homicide and suicide. Examination of corpse to determine
cause and mechanism of death.

Medical Malpractice
Investigations
Texas Association of
Licensed Investigators
Pretrial discovery, investigation, and evaluation of medical
malpractice cases in civil litigation
TCDLA/TDS Forensics
Seminar 2003,
16 hours, Plano, TX
Annual Forensic
Seminar

Crime Scene Reconstruction
32
Hour Course, Denver
Tom Bevel and Ross
Gardner
Evaluating complex crime scenes for conducting crime scene analysis
and reconstruction. Denver
Handguns and Ballistics
16 Hour
Course, Quantico VA 2003
FBI
Firing Range,
Familiarization with revolvers and semiautomatic handguns and handgun
ballistics, Quantico, VA,
Officer Involved Shooting Reconstruction 2002
Ed Hueske, Denton Police
Academy
40
Hour Course, Ft Worth
Techniques used in
the reconstruction of shooting incidents. Lectures and extensive
hands-on exercises and range demonstrations. Case studies
add additional information. Denton TX

Crime Victim
Compensation Office of the Attorney General of Texas Kerrville, TX April 2007

Child Custody
Investigation 14 hours
Marc Ackerman, Ph D
Specialized
Training Services, Inc
December 2006

Domestic
Violence: Assessment and Treatment 14 hours
Specialized
Training Services, Inc
Donald Dutton, Ph D
December 2006

Advanced Blood
Spatter Analysis Course, Level III, 50 hours Henderson Forensics & Associates November, 2006, Canyon, TX
Specialized
advanced training in blood pattern analysis and crime scene reconstruction
Domestic Violence
and Sexual Assault Volunteer Training Course 47 hours
Safe Place, Austin TX
October 2006
Domestic
Violence and Sexual Assault Legal Advocate Training,
16 hours
Safe Place, Austin
TX November, 2006
Defending Child Sexual
Assault Cases 14 hours Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association Houston TX March 2007
TCDLA Annual
Forensics Seminar 12.5 hours
Texas Criminal
Lawyers Association
September 2006,
Dallas TX
Methamphetamine
Addiction, Dr. Alex Stalcup
Autopsy Analysis,
Dr. Sridhar Natarajan
Firearms Trace
Evidence, Gunshot Wounds, Gunshot Residue, Martin Dante
Blood Spatter and
Crime Scene Reconstruction, Larry Renner
Video Tape
Analysis, Barry G. Dickey
Investigative
Analysis of
Homicide and Violent Crimes 32 hours
Texas Department of
Public Safety
August 2006 Austin,
TX
Child Abuse, Dr
Joni McClain, Southwestern Institute of Forensic Science
DNA Procedure,
Brady Mills, DPS Crime Lab
Medicolegal
Autopsy and Investigation, Dr. Frost, ME
Criminal
Investigative Analysis, G.W. Hildebrand, Retired DPS
Bloodstain
Pattern Analysis, J.D. Robertson, Texas Ranger
Forensic
Entomology, James Olsen, Texas A&M

Shooting Reconstruction 36 hours
Texas Department of
Public Safety
July 2006 Austin TX

Sexual Assault and
Family Violence Investigator's Course 24 hours
Texas Police Association--ACC
Police Department
April 2006, Austin, TX

Medicolegal
Investigator Certification Course 16 hours American College of Forensic Examiners July 2006 Las Vegas, NV
Michael Karagiozis,
D.O. CMI,

Advanced Blood
Pattern Analysis at Crime Scenes
40 hours
Henderson Forensics
and Texas Department of Public Safety
May, 2006,
Austin TX

Sexual Assault and
Family Violence Investigator's Course,
Texas Police Association--Round
Rock Police Dept
24 hours, April 2006,
Round Rock TX
Capital Mitigation
and Habeas, TCDLA
12 hours
April, 2006, Dallas, TX
Personality Disorders, Antoinette McGarrahan, Ph.D.
Psychological Autopsies, J. Ray Hays, Ph.D.
Mitigation Training, Russell Stetler, Scharlette Holdman
Crime Scene Reconstruction
16 Hours
Association for Crime
Scene Reconstruction
Albuquerque, NM--Feb 2006
Bullet Trajectory
Measurement-Michael
Haag
Crime
Scene Photography Techniques--Jerry Goffe
Officer Involved
Shooting--Rod Englert
Capital Murder
Litigation TCDLA 16 hours
South Padre
Island, Dec 2005
Phillip
Wischkaemper, Director Capital Litigation
John Niland,
Texas Defender Services
Danalynn Recer,
Gulf Region Advocacy Center
Background Investigations and Ethics
16 hours
Arlington TX, 2005
Michael Coffey, LPI, Imperative
Information, IRB Search,

American College of
Forensic Examiners
15 hours
San Diego, 2005
Michael Karagiozis,
D.O. CMI,
Medicolegal Investigation
Roy Hazelwood, MS, DABFE,
Serial Sexual Crime
Staged Crime Scenes
EVAW
Dynamics of Sexual
Assault
EVAW on-line course 4.0 hours April 2007
Preliminary Investigation of Sexual Assault
EVAW on-line course 4.0 hours April 2007
Dynamics of Domestic
Violence
EVAW online course 4.0 hours, April 2007
Law and Investigative
Strategy
EVAW online course 4.0
hours, April 2007
Crime Victim
Compensation
Office of the Attorney General of Texas
Kerrville, TX April 2007

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