Canada Border Services Agency - SED

Forensic Document Examiner, Forensic Document Examination Section

About

B.A. (Hons) (1981)
Highest Honours in Psychology
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Certificate of Advanced Studies (2011)
"Statistics and Evaluation of Forensic Evidence"
Université de Lausanne (online)
Lausanne, Switzerland 

I began my understudy training in Forensic Document Examination in 1985 at the R.C.M.P. Forensic Laboratory in Regina, Saskatchewan, and completed my training in 1988.  I continued working as a document examiner at the RCMP Regina lab until 2002. 

At that time I moved to work in the Forensic Document Examination Section at the Canada Border Services Agency - Science and Engineering Directorate in Ottawa, Ontario. 

I have additional advanced training in digital imaging as well as statistics and data analysis.  I am particularly interested in the evaluation of forensic evidence, particularly using a 'Bayesian' or quasi-bayesian approach (with the focus being the likelihood ratio or Bayes Factor as opposed to posterior odds).  The pros and cons of this approach are intriguing especially when contrasted to the more 'traditional' evaluation and/or reporting options favoured and used in many forensic science disciplines. 

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