Sharon R. Hampton

Sharon R. Hampton has been working in the field of document examination for 20 years. First working for USA Funds, the student loan organization, and then for Conseco in Carmel, Indiana, all prior to formal training, starting in 2005. Before formal training, tens of thousands of comparisons had been performed and a love for the work developed, working 6, 12-hour days a week for 16 months, which was a great privilege for experiencing the practice of document examination.

Graduating and certifying in 2007 from The School of Document Examination, Dallas, Tx., was followed by future certifications from SAFE, and then IADE. Sharon's passion is exposing the injustice of false documents wherever they are found, but especially in the US Courts. So far, false, and altered, and forged documents have been uncovered in Prosecution's Exhibits in Federal Court records where a successful conviction and a 10-year sentence was served by a father and son. Then, false documents in an Indiana State Prosecution's Exhibits, convicted and sentenced a man to 16 years in 2010, he is still serving his sentence. In an attorney malfeasance criminal case, a substituted document in a plea agreement converted a misdemeanor drug charge to a Class 2 felony for 11 defendants charged on the single indictment. Instead of 6 months and probation, they each got 10 years.

We have no idea of the enormity of the problem of lies on paper, but it is an ever-expanding enterprise. And with it often comes retaliation, either by the judge or an attorney, which speaks lies about the document examiner, and enters them into the record, and often seals the record to the public.

Eileen Page

Eileen Page has been in business as a Questioned Document Examiner for over 20 years. She has a Master of Arts Degree in Critical and Creative Thinking from the University of Massachusetts in Boston. She also has a Bachelor of Science Degree from Fitchburg State University in MA. Her primary education and training was at a 6 year residential program with WADE, the World Association of Document Examiners. She keeps current by attending conferences and weekly classes with Kathie Koppenhaver. She has conducted many research projects one of which includes her published Master's Thesis which compared drawings and handwriting. Her experience in the field has been diversified and has rendered opinions on such documents as Wills, Deeds, Loans, Notary Journals, petty cash slips as well as identifying writers of slanderous and threatening anonymous notes. She has been deemed court qualified and has testified in Land Court, Probate and Family Court, and Superior Court.

Tomlinson Rauscher

Dr. Tomlinson Rauscher has 30 years of experience managing the development and delivery of computer systems products. He worked at Xerox Corporation managing the development of software systems and reprographic systems products. From 1997 through 2007, Dr. Rauscher held executive product development management positions in the computer storage industry. Since 2007, he has directed the design and development of electronic signature hardware and software systems at Interlink Electronics and Topaz Systems. Rauscher retired from Topaz in 2018, and now consults part-time for Topaz and other businesses.

Rauscher earned his B.S. at Yale University, his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, and his M.B.A. at the University of Rochester William E. Simon School of Business. Dr. Rauscher has been a speaker, panelist, session chairman, and program chairman at several technology, computer, and management conferences addressing technology topics such as electronic signature technology, computer storage systems, and software development processes; and management topics such as time-to-market and organization architecture. He is the author/coauthor of two books, more than 25 technical publications, and five patents.

Teresa Brooks

Teresa Brooks is a Forensic Document Examiner and Certified Handwriting Analyst located in Birmingham, Alabama. She is a 2006 graduate of The International School of Forensic Document Examination. Her mentors include Kathie Koppenhaver, CDE, Larry Miller, Ph.D., Richard Orsini, MS, DABFE, CDE, and Reed Hayes, CDE. In addition to her many years of experience as a document examiner, Teresa has over thirty years of experience in the legal and medical fields. She has a vast knowledge, understanding, and competency in business operations and management, from secretarial to administrative functions. She is currently working as a full-time Forensic Document Examiner.

Kathie Koppenhaver

Kathie Koppenhaver is a Certified Questioned Document Examiner with 39 years of experience. She founded the International Association of Document Examiners. She has testified as an expert witness in court and deposition over 550 times in various court and depositions in the United States and in Sweden, the Philippines and Trinidad. She has given opinions on over 3600 cases since 1983.

Jonathan W. Hak, Q.C.

Jonathan W. Hak, Q.C. is a barrister and solicitor, international imagery law lecturer, adjunct associate law professor, and PhD Candidate. He was a Crown Prosecutor with the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service for over 30 years and has extensive experience leading and challenging expert evidence in the courtroom. Jonathan has been teaching law through all of his legal career, teaching extensively in Canada, US, UK, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Since 2006, he has taught Courtroom Testimony for Expert Witnesses to a broad array of experts from across North America and beyond. He obtained his formal legal education in Canada (MRU, UBC), the United States (Cal State), and the United Kingdom (Cambridge). He is currently a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Law at Leiden University in the Netherlands where he is focusing on the use of non-textual evidence in international criminal prosecutions for atrocity crimes.

Brianne Breedlove

Brianne Breedlove owns and operates Uncover Forensics, a forensic training and consulting company offering a variety of services to professionals in the field. Ms. Breedlove is also a latent print examiner and crime scene investigator, working with various law enforcement agencies since 2009. She has had the privilege of presenting training lectures for organizations such as the IAI and many of its divisions across the United States, as well as for multiple study groups of forensic professionals. Ms. Breedlove is also an observing member of the ASB Friction Ridge Consensus Body, where she participates in discussions on standards and best practice recommendations for the friction ridge community. She is grateful for the opportunity to participate in this year's conference.

Nanette Barto

Ms. Nanette Barto is a Certified Questioned Document Examiner that began her career in 2007 and has examined over 840 document examination cases involving over 1500 questioned documents which required testimony in more than 50 cases. She trained with the International School of Forensic Document Examination and has led many cases as well as worked with several leading certified and court-qualified Forensic Document Experts. Her vast range of expertise includes disputed documents or forgery of signatures including wills, checks, contracts, deeds, account ledgers, medical records, and signature verification and authentication. Investigation and analysis including questioned signatures, suspect documents, forged documents, identity theft, anonymous letters, alterations, obliterations, erasures, typewritten documents, altered medical records, graffiti, handwritten numbers, fingerprints, and computerized documents. She has completed an Associate Arts Degree in Legal Assisting and Psychology, held a Real Estate License working with real property title documents, sold cars both retail and fleet handling all aspects of the contracts and purchasing process, and has acted in the capacity of a Notary Public since 2004 executing just about every act that requires notarization such as deeds, trust, wills, and various end of life documents.