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Cirriculum Vitae

Education
A.A. Business Administration
College of the Desert, Palm Desert, California

B.A. Business Management
University of Redlands, Redlands, California

M.A./M.A. Business Management/Social Psychology
(Course Work Only Completed, No Thesis, No Degree)
West Coast Graduate School, Los Angeles, California


Professional Licenses
Private Investigator, License Number AA012396
Department of Consumer Affairs, Sacramento, California

Private Investigator, License Number A-95 00262
State of Florida Department of Licensing

Private Investigator, License Number 299-12 560 (Not active)
State of Washington Business and Professions Division

California Real Estate Broker, License Number 00780753
Department of Real Estate, Sacramento, California


Credentials
State of California Teaching Credential
Community College Level, Full Time/Life Time No. 201559


Certificates
Supervisory Certificate (POST)
University of California, Pomona
Advanced Certificate No. 6292

Police Officer Standards & Training (POST)
Department of Justice
Sacramento, California

Criminal Intelligence Data Analysis
Department of Justice (POST)
Sacramento, California

Advanced Criminal Intelligence Data Analyst
Anacapa Sciences - Santa Barbara, California

Police Officer Standards & Training (POST)
Certified (Law Enforcement Background
Investigations Courses, Basic Intermediate & Advanced)

Child Abuse (POST Course)
Delinquency Control Institute
University of Southern California

Advanced Investigative Techniques in Child Abuse
Rio Hondo College (POST Course)

Child Abuse Investigations Course
Napa Valley College

Numerous Real Estate and
Law Enforcement Certificates
(Delineated upon request)


Professional Experience
1986-Present. Self-employed as a Licensed Private Investigator.
1981-1987. Owned a mortgage banking company (sold in 1987).
1971-1981. Deputy / Detective, Riverside County Sheriff, Riverside, CA
As a Riverside County Sheriff's Deputy for approximately ten years, I was an investigator for
eight of those years. My investigation experience was in the following areas:
• Organized Crime and Intelligence
• Crime Pattern Analysis
• Child Abuse-Physical and Sexual
• Domestic Violence
• Homicide
• Sexual Exploitation
Instructor at Riverside City College in 1979.
1969-1971: Management Consultant (Resort Hotel Industry)


Public Speaking
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Nashville, TN (April 2004)

• UC Davis Division of Forensic Psychiatry
Sacramento, CA (January 28, 2004)

• ICI (Police Officers Standards & Training) Child Abuse
Sacramento State University (November 18, 2003)

• ICI (Police Officers Standards & Training) Child Abuse
San Jose State University (October 27, 2003)

• PACVSA "Interview & Investigation"
Burbank Police Department Burbank, CA (September 9, 2003)

• National Child Abuse Defense Resource Center
"Science vs. Suspicion" New Orleans, LA (March 14, 2003)

• Florida Association of Licensed Investigators
"Child Abuse Investigations" (Miami, FL (October 12, 2002)

• Institute for Criminal Investigation (Law Enforcement Training)
"Interview & Interrogations" Sacramento, CA (September 19, 2002)

• "Choices Affecting Families & Children in the Legal System"
Butler CO, OHIO (April 2002) Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement and the

• National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
"A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Successfully Reuniting Missing or Exploited Children
with their Families" Tampa, Florida (March 2001)

• Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) Dept. of Human Ecology
Doctor and Post Doctoral students (January 2001)

• California Association of Licensed Investigators
Annual Conference (June 1999)

• California Association of Licensed Investigators
Spring Seminar (April, 16, 1999)

• Northwest Child Abuse Defense Resource Center
Annual Conference (November 13, 1998 Talkily, WA)

• Victims of Child Abuse Laws
National Annual Conference (September 4, 1998 Phoenix, AZ)

• Family Rights Organization National Task Force
National Annual Conference (August 7, 1998 Chicago, Ill)

• Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Coalition Seminar
(November 5, 1997 Grass Valley, CA)

• National Child Abuse Defense and Resource Center Sixth
Annual International Conference (September 11-14, 1997; Las Vegas, Nevada)

• State of New Hampshire Public Defender's Annual Training Conference
(September 4, 5 & 6, 1997; Waterville Valley, New Hampshire)

• Annual Fathers Right Equality Exchange Conference in San Francisco on
"Fathering, Co-Patenting & Disunited Families. (July 18, 1997)

• Contra Costa Bar Association (Martinez, Ca)
Defending Against False Allegations of Sexual Molestation (May 21, 1997)

• Citizen's Conference On The Abuse of Child Abuse Laws, A Symposium to reform
Child Abuse Laws and Protect Children, Families and Human Rights (AB 1355)
California State Capitol (November 1995)

• Fairfield/Suisun, California Rotary Club
(November 1995)

• California Sexual Assault Investigators Annual Conference
Burlingame, California (September, 1995)

• California Sexual Assault Investigators Annual Conference
Long Beach, California (September, 1994)

• Honorarium speaker at several Colleges and Universities.
Counseling experience as well as facilitating programs on Self esteem,
Riverside, CA YMCA
(Delineated upon request.)


Research Activities:
Narcotic Offenders-Compilation and interpretation of data in conjunction
with Dr. Smith and Dr. Cohen. (U.C. IRVINE)

Moral Dilemmas in the Criminal Justice System with emphasis on
Police Officer involved shootings. (U.C. IRVINE)


Criminal Panels(Past or present-Indigent cases):
• Contra Costa County
• Sacramento County
• Solano County
• State of California Public Defender (Death penalty APPEAL cases)

I have conducted investigations as a Private Investigator in the following areas:
• REAL ESTATE AND MORTGAGE FRAUD
• ASSET DETECTION
• PERSONAL INJURY (Plaintiff and Defense)
• WRONGFUL TERMINATION
• CIVIL NEGLECT
• MALPRACTICE
• MOST CRIMINAL MATTERS (Including Homicide)
• BUSINESS & INDIVIDUAL BACKGROUND MATTERS
• PRODUCT LIABILITY
• DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE
• CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE (Recovered and False Memory)
• CHILD ABUSE and SPOUSAL ABUSE
• SEXUAL HARASSMENT
• INTERNAL THEFT
• PARENT ALIENATION


Organizations / Affiliations (Past or Present):
• California Association of Licensed Investigators
• Investigator's On-line Network
• Riverside County Sheriff's Association
• World Association of Detectives
• National Council of Investigation & Security Services
• Fairfield Chamber of Commerce
• California Public Defenders Association
• False Memory Syndrome Foundation
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
• Florida Association of Licensed Investigators
• Professional Investigators of California Association


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
• attended the "15th National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect"
Boston, MA (April 2005)
• attended the Annual Public Defender Training Conference
Las Vegas, NV (April 2005)
• attended CA Public Defender 9th Annual Felony Defense Conference
Yosemite, CA (November 2004)
• attended the "Child Abuse Intervention & Resource Training" Seminar
(POST certified 7660-33370-04001) Berkeley, CA (October 2004)
• Las Vegas, NV (March 2004) 12th Annual International Conference on Child Abuse
(NCADRC) Las Vegas, NV (October 2004)
• attended the Public Defender 4th Annual Conference
Las Vegas, NV (March 2004)
• attended the Michigan Psychological Association Conference at Crystal Inn Conference Center, Traverse City, MI (September 19, 2003)
• attended the False Memory Syndrome Foundation conference
Glenview, IL (October 5, 2002)
• attended the Conference on "Trauma & Memory" at the University of Washington Law School Foundation (August 16, 2002, Seattle, WA)
• attended the International Conference of the "National Child Abuse Defense & Resource Center"
(October 17- 20 2001; Reno, NV)
• attended the Fall 2001 CALI Conference on the "Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation"
(Burbank, CA October 5, 2001)
• attended the National Conference on False Memory
(White Plains, NY; April 7-9, 2000)
• attended a training Conference on "Preserving the Reliability of Children's Testimony"
(Tampa, FL; February 24, 2000)I was a panelist/team member for California Police
Officer Standards and Training Robert Presley Institute of Criminal Investigation (ICI).
The objective of that program was to develop a curriculum of classes that can be
used by training centers that offer these courses.
South Lake Tahoe, California (Oct 25 to Oct 29, 1999)
• attended the International Conference of the "National Child Abuse Defense &
Resource Center" (October 1999; Las Vegas, NV)
• attended the American Bar Association National Conference on "Children and the Law".
(April 8-10, 1998)
• attended the American Bar Association National Conference special program
on "Improving Forensic Interviewing of Children". (April 7, 1998; Washington, D.C.)
• attended the 7th International Conference of the "National Child Abuse Defense
& Resource Center" (October 1998; Las Vegas, NV)
• attended the conference on "Research and Theory in False Memory Creation in Children
and Adults". (February 1998; Boca Raton, Fl - Florida Atlantic University)
• attended the 1998 Advanced Training Institute on "Art and Science of Forensic Interviewing" (APSAC) (January 1998; San Diego, Ca)
• attended a "Special Meeting on Child Abuse Response and Prevention"
(October 1997; Fairfield, Ca)
• attended a course on "Criminal Investigative Analysis Applications Training"
(Psychological Profiling) (November 4-8, 1996; Tucson, Arizona)
• attended the "Western States Sexual Assault Seminar"
(October 1-4, 1996; Las Vegas, Nevada)
• attended the "National Child Defense & Resource Center"
(October 1996; Las Vegas, NV)
• attended a Special Training Institute sponsored by Cornell University and The Just For Kids Foundation, Inc. This institute was a critical assessment of the process and methods used when
interviewing children. (June 1996; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
• attended a conference in San Diego on "The Basic Standards of Care in Diagnostic and
Therapeutic Practices with Memory and the Process of Family Reconciliation". This Conference
was sponsored by the Office of Continuing Medical Education, John Hopkins University.
(March 1996)
• attended The International Association of Special Investigation Units
"Insurance Fraud" course in Naples Florida (September 1995)
• appeared at the State of California Department of Justice, Child Sexual Abuse data base
unit as a consultant (August 9, 1995)
• appeared at the California State Senate Judiciary Committee on SB 41
(Senator Johannessen's Bill changing Immunity standards for Child Protective Workers).
(May 9, 1995)
• attended the John Hopkins Medical Conference in Baltimore, Md.
That medical conference focused on issues of "FALSE/REVIVED Memory
(Memory & Reality: Reconciliation)". (December 1994)
• panelist and part of a POST video training program on CHILD ABUSE for Law Enforcement
(San Diego, Ca. June 1994)I attended Anacapa Sciences Inc. "Advanced (Computer-Aided)
Intelligence" Analysis (Santa Barbara, CA June 1993)
• attended the California Association of Licensed Investigators Continuing Education course
(June 1992)
• attended Santa Rosa Training Center for "Background Investigations" For Law Enforcement
Santa Rosa, California (September 1989)
• attended a "Child Abuse" course at Napa Valley College
Napa, CA (October 7, 1987)
• attended Cal State L.A. "Pre Sergeants Supervisory Institute"
September 1975
• attended a "Child Abuse" course at the University of Southern California Delinquency
Control Institute (1975)
• attended "Management Supervisory Development" at UC Riverside
(May 1975)
• attended the California Dept. Of Justice Advanced Training Center on "Criminal Intelligence
Data Analysis" (September 1974)
• been an integral part of the curriculum design for a Hotel/Motel program
for College of the Desert Palm Desert, California (1970)
• specialized advanced training in Crime Pattern Analysis.
• written and assisted in the management of two Federal grants. One was for an Organized Crime
Intelligence Unit and the other was for a Juvenile Justice Diversion Program.
(1972-1980)
• commissioner on the Riverside County, Ca Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Commission.
(1979-1980)
• commissioner on the Solano County, Ca Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Commission.
(1989-1999)

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