Lauren Arihood - North LA Crime Lab, Shreveport LA

Connie Brown - North LA Crime Lab, Shreveport, LA

Dr. George Carmody  is a population geneticist who was born and educated in New York City (Ph D, Columbia University,1967). In 1969 he joined the faculty in the Biology Department at Carleton University located in Ottawa, Canada. During his 39 years at Carleton he has taught courses in genetics, evolutionary genetics, and population genetics. His current title is Adjunct Research Professor of Biology. In 1990 he agreed to assist the Royal Canadian Mounted Police DNA forensic laboratories on statistical and population genetics questions that arise in the application of DNA evidence in criminal prosecutions. Since that time he has lectured widely on these topics and given more than 75 workshops for forensic analysts. prosecutors and judges. He has testified twelve times in Canadian courts and been a consultant on innumerable other cases. He is currently a member of the New York State DNA Subcommittee, the Canadian DNA Databank Advisory Committee and served on KADAP. He often is invited to attend SWGDAM meetings.

Raymond Davis is a forensic scientist with 36 years experience in the field of criminalistics, toxicology and crime scene investigation. He began his career with the California State Department of Justice in 1972 after receiving a degree in Chemistry from the California State University at Sacramento. Raymond was in the initial vanguard of criminalists hired to expand the Department of Justice Crime laboratory system from the main lab in Sacramento to thirteen laboratories throughout California. He was also in private practice in Seattle, Washington from 1979 to 1992.
In 1992, Raymond returned to California and joined the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Forensic Laboratory, serving in the toxicology and firearms section. After two years, he accepted a supervisory position at the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Crime Lab. In 1999, Raymond returned to the Department of Justice as a professional development trainer at the Jan Bashinski DNA Laboratory in Richmond, California. He provided training in general criminalistics, crime scene investigation, courtroom testimony and participated in the interviewing process for new hires.
He has published or presented over fifty technical articles in forensic journals, at scientific symposia and has coauthored several books, the most recent, “Crime Reconstruction”, by Turvey and Chisum.
Raymond has drawn upon his extensive courtroom experience to train forensic scientists, CSI personnel, sexual assault nurse examiners, detectives around the United States the skills to survive and thrive in the courtroom. He has testified in over 1600 criminal, civil and court martial cases from Dallas, Texas to Fairbanks, Alaska. His company, CourtSkills, has trained over 3000 law enforcement professionals from Washington State to Florida and from Massachusetts to California.

Pete Gagliardi, is a Vice President with Forensic Technology.  Mr. Gagliardi spearheads the company’s communication initiatives and has 30 years of law enforcement experience at both the local and Federal levels - most of which focused on the investigation of firearms and explosives related crimes. 

In 1999, he retired as the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division from the United States, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) following 24 years of service.  During his tenure in New York, he was responsible for managing all of ATF’ s law enforcement and regulatory operations within the New York /New Jersey metropolitan area related to firearms, explosives, arson, alcohol, and tobacco. 

Mr. Gagliardi also held several other senior executive positions while assigned to ATF headquarters in Washington, DC.  He has served as the agency’ s principal liaison to Congress, the Deputy Assistant Director of Science and Technology, the Deputy Assistant Director of Law Enforcement Programs, and the Chief of Strategic Planning. 

As a result of these assignments, Pete has acquired and demonstrated a keen sense of awareness of the important factors to be considered in the design of effective violence reduction programs that provide substantial and sustainable benefits for the cop on the street, the policy maker and the public at large.  Many of the Government programs that Pete was instrumental in developing continue to receive national and international recognition. 

Edward Hueske is a visiting professor at The University of North Texas in the department of criminal justice.  He teaches criminal investigation and criminalistics classes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. His research interests include novel approaches to forensic science education and shooting incident reconstruction technology.  He has developed an interdisciplinary criminalistics certificate program that is in its third year at UNT. 

Mr. Hueske serves as the Director of Forensic Training & Consulting, LLC, which contracts with law enforcement organizations to provide on-site training in specialized areas of investigation and forensic science.  He also consults with police agencies, the prosecution and the defense in criminal and civil matters.

Mr. Hueske has taught specialized forensic classes to numerous law enforcement agencies both domestically and abroad.  He is recognized as a leading expert in shooting incident analysis and reconstruction.  He is a member of a number of national forensic science associations and has served in a variety of capacities in those organizations.

Mr. Hueske is the author of the first text to be published on shooting incident reconstruction:  Practical Analysis & Reconstruction of Shooting Incidents published by Taylor & Francis Publishing in 2006.

Mr. Hueske has received recognition from his peers through being made an emeritus member of two professional forensic organizations, receiving distinguished member awards, and receiving several awards for outstanding scientific presentations.

Ronald Kelly is a 1977 graduate from the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, with a B. S. Degree in Chemistry. He joined the FBI Laboratory in 1978 and has specialized in the forensic analysis of evidence from fire and explosion scenes. Additionally, he has been involved in the fire service as a member of the Bowie Volunteer Fire Department & Rescue Squad, Prince George’s County, Maryland since 1977. He is currently coordinating forensic courses at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia in Fire Debris Analysis for chemists.

Mr. Kelly has been involved in many major case investigations, which include the Trade Center Bombing, the Branch Davidian siege at Waco, Texas, the Oklahoma City bombing, the crash of TWA 800, the bombings in Atlanta (1996 Olympics), the embassy bombings in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salam, Tanzania, Unabomber case, and Bali, Indonesia bombings.

Mr. Kelly is presently assigned to the Explosives Unit of the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, VA where forensic analyses are conducted on evidence submitted by Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies from fire and explosion scenes.  He supervises the fire debris analysis cases and has testified numerous times in Federal, State, and local courts.

Mr. Kelly has published work and presented papers on the topics of fire debris analysis, the forensic analysis of explosives, and fire and explosion scene investigations. In addition to the courses he coordinates at the FBI Academy, his duties have also included the training of chemists, police officers and investigators from many foreign countries.

Mr. Kelly is currently qualified as a fire investigator, fire officer, fire service instructor and forensic chemist. He is a member of the International Association of Arson Investigators (IAAI), American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), Technical Working Group on Fires and Explosions (TWGFEX), and the Mid-Atlantic Association of Forensic Scientists (MAAFS).

Dr. Charles J. Maldonado is recognized as an Applications and Components Expert (ACE) in the use of GC and GC/MS. He comes to this meeting with well over 25 years of direct hands on applications and methods development. He is well known and respected in the Forensic field in the analysis of Drugs of Abuse, Toxicology, Pharmaceutical and other related fields

Dr. Maldonado is an Independent Contractor for Agilent Technologies and has been a Certified Agilent Technologies Instructor delivering GC and GC/MS courses across the US and Canada, with work also performed in Mexico and Puerto Rico. He has been with Agilent since Agilent became a new company in 1999.

Dr. Maldonado is Owner and President of International Chromatography Consulting delivering training and preventative Maintenance for labs throughout the US and abroad.

He has had the pleasure of working with a majority of the Crime labs throughout the US and has been requested by name to be the individual to represent Agilent in the “on-site” training engagements requested by labs.

Dr. Maldonado welcomes both the novice MS operator and the seasoned professionals whom have worked with GC/MS for an extended period of time. He welcomes the challenge of making the training enjoyable yet a learning experience for both sides of the knowledge spectrum.

Joe Mann - ATF Shreveport, LA

Robert Ollis is originally from and currently resides in Marietta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.  He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Kennesaw State University.  He is currently employed with the United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory, Drug Chemistry branch.  Previously, he was employed with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for twelve years as technical leader and primary trainer in chemistry.  During this time the GBI attained accreditation to the ISO 9002, ASCLD-LAB, and finally the ISO 17025.  Robert was responsible for the efforts of the drug identification discipline’s estimation of measurement uncertainty.  He is certified as a clandestine laboratory investigator and assessor to the ISO 17025 standard.  He is certified as a fellow (previous technical specialist) in forensic drug analysis by the American Board of Criminalistics, and is co-author of Instrumental Data for Drug Analysis, 3rd Edition (2005).

George Schiro - Acadiana Crime Lab, New Iberia Louisiana

Ron Smith is President of “Ron Smith & Associates, Inc.”, a forensic consultation company located in Collinsville, Mississippi which specializes in case consultation, job placement services, forensic training and management services.  He began his career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1972, moving on to the Alabama Bureau of Investigation and from 1978 to 2002 with the Mississippi Crime Laboratory, retiring as Associate Director. He has over thirty years of experience in latent print, crime scene and laboratory management practices and is certified by the I.A.I. as a latent print examiner and senior crime scene analyst.  In July of 2001, he was awarded the “John A. Dondero Memorial Award”, which is the highest award bestowed by the International Association for Identification for exemplary contributions to the science of forensic identification. Ron has lectured on courtroom testimony techniques, latent print examinations, crime scene investigation and forensic management issues in over forty-five state and numerous other countries. He has been asked to participate in numerous "Process Mapping" projects within crime laboratories and continues to serve in that capacity as a forensic consultant.