Credentials
PROFILE
Tam Kaiden, a court qualified, Certified Forensic Document Examiner, provides document examination in a private practice.
SPECIALIZED TRAINING
- Graduate of 2-year training and apprenticeship program and has completed 138 hours of in-class lectures and an additional 500 hours of outside study.
- Continuously learns by attending classes, conferences, seminars and lectures of various associations for continuing education in the latest equipment, methods and techniques of document examination.
AREAS OF TRAINING
- Handwriting Comparison and Identification
- Anonymous Writing
- Disguised Writing
- Questioned Signatures
- Questioned Documents
- Questioned Writing on Documents
- Document Alterations
- Computer Generated Documents
- Altered Documents
- Obliterations
- Erasures
- Suicide Notes
- Preparation of Documents for Court
- Court Room Exhibits
LAB EQUIPMENT
- Numerous measuring devices and grids
- Variety of magnification equipment:
- Hand-held magnifiers
- Stationary, lighted magnification lamp
- Omano OM2300/V4 - 7x-45x Zoom Stereo Inspection Microscope with Boom Stand
- Zarbeco MiXScope-MP w/IR & UV illumination
- Panasonic Lumix Digital Camera with Leica Lens/Macro
- Portable Infrared and Ultraviolet Light Sources
- Light Box
- Macintosh/20-inch: 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
- MacBook Pro1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo
- Software: InDesign, Photoshop, QuarkXpress, Adobe Reader, PowerPoint
- Hewlett Packard Officejet Pro L7650 All-In-One/Scanner-Fax-Printer-Copier
LIBRARY
Numerous text and reference books on the subject of forensic document examination and other handwriting identification reference materials including authors such as Ordway Hilton, Albert Osborne, Wilson Harrison, Katherine Koppenhaver , James Conway, Huber & Headrick and Jess E. Dines.
MEMBERSHIPS
- Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)
- American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
A more detailed CV is available upon request.
