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Expert has 31 years of experience as a Forensic Document Examiner, receiving his initial training at the Eugene Police Department. His professional memberships include the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners (ASQDE), the Questioned Document section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the Southwest Association of Forensic Document Examiners. Additionally, Expert is Certified by the American Board of Forensic Document Examiners (ABFDE). He has served as the past-President of the ASQDE and as the past-Treasurer for the ABFDE.

The majority of cases submitted involve questioned signatures or handwriting. Specialized laboratory instruments are used to compare inks, recover indented writing, and examine fabricated, altered or obliterated documents.

Recent case examples include:
A document submitted by a client in which Expert established the client's signature was traced on a several million dollar mining contract.
A wrongful termination case litigated in Federal Court involved a document in which Expert proved a 'cut and paste' process of the employees signature by a supervisor.
A medical malpractice case was submitted. The doctor (defendant) testified during his deposition he had faxed the chart entry from his office rather than physically being present in the hospital to write the entries in the file. Expert recovered indentations of the chart notes on a subsequent page in the medical file of the patient, proving the doctor was physically present at the hospital when the notes were written.
Testimony was given for the prosecution in a murder trial in Texas. The signature of the victim on a document was proven to be a forgery. The defendant was convicted and believed to have murdered a total of four elderly people.

The most common type of case submission is related to wills and other estate documents.