Volunteer since 1995 in the areas of Training, Certification, Ethics, Quality Assurance, and Development.<\/p>\n
Doug grew up in the Midwest of the United States, born in Wisconsin and raised in Iowa.\u00a0 Doug is fluent in both the languages of cheese and corn.\u00a0 Doug knew in early high school that he wanted to be a forensic scientist after watching an hour of the TV show Quincy<\/em> (way before CSI<\/em>).\u00a0 He started at the Iowa DCI crime laboratory in the late \u201880s as a drug chemist, examined death investigations scenes, and later analyzed serological cases (body fluids). \u00a0Doug has been married for thirty-four years and has three adult children and a three-year-old grandson.\u00a0 He attended graduate schools for nine years and earned his PhD in Education in 2020.<\/p>\n In 1993, Doug attended IACIS in Portland, Oregon.\u00a0 Many of the founders of the organization were the instructors.\u00a0 One memory of that training event was meeting Tom Siepert, who was president of IACIS at the time.\u00a0 With hundreds of attendees, Siepert still took the time to talk to students and remembers details of phone calls that were had months earlier.\u00a0 Doug met other individuals during the training that are still friends today.\u00a0 This training changed the course of his professional career.\u00a0 Doug started the computer forensic unit for the state of Iowa and returned on IACIS staff in 1995.\u00a0 Doug served in many capacities for IACIS over the years.\u00a0 He was elected to the board in 1996 and held many positions until stepping down in 2004. After that, Doug chaired specialized training and ethics committees until returning to the board in 2012 through 2019.\u00a0 This year, Doug has taken on chairing the QA committee and serving on the ethics committee.\u00a0 Because IACIS has provided so many opportunities, Doug feels the desire and the obligation to give back as much as possible.<\/p>\n Doug left the Iowa DCI crime lab and joined Digital Intelligence in 2002.\u00a0 Chris Stippich, the president of Digital Intelligence, was one of the friends he met at IACIS in 1992.\u00a0 At DI, Doug conducted civil investigations and provided training for corporate, law enforcement, and military personnel.\u00a0 He left DI in 2018 and became a full-time educator at a local community college and an adjunct instructor in a university graduate program.\u00a0\u00a0 With personal schooling completed, Doug looks forward to more free time reserved for family, kayaking and some travel.<\/p>\n