Audio Tape Video Tape Forensic Analyst Expert Witness
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Expert Witness No.1226
California
Special Expertise
Determine if a tape has been altered
Enhance sound and video
Evaluate damaged tapes and restore them
Make water damaged tapes playable again
Professional History
Tape engineer and tape recorder design engineer at Ampex Corp for 32 years (Ampex developed tape recording)
Technical Advisor for the Nixon White House (Watergate) Tape Project
Expert witness for many cases regarding altered audio and video recordings
Advisor to FBI, Library of Congress, U.S. National Archive and several other organizations
Consultant for NASA to determine problem with Jupiter Galileo probe tape recorder
Chaired two International Conferences on tape problems--at the U.S. National Archive and in Brazil
Presented papers at numerous international conferences
Presented seminars at UCLA, Canadian Maritime Provinces, Southeast Asia, U.C. San Diego, and the Jeffrey Selznick Film School
Invented Instant Replay
Invented In-Flight video--now common on commercial flights
Professional Affiliations
Member, Special Library of Congress Task Force on Video and TV Heritage
Member, Ford Foundation Advisory Committee for preserving historical material in tropical countries
Tape Standards Committee & Speaker, Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE)
Tape Standards Committee & Speaker, Audio Engineering Society (AES)
Preservation Committee Chairman & Speaker, Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA)
Preservation Committee & Speaker, International Federation of Television Archives (FIAT)
Tape Standards Commission, American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
Tape Standards Commission, International Standards Organization (ISO)
Education
B.S.E.E., University of California at Berkeley
Graduate work at California State University at San Jose
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