Target Audience:

This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of medical and behavioral health professionals involved in the care of victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.

Program Overview:

Presenter(s):

Ryan has been a CSI and Forensic Specialist for 15+ years, 9 of those as a Supervisor. He is an active instructor in a wide range of forensic topics, including providing photography instruction for nearly 14 years to members of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) community. He has specialties in CSI and crime scene reconstruction, bloodstain pattern analysis, shooting incident reconstruction, photography, and forensic mapping. He is a member of the NIST OSAC Sub-Committee on Crime Scene Investigation where with his colleagues, he is fighting for sound forensic science, one meeting at a time.

Ryan's current position is the public safety and forensic accounts manager for the Middle States for LeIca Geosystems, a scene documentation solutions provider (3-D laser scanning, surveying, aerial documentation, mobile mapping, etc). As a forensic laser scanner, he has scanned 100+ scenes including over 60 crime scenes, ranging from few set-ups, through a 52-set-up scanning project of his current laboratory facility.

His last position was as an active member of the Johnson County KS Crime Laboratory management team, where he coordinated complex, multi-scene, multi-day responses for forensic services and welcomed the unknown challenges that each scene provided. He managed the laboratory's field staff, including 7 full-time Crime Scene Investigators, as well as nearly 25 transient staff who responded from other disciplines of our lab, as needed.

He has testified over 70 times regarding crime scene response in state courts (Jackson, MO; Clay, MO; Johnson, KS; Franklin, KS) as well in Federal Court, MO-Western District. Additionally, he serves as an adjunct professor at Missouri Western State University and Emporia State University.