Jason Harner
| Forensic Chemist |
EDUCATION
· Michigan State University – Bachelor of Science in Chemistry,
May 2007
WORK EXPERIENCE
· Speckin Forensic Laboratories Okemos, MI
Forensic Chemist May 2007 – present
Duties include performing various analyses on
casework including chemical
ink analysis and ink dating procedures as well
as conducting VSC-2000
and ESDA examinations on questioned documents.
Primarily involved in
the analysis of documents for alterations, additions, and rewritings.
· Speckin Forensic Laboratories Okemos, MI
Intern September 2005 – May 2007
RELATED SKILLS
· Trained in the chemical analysis of ink including:
- ink identification of manufacturer and formulation
to determine first date
of production.
- ink comparisons for similarities or differences
in formulation or batch.
- examination of ink for detection of fluorescent
date tags.
· Skilled in the utilization of thin layer chromatography and densitometry
for the
relative ink age analysis using rate of extraction,
percent extraction, and the
accelerated aging sample preparation technique.
· Proficient in ink identifications and comparisons to a known
library of
thousands of inks.
· Processed over 1000 documents for impressed writings on the ESDA
instrument
· Performed VSC-2000 examinations of thousands of different inks
and
documents in actual case work
TRAINED IN USING THE
FOLLOWING INSTRUMENTS
· Gas chromatography / Mass spectrometer
· Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer
· VSC-2000
· Scanning Video Densitometer
· ESDA
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