John Mellon is the president of Key Computer Services and author of the computer-forensic-examination course. He is a retired US Customs Senior Special Agent with 28 years of investigative experience and more than 17 years of experience with computers. He is an IACIS certified forensic-computer examiner. Mr. Mellon had initial experience with the CP-M operating system in 1986. He had initial computer forensic training in 1991 by the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (IACIS). He has been an active member of IACIS and is a member of the Board of Directors.
He is the past chairman of the IACIS DOS Seizure Certification Committee and the past chairman of the IACIS DOS/Windows Processing Certification Committee. He is the past chairman of the Certification Committee and the past Chairman of the IACIS Board of Directors.
Mr. Mellon has been a lead instructor at IACIS training conferences and has been involved in the training of hundreds of law-enforcement officers world-wide in computer forensics since 1994.
He has taught numerous highly technical subjects including DOS and Windows 95/98 file systems, architecture and the boot process, DOS and Windows 95/98 examination techniques and procedures, recovery of deleted files, recovery of Windows long file names, and date and time stamp alterations. He also has taught recovering formatted disks, the process and problems in making forensic copies of media, file-type identification and the use of file-viewing applications during examinations, the theory of archived files and compressed disks, examining archived and compressed disks and files, data format conversion, basic Novell theory and the methods for seizing and examining Novell networks, examination of Windows swap and related files and the new IACIS Examination Standards and Forensic Code of Ethics.
He developed and implemented the IACIS Forensic Examination Standards, the IACIS Code of Ethics, the advanced Windows Processing Certification, the past IACIS Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE) problems containing numerous technical issues. These problems must be completed to attain the CFCE certification from IACIS. He continues to instruct civilians and law-enforcement officers world-wide in computer forensic examinations.
Mr. Mellon was the first computer forensic examiner for US Customs in Miami, Florida. In that position, he set up the forensic-examination program in Miami in 1991 and forensically examined many computers between 1991 and 1993.
He started Key Computer Service in 1993 and has continued to forensically examine computers for US Customs, DEA, local police agencies, attorneys, private companies and individuals.
He has been cited as a computer-forensic expert witness in courts and in affidavits in US District Court, Miami, Florida, and in Atlanta, Georgia.
William J. Long has been in law enforcement since 1980 and is working for a major state agency. In addition to his duties as Chief Agent, he is also a Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (IACIS) and works investigations involving all aspects of computers and computer crime. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Forensics within the Criminal Justice Department of Redlands College in El Reno, Oklahoma, and instructs Computer Forensics on line with the Forensics Training Program of the Key Computer Company, Key Largo, Florida.
Mr. Long holds an Advanced Law Enforcement Certificate from the Oklahoma Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training (CLEET) as well as a DOS Seizure Certificate (DSC), DOS Processing Certificate (DPC) and Certified Computer Forensic Examiner (CFCE) Certification from the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (IACIS) and a BSEE from Fairleigh Dickenson University in New Jersey.
Wayne Marney, CFCE (IACIS), has been a full-time forensic computer examiner since 1995 for a major law-enforcement agency's computer-crimes unit. He has completed more than 375 forensic exams on stand-alone and networked computer systems.
Mr. Marney has received forensic computer training from IACIS, New Technologies, Inc., ASRDATA, LLC., and Macintosh data recovery from Symantec, Inc. He has testified at the state level in both civil and criminal cases as an expert witness on computer forensics in Oregon and New York. He as provided forensic computer civil litigation support in Washington, California, Arkansas, Texas, New York, Iowa and Oklahoma. As a past instructor and coach, as well as a member of the Board of Directors for IACIS, Research and Development, Mr. Marney has been a leader in advancing forensic computer methodology.
Mr. Marney has been a guest speaker at University of Central Florida and Oregon State University computer science schools. His areas of expertise include: Win 9x, NT 4.0/Windows 2000, and Macintosh operating systems.
David Riggs is a Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE) from the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (IACIS). Mr. Riggs retired from federal law-enforcement officer after a long and varied career. He has served in the military police and a large-city police department (Washington, D.C.) as a homicide detective. He was an ATF agent
and a Special Agent in Charge of Criminal Investigations with the Environmental Protection Agency, which was his position upon retirement.
Mr. Riggs is an assembly-language computer programmer and software developer, as well as the builder of the forensic computer systems offered for sale on our web site. In fact, he has written several of the forensic utilities used by both IACIS and our training program. He served as a technical editor of our forensic course materials and is currently working on a new module dealing with the NTFS file system.
Mr. Riggs is a coach/instructor with the IACIS CFCE program and has served as an instructor at the IACIS training conferences. He is very knowledgeable about DOS/Windows internals, FAT and NTFS file systems, and computer hardware. He has authored articles for the IACIS newsletter dealing with operating system internals.
William D. Taylor is a Computer Investigative Specialist/ Special Agent with a federal law-enforcement agency in Nashville, Tennessee. He has served as a full-time forensic computer examiner since 1994. Mr. Taylor is a Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists), a Certified Fraud Examiner, (Association of Certified Fraud Examiners), and holds an Associate Degree in Forensic Computer Science. In addition, he holds both Baccalaureate and Masters Degrees in Criminal Justice and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy. Mr. Taylor has over 24 years of investigative law-enforcement experience at the local, state, and federal levels. He served on the IACIS Board of Directors for six years-as Vice-President for one year, and as President, CEO for nearly three years.
Phil Harrold was employed by the Odessa, Texas, Police Department from 1979-1988. His assignments included Patrol, Narcotics and Crimes Against Property. Mr. Harrold was employed from 1989-2000 by the Monroe County, Florida, Sheriff's Office. His assignments included Patrol, General Investigations, Homicide, and he was also a member of the Bomb Squad.
Mr. Harrold has been employed from 2000 to the present by the State Attorney's Office, 16th Judicial Circuit, State of Florida, as an Investigator. In this capacity, he conducts in-depth, long-term investigations of Organized Schemes to Defraud, large-scale thefts, and RICO offenses. He also conducts investigations of computer crimes involving sales-tax fraud, child pornography and trade-secret theft. He also performs forensic examinations of all types of electronic media.
Forensic Computer Examiner
GES 305 -- 150 hours
Instructor Bio
John Mellon is the president of Key Computer Services and author of the computer-forensic-examination course. He is a retired US Customs Senior Special Agent with 28 years of investigative experience and more than 17 years of experience with computers. He is an IACIS certified forensic-computer examiner. Mr. Mellon had initial experience with the CP-M operating system in 1986. He had initial computer forensic training in 1991 by the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (IACIS). He has been an active member of IACIS and is a member of the Board of Directors.
He is the past chairman of the IACIS DOS Seizure Certification Committee and the past chairman of the IACIS DOS/Windows Processing Certification Committee. He is the past chairman of the Certification Committee and the past Chairman of the IACIS Board of Directors.
Mr. Mellon has been a lead instructor at IACIS training conferences and has been involved in the training of hundreds of law-enforcement officers world-wide in computer forensics since 1994.
He has taught numerous highly technical subjects including DOS and Windows 95/98 file systems, architecture and the boot process, DOS and Windows 95/98 examination techniques and procedures, recovery of deleted files, recovery of Windows long file names, and date and time stamp alterations. He also has taught recovering formatted disks, the process and problems in making forensic copies of media, file-type identification and the use of file-viewing applications during examinations, the theory of archived files and compressed disks, examining archived and compressed disks and files, data format conversion, basic Novell theory and the methods for seizing and examining Novell networks, examination of Windows swap and related files and the new IACIS Examination Standards and Forensic Code of Ethics.
He developed and implemented the IACIS Forensic Examination Standards, the IACIS Code of Ethics, the advanced Windows Processing Certification, the past IACIS Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE) problems containing numerous technical issues. These problems must be completed to attain the CFCE certification from IACIS. He continues to instruct civilians and law-enforcement officers world-wide in computer forensic examinations.
Mr. Mellon was the first computer forensic examiner for US Customs in Miami, Florida. In that position, he set up the forensic-examination program in Miami in 1991 and forensically examined many computers between 1991 and 1993.
He started Key Computer Service in 1993 and has continued to forensically examine computers for US Customs, DEA, local police agencies, attorneys, private companies and individuals.
He has been cited as a computer-forensic expert witness in courts and in affidavits in US District Court, Miami, Florida, and in Atlanta, Georgia.
William J. Long has been in law enforcement since 1980 and is working for a major state agency. In addition to his duties as Chief Agent, he is also a Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (IACIS) and works investigations involving all aspects of computers and computer crime. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Forensics within the Criminal Justice Department of Redlands College in El Reno, Oklahoma, and instructs Computer Forensics on line with the Forensics Training Program of the Key Computer Company, Key Largo, Florida.
Mr. Long holds an Advanced Law Enforcement Certificate from the Oklahoma Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training (CLEET) as well as a DOS Seizure Certificate (DSC), DOS Processing Certificate (DPC) and Certified Computer Forensic Examiner (CFCE) Certification from the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (IACIS) and a BSEE from Fairleigh Dickenson University in New Jersey.
Wayne Marney, CFCE (IACIS), has been a full-time forensic computer examiner since 1995 for a major law-enforcement agency's computer-crimes unit. He has completed more than 375 forensic exams on stand-alone and networked computer systems.
Mr. Marney has received forensic computer training from IACIS, New Technologies, Inc., ASRDATA, LLC., and Macintosh data recovery from Symantec, Inc. He has testified at the state level in both civil and criminal cases as an expert witness on computer forensics in Oregon and New York. He as provided forensic computer civil litigation support in Washington, California, Arkansas, Texas, New York, Iowa and Oklahoma. As a past instructor and coach, as well as a member of the Board of Directors for IACIS, Research and Development, Mr. Marney has been a leader in advancing forensic computer methodology.
Mr. Marney has been a guest speaker at University of Central Florida and Oregon State University computer science schools. His areas of expertise include: Win 9x, NT 4.0/Windows 2000, and Macintosh operating systems.
David Riggs is a Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE) from the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (IACIS). Mr. Riggs retired from federal law-enforcement officer after a long and varied career. He has served in the military police and a large-city police department (Washington, D.C.) as a homicide detective. He was an ATF agent
and a Special Agent in Charge of Criminal Investigations with the Environmental Protection Agency, which was his position upon retirement.
Mr. Riggs is an assembly-language computer programmer and software developer, as well as the builder of the forensic computer systems offered for sale on our web site. In fact, he has written several of the forensic utilities used by both IACIS and our training program. He served as a technical editor of our forensic course materials and is currently working on a new module dealing with the NTFS file system.
Mr. Riggs is a coach/instructor with the IACIS CFCE program and has served as an instructor at the IACIS training conferences. He is very knowledgeable about DOS/Windows internals, FAT and NTFS file systems, and computer hardware. He has authored articles for the IACIS newsletter dealing with operating system internals.
William D. Taylor is a Computer Investigative Specialist/ Special Agent with a federal law-enforcement agency in Nashville, Tennessee. He has served as a full-time forensic computer examiner since 1994. Mr. Taylor is a Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists), a Certified Fraud Examiner, (Association of Certified Fraud Examiners), and holds an Associate Degree in Forensic Computer Science. In addition, he holds both Baccalaureate and Masters Degrees in Criminal Justice and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy. Mr. Taylor has over 24 years of investigative law-enforcement experience at the local, state, and federal levels. He served on the IACIS Board of Directors for six years-as Vice-President for one year, and as President, CEO for nearly three years.
Phil Harrold was employed by the Odessa, Texas, Police Department from 1979-1988. His assignments included Patrol, Narcotics and Crimes Against Property. Mr. Harrold was employed from 1989-2000 by the Monroe County, Florida, Sheriff's Office. His assignments included Patrol, General Investigations, Homicide, and he was also a member of the Bomb Squad.
Mr. Harrold has been employed from 2000 to the present by the State Attorney's Office, 16th Judicial Circuit, State of Florida, as an Investigator. In this capacity, he conducts in-depth, long-term investigations of Organized Schemes to Defraud, large-scale thefts, and RICO offenses. He also conducts investigations of computer crimes involving sales-tax fraud, child pornography and trade-secret theft. He also performs forensic examinations of all types of electronic media.
