Thomas P Mauriello

Thomas P. Mauriello is an educator, author, consultant, and public speaker. He retired from federal service in 2012 after 30 years with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). His assignments with DoD included Special Agent; Chief of Police; Senior Polygraph Examiner; Director, Occupational Health, Environmental and Safety Services; Director, Interagency OPSEC Support Staff (IOSS); Deputy Director for Security Education, Training and Awareness; Congressional Staff Investigator for the U.S. Senate...See more

Thomas P. Mauriello is an educator, author, consultant, and public speaker. He retired from federal service in 2012 after 30 years with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). His assignments with DoD included Special Agent; Chief of Police; Senior Polygraph Examiner; Director, Occupational Health, Environmental and Safety Services; Director, Interagency OPSEC Support Staff (IOSS); Deputy Director for Security Education, Training and Awareness; Congressional Staff Investigator for the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations; and Chief of Polygraph. He is a former police officer and criminal investigator. He is the founder and CEO of the forensic consultant company, ForensIQ, Inc. His company provides forensic investigation services, criminal case & evidence assessments; security & counterintelligence services; education, training, awareness, and motivational public speaking presentations; and news media and film and TV production consultation. His academic position as Senior Lecturer has been held concurrently throughout his professional career. It includes teaching criminal investigation and forensic sciences courses, while managing the Crime Laboratory for the University of Maryland at College Park, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He is an accomplished author, who besides writing this book, is the author of the legal treatise, Criminal Investigation Handbook - Strategy, Law and Science, The Dollhouse Murders, illustrating crime scene dioramas used to study the crime scene investigation (CSI) process, and the e-textbook, Introduction to Criminalistics-From Crime Scene to Court Room. He is the creator of the ForensIQ C.S.I. Checklist (TM) App, which is the first and currently the only mobile App of its kind that has been created to assist law enforcement and criminal investigation professionals while conducting crime scene investigations. A sought after forensic sciences consultant; he is regularly interviewed by newspaper, television, and radio news media. He has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, CBS Sunday Morning News, and Fox and MSNBC cable news shows. He has been featured as a forensic consultant on television documentaries, including The Discovery Channel's Lizzie Borden Had An Ax, and several episodes in Investigation Discovery (ID) Channel's series, Forensics: You Decide and Reasonable Doubt. He is the creator and host of the TV webcast ForensicWeek.com Show, broadcast and archived on ... His vast public speaking experience includes 42 years as a university professor, the presentation of hundreds of counterintelligence awareness briefings and forensic science lectures at numerous universities and law schools, as well as presenting his motivational seminar on public speaking communications, entitled, Motivation through Communication. He is a recipient of the U.S. Department of Defense, Exceptional Civilian Service; holds the degree of master of forensic sciences from The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; an American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) Fellow; active member of the International Association for Identification (IAI), member of the Maryland Polygraph Association, Lifetime Member of the Operations Security (OPSEC) Professionals Society; and member of Maryland's Center for Forensic Excellence Advisory Committee. See less