
ACFE, DMS, Forensic Investigator at American Mortgage Law Group
San Francisco Bay Area

ACFE, DMS, Forensic Investigator at American Mortgage Law Group
San Francisco Bay Area
30 yrs of experience in investigation field with the last 22 spent mainly on mortgage fraud. Spent 5 yrs on Staff, Credit Card and ATM machine frauds for major bank.
Mortgage fraud prevention, detection, investigation and training.
(Law Practice industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
(Financial Services industry)
October 2004 — Present (5 years 2 months)
1/24/09 - This mortgage fraud site has been up and running since Oct 2004 and I am the sole editor/contributor.
It takes many hours per week to maintain and update and occasionally other priorities take me away from editing it. I think it contains more information than other similar sites - but I am biased.
We are are about (on 1/26/09) to change the name and drop the word blog from the title - because of abuse and spam we switched off the comments fields so the site is not a true blog.
(Financial Services industry)
August 2002 — March 2009 (6 years 8 months)
Volunteer role responsible for overseeing our Competitive Soccer program which has 400+ players from a league of 1600 players, including coach recruitment, player development, website development and the general management of 30 teams and hundreds of games.
Lucky enough to work with some great people including Soccer Hall of Famer and US National Team captain and now NYSA Coach Hugo Perez, NYSA DOC, Erik Visser, Head Coach of Division 1 college USF, Joe Hunter, Head Coach at SF State, Tyler Gottschalk U15G State Coach and Asst Coach at USF and many others.
(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)
June 2002 — March 2009 (6 years 10 months)
During my time with TPG I have headed up the claims and policy administration departments before moving on to my new roles within TPG.
(Sports industry)
February 2007 — October 2007 (9 months)
At home games assisted Head Coach Glenn Van Straatum with logistics, incl rosters, referee liaison, identifying game day prize winners, player tickets, organizing ball boys/girls, liaison between team and media center and game day control center
(Financial Services industry)
January 2000 — March 2002 (2 years 3 months)
I was honoured to be asked to give lectures on Mortgage Fraud to Detective Training Classes at the Scottish Police College which trained officers from all the police forces in Scotland.
Unfortunately my move to the US brought an end to the lectures
(Financial Services industry)
January 1999 — March 2002 (3 years 3 months)
In association with FOCUS Training helped in the design, curriculum development and delivery of training courses to Abbey National fraud investigators. The 5 courses were of up to one week in duration and including interview techniques, data analysis and mapping, court skills, report writing etc and generated up to 40 credits towards the Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist (ACFS) designation developed by Portsmouth University and UK Government fraud departments.
Sat on the Portsmouth University ACFS Accreditation Board until moving to US in 2002.
(Financial Services industry)
1989 — 2002 (13 years )
During this time I worked for the Bank in Mortgage Fraud, Staff Investigations, Branch Security, ATM card and machine fraud, Project Management and Fraud Management System Development and gave testimony in numerous court cases on behalf of the bank.
(Financial Services industry)
1989 — 2002 (13 years )
(Government Agency; Law Enforcement industry)
June 1986 — March 1989 (2 years 10 months)
Was seconded to Met Fraud Squad and Serious Fraud Office working mortgage frauds.
(Law Enforcement industry)
March 1979 — June 1986 (7 years 4 months)
Uniformed police officer at Epping, Harlow and Nazeing
(Defense & Space industry)
March 1975 — March 1979 (4 years 1 month)
I worked on testing finished night vision devices for Infantry Rifles and Armoured vehicles and identifying the problems of devices returned because of breakdowns.
These early devices has phosphor screens that could react to the light emitted by a single star. I am sure that they are far more sophisticated now.
Post Graduate Diploma in Management Studies (DMS) 1990 — 1992
My first love is football (soccer) and Leicester City - I have remained a loyal supporter all of my life.
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)
International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators (CFCI)
Guest Speaker / Trainer in mortgage fraud to Scottish Police College.
Member of Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist accreditation board at Portsmouth University.