Sarah Gwyn
Criminalist I
San Jose,CA
Summary
Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure Criminalistics Technician position. Ready to help team achieve company goals.
Qualified to collect trace evidence with skills in documentation and recording. Dedicated to optimal organization and solution-oriented problem-solving.
To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Criminalist
Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office
San Jose, CA
04.2020 - Current
- Criminalist I, LPE
- Receives/reviews automated or hard copies of fingerprints
- Compares fingerprint cards and demographic information for identification purposes
- Evaluates, prepares, and encodes latent crime scene fingerprints/palm prints for automated print analysis using other fingerprint analyzing equipment
- Photographically enlarges prints enabling systematic tracing of ridge structures and points of minutiae
- Photographically reduces prints to one-to-one scale
- Establishes potential identification of individuals from computer generated list of potential candidates
- Identify decedents submitted by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner’s Office
- Operates various computer terminals to collect, maintain and retrieve offender records from several databases.
Reserve Deputy
Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office
08.2020 - Current
- Assessed and analyzed data to clarify course of criminal prosecution.
- Monitored crowded public areas and events to mitigate risk and promote safety.
- Drafted reports detailing incidents and safety violations.
- Provided public safety assistance at community events to maintain safe and secure environments.
- Patrolled designated areas in patrol vehicle and on foot to identify security and safety issues.
- Reduced risk by accurately monitoring and evaluating criminal prosecutorial data while managing crime scenes.
- Interviewed criminal targets and witnesses to uncover facts for verification and authentication.
- Maintained structure and security during court proceedings.
Enforcement Deputy
Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office
03.2019 - 03.2020
Enforcement Recruit
Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office
San Jose, CA
07.2018 - 03.2019
Education
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry
George Fox University
Newberg, OR 08.2012 - 04.2016
Basic POST Police - Law Enforcement
Santa Clara County Justice Training Center
Morgan Hill, CA 07.2018 - 03.2019
Skills
Fingerprint collection
Affiliations
- International Association for Identification (IAI) – Parent Body 04/2020-Present - Member# 35562
- California State Division of the IAI (CSDIAI)
- California Friction Ridge Study Group
Certification
Crime Scene Investigation: Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (Santa Clara County DA’s Crime Lab 4 hours)
Timeline
Crime Scene Investigation: Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (Santa Clara County DA’s Crime Lab 4 hours)
01-2022
Crime Scene Investigation: Bones & Teeth (Santa Clara County DA’s Crime Lab 4 hours)
09-2021
Crime Scene Investigation: Trace Evidence (Santa Clara County DA’s Crime Lab 4 hours)
07-2021
Intermediate Digital Processing of Forensic Evidentiary Photography (Foray – David Witzki, 24 hours)
05-2021
California State Division IAI Annual Education Seminar Virtual Conference (Miscellaneous Lectures 40 hours)
04-2021
Reserve Deputy
Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office
08.2020 - Current
Criminalist
Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office
04.2020 - Current
Enforcement Deputy
Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office
03.2019 - 03.2020
Basic POST Police - Law Enforcement
Santa Clara County Justice Training Center
07.2018 - 03.2019
Enforcement Recruit
Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office
07.2018 - 03.2019
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry
George Fox University
08.2012 - 04.2016
Fingerprint Identification: FBI Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) Squad” 04/2021
Bryan T. Johnson (FBI), CFRSG Webinar 1 hour
Assisted in Photographing Fingerprints Instruction at SCPD 03/2021
Santa Clara Police Department, Santa Clara CA 6 hours
The Final Step: Crime Scene Testimony 03/2021
Palm Prints Searching Smart 2/2021
RS&A, Ron Smith, Virtual 40 hours
Assisted in Fingerprint Instruction for cadets at Academy 01/2021
Santa Clara County Sheriffs, San Jose CA 3 hours
Miscellaneous Lectures 09/2020
Chesapeake Bay Division IAI Virtual Conference 16 hours
IDEMIA Public Security Virtual Users’ Conference 8 hours
Advanced Fingerprint Distortion 06/2020
Alice White Evolve Forensics, Virtual 4 hours
Basic Fingerprint Distortion 06/2020
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