Tom Mauriello is an educator, author, consultant, and public speaker. He retired from federal service in 2012, after 30 years of service 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 for the Associate Directorate for Security and Counterintelligence. He is a former police officer and criminal investigator.

His academic position held concurrently throughout his professional career 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 most recently wrote this e-textbook; and also the legal treatise, Criminal Investigation Handbook – Strategy, Law and Science; and The Dollhouse Murders, illustrating crime scene dioramas used to study the crime scene investigation (CSI) process.

An accomplished author, who most recently wrote this etextbook; and also the legal treatise, Criminal Investigation Handbook - Strategy, Law and Science; and The Dollhouse Murders, illustrating crime scene dioramas used to study the crime scene investigation (CSI) process.

A sought after forensic sciences consultant, TOMM is regularly interviewed for newspaper, television, and radio news media. He has appeared on ABC World News Tonight and CBS Sunday Morning News and Fox and MSNBC cable news shows. He has been featured 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 presently is host of the webcast show, “ForensicWeek.com,” broadcast and archived on www.ForensicWeek.com.

His vast public speaking experience includes the presentation of counterintelligence awareness briefings and forensic science lectures at numerous universities and law schools; as well as his motivational seminar on public speaking communications, 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.; American Academy of Forensic Sciences (Fellow); active member of the International Association for Identification, Maryland Polygraph Association, and Lifetime Member of the Operations Security (OPSEC) Professionals Society;  FAA Certified Remote Pilot for small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS); and member of Maryland’s Center for Forensic Excellence Advisory Committee.

On April 2011, he formed a 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.