User:QDE-can

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Name: Brent

AKA Brent Ostrum, RB Ostrum or QDE-can (my sig has varied over time but they are all 'me')
My personal/professional website has lots of info about my work, who I am, etc.

Education:
- Honours Bachelor of Arts degree with Highest Honours (summa cum laude ) in Psychology, Carleton University, class of 1981
- Followed by a couple of years in the Master of Arts program (sadly, incomplete)
- Completed a Certificate of Advanced Studies in "Statistics and Evaluation of Forensic Evidence" from l'Université de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland), Sept 2011. This was a very interesting course delivered online over a period of 18 months. Wonderful instructors and participants.
Professional forensic document examiner
- Now work for the Canada Border Services Agency having joined their laboratory in 2001 after 16 years with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Regina, Saskatchewan. So I've been a employee of the Canadian Federal government since: December 2, 1985; 39 years ago (1985年12月02日).
  - NOTE: Any and all wiki contributions are my personal work and, as such, represent my beliefs, ideas, theories or whatever, unless expressly stated otherwise. In general, my comments do not represent the rules, policies, procedures, regulations, beliefs or anything else relating to any past or present employer, professional association, society or board to which I belong.
- Serving as Chairman of the Document Section in the Canadian Society of Forensic Science.
- Professional certification obtained from the American Board of Forensic Document Examiners, Inc. (note: ABFDE certified examiners are referred to as 'Diplomates' of the organization).
- Former member of the Executive Council for Skill-Task Testing Training and Assessment (St2ar) - Archived.
- Active or former member of various technical groups including ASTM International (Subcommittee E30.02), the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) and the International Graphonomics Society.
Very interested in digital imaging, image processing, statistics, statistical inference and evidence evaluation (particularly with respect to scientific evidence using a Bayesian approach to interpretation as it pertains, ultimately, to expert testimony in a court of law, although it is really a likelihood-ist approach)
Interested in Chito-ryu karate-do for >35 years (and counting). However, no longer practising.
Work in Ottawa, Ontario but don't live there
Have a lot of interests but haven't had much time to contribute to wikipedia
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