Forensic Document Examiner, Forensic Consultant, Handwriting Expert

Thomas W. Vastrick is a forensic document examiner in Orlando and Tallahassee, Florida with 47 years of experience working in both a government law enforcement crime laboratory and in private practice. He is board-certified through technical testing by the American Board of Forensic Document Examiners, is a Life Member and current President of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners, a Retired Fellow of the Questioned Document Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and a member of the Southeastern Association of Forensic Document Examiners.

Forensic document examiners are sometimes called handwriting experts but there is more to the discipline than that.  Forensic Document Examination is a specialty field of the forensic sciences dealing with examinations involving areas such as signatures, handwriting, hand printing, alterations, counterfeiting, anonymous letters, indented writings, and ink & paper analyses.  Whether you are looking for a Florida handwriting expert, Florida forensic document examiner, or a forensic document examiner anywhere in the United States, Canada, Central America, South America, The Caribbean, or overseas, Thomas W Vastrick is here for you.  Thomas W Vastrick has successfully completed two years (over 4,000 hrs.) of full-time, in-residence training with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service Crime Laboratory in Washington, DC. He has been court qualified hundreds of times in numerous states and the Caribbean. Mr. Vastrick has previously served on the board of directors of the American Board of Forensic Document Examiners and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.  He is currently Secretary of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners.  Thomas Vastrick has taught classes in forensic document examination at universities along with field training for law enforcement and private sector security entities.  Mr. Vastrick has written numerous research articles published in the United States and overseas.  One research study published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences was the culmination of years of research through a grant from the National Institute of Justice, Department of Justice, and administered through the National Center for Forensic Sciences at the University of Central Florida.  He has conducted workshops as continuing education for practicing forensic document examiners and has had published numerous papers & books on the forensic field in the United States and Europe.  Mr. Vastrick has written one book, Forensic Document Examination Techniques, and has been a contributing author to four other textbooks.  Thomas W Vastrick’s extensive professional resume can be found at the “Curriculum Vitae” icon on the Menu Bar on the right.

Thomas W Vastrick conducts a wide range of examinations for criminal, civil and administrative matters to include:

• Signatures
• Handwriting
• Hand Printing
• Alterations to documents
• Anonymous letter examinations
• Counterfeit document examinations
• Indented writing examinations
• Typewriter and Printer examinations
• Checkwriters, staple holes, staplers
• Non-destructive ink and paper analyses
• Take handwriting specimens from subjects

To learn more about these examinations be sure to click on the “Forensic Services” icon on the Menu Bar on the right.