Considered by his friends to be a Renaissance man, Charles’ accomplishments include: inventor, entrepreneur, decorated police officer, teacher, seasoned helicopter pilot (1500 hrs. pilot-in-command), Sergeant in the Infantry, photographer, musician, and successful businessman.  Charles is best known and widely regarded as the “Father” of forensic voice stress analysis.  He is the founder of NITV Federal Services and became a voice stress analyst in 1974, three years after the introduction of the first voice stress analysis instrument. Charles is also a licensed polygraph examiner. Over the past thirty-four years, Charles developed what is now accepted as the “Gold Standard” for Forensic VSA training, NITV FS Certified Examiners Course.  The course is based on the experience Charles gained from the nearly 14,000 examinations that he conducted during his career. As voice stress companies came and went over the years, Charles led NITV FS to become what is now the undisputed leader in the field of Forensic Voice Stress Analysis.  In 1986 Charles began development of the Computer Voice Stress Analyzer and debuted it to the law enforcement community in 1988. The CVSA was an immediate success and has since become the only VSA instrument widely accepted in the law enforcement community with nearly 1,900 agencies, including the Atlanta P.D., Nashville P.D., California Highway Patrol, and the US military, utilizing the system. NITV FS recently introduced the CVSA II, (watch the CVSA movie here) which contains a revolutionary, patented automatic scoring algorithm developed by Charles.  Other than the original inventor, Charles is the only person to be awarded a patent for Forensic Voice Stress Analysis (#7,321,855).  Charles was recently awarded a second patent (#7,571,101) from the US Patent Office.  Although he retired as CEO of NITV FS in 2006, Charles remains involved with the NITV FS Board of Directors and the National Association of Certified Voice Stress Analysts to promote the profession of Computer Voice Stress Analysis in law enforcement and the military.