David Stenhouse | dstenhouse@forensics.com

David Stenhouse is Vice President/Director of Operations of Computer Forensics Inc.™ (CFI). CFI, founded in 1994, is a pioneer in the science of computer forensics and the practice of electronic discovery. CFI combines the expertise of computer, litigation, and records management specialists to locate, collect, and analyze evidence found on backup tapes, hard drives, servers, and email systems. CFI’s expert services include discovery consulting, cost containment, expert testimony, and e-risk management services, with extensive expertise in data preservation, 30(b)(6) deposition, and discovery motion assistance.

Mr. Stenhouse is responsible for the management of CFI’s forensic specialists, technicians, and case managers. Representative computer forensics cases include product liability, trade secret theft, employment law, contractual disputes, electronic document authentication, bankruptcy, insurance claim disputes, intellectual property, and shareholder class action and antitrust litigation matters.

Mr. Stenhouse is a former Special Agent in the United States Secret Service. From 1998 to 2000, he was assigned to the Electronic Crimes Special Agent Program (ECSAP) where he conducted investigations involving the use of electronic data in crimes. In his experience as a Special Agent, Mr. Stenhouse executed federal search warrants to perform seizures of numerous computer systems and completed in excess of 80 individual forensic examinations of the contents of those systems. His investigations included counterfeiting of U.S. currency, credit card fraud, organized crime, computer crimes, rape, and arson. Mr. Stenhouse investigated protective intelligence issues for the President of the United States, Vice President, and their respective families. He also conducted security advances for foreign and domestic Heads of State and was routinely assigned as a shift agent, providing round-the-clock protection to U.S. Secret Service protectees in the United States, Europe, Canada, the South Pacific, and the Middle East.

Prior to his employment with the U.S. Secret Service, Mr. Stenhouse served as a State Trooper with the Washington State Patrol, serving as a line consultant in the implementation of the Washington State Patrol’s Mobile Computer Network (MCN), where line troopers were enabled to perform checks through the use of a laptop computer installed in patrol vehicles. He also conducted investigations in over 600 vehicle collisions, including fatal and hit-and-run investigations. His arrests included crimes of narcotics possession, DUI, and first-degree assault.

Mr. Stenhouse has extensive experience in the criminal and civil court process and evidentiary chain-of-custody issues. He has testified in State and Federal court in numerous criminal and civil cases, and has testified in Federal court as an expert witness in computer-generated evidence. His interviewing and interrogation training from John E. Reid & Associates provided the foundation for his extensive experience in the interviewing and interrogation of suspects in criminal cases and protective intelligence issues.