Chelcey is a Sr. Facial Examination Trainer for the Face Center of Excellence (FaCE) currently employed by Ideal Innovations, Inc. (I³). Chelcey worked previously as a Sr. Biometric Examiner for the Defense Forensic Science Center (DFSC) Biometrics Operations Division (BOD) supporting the tenprint, face, and iris modalities where she assisted in training new hires through the training to competency program. She became an instructor for the Facial Identification Training classes with I³ in 2019.

Chelcey formerly worked for the Delaware State Police collecting fingerprint, mugshot, and palm print images and training law enforcement recruits in classifications of fingerprints and collecting biometrics. She also worked as a Forensic Fingerprint Examiner verifying AFIS examinations through Delaware/Federal databases. Prior to her work in biometrics and forensics, Chelcey earned her Bachelor of Science from Liberty University in Criminal Justice with a concentration in Criminology; minoring in Psychology.

Chelcey is a current member of the International Association for Identification (IAI) and actively participates in the Facial Identification Scientific Working Group (FISWG) One-to-One and Glossary subcommittees, which focus on standards and guidelines for all things related to comparisons of facial images.

University of Iowa graduate, 20 plus year Law Enforcement career, with the University of Iowa Department of Public Safety and the Davenport (IA) Police Department (DPD). Served in the Patrol and Criminal Investigations Divisions before assignment to the Identification Bureau as an International Association for Identification (IAI) Certified Latent Print Examiner/Forensic Artist and acted as the supervisor of the Identification Bureau, Crime Laboratory and Evidence/Property Unit before and retiring from the DPD in 2005.

After a short tour as a Criminalist with the Iowa Department of Public Safety’s Criminal Investigation Laboratory, began a second career with Ideal Innovations (I³), working in Iraq as a forensics Team Lead for the first Combined Explosives Exploitation Cell (CEXC) laboratory located outside Baghdad, as the Laboratory Manager of the first non-IED forensics laboratory that was sponsored by the Naval Criminal Investigation Services (NCIS) in Fallujah and, eventually leadership as the Examination Service manager at Defense Forensic Science Center (DFSC) Biometrics Operations Division (BOD), as a program manager on a number of forensic support contracts for the DoD and assisted with Quality Assurance/Quality Control support at the BOD.

Steven has also served as the Past Chair/current member of the IAI Forensic Art Certification Board, Past Member/Vice President/President and Chair of the IAI Board of Directors and is currently serving as the Chair of the Forensic Science Standards Boards (FSSB) of the Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science and the Chair of the IAI Facial Identification subcommittee as well as a member of the Ideal Innovations Advisory Board.

Gerald (JD) is a Biometric Examiner currently employed by Ideal Innovations Inc. JD received a Bachelors of  Forensic and Investigative Science with a Forensic Examiner track concentration from West Virginia University  in 2016. In November 2018, he was hired to help support the Defense Forensic Science Center (DFSC)  Biometrics Operation Division (BOD) where he compares face, tenprint, and iris modalities.

He supports multiple projects, policy updates, and program testing at the office and provides innovative ideas to  help problem solve various issues.

JD actively participates in the Facial Identification Scientific Working Group (FISWG) One-to-One  subcommittee where he helps create and edit guidelines for standards and procedures surrounding Facial  Examination. He is also a member of the parent body of the International Association for Identification (IAI) in  which he has been certified as a Tenprint Examiner.