Our Forensic Team is led by Jim Stafford with 47 years of engineering experience.

Jim Stafford, ACI, ACE

For over 49 years, Jim has developed the skills and experience in engineering to become the leading force behind Eclipse Recording Studios www.eclipserecording.com. In 2005, he took his passion for media engineering and production, where he’s garnered the deep understanding of how audio and video technologies function in a production environment, to start a new division within the business, called Eclipse Forensics www.eclipseforensics.com.

Specializing in all forms of audio, video, digital, and mobile device forensics, Jim began this work at the request of Florida’s 7th Judicial Circuit’s Homicide Investigation Unit with the Justin Barber case in 2005. That case and Jim’s efforts, were presented nationally on network and cable television.  In 2020, the Florida Supreme Court cited his work in support of a decision they rendered.

Jim, a graduate of George Mason University, has received numerous certifications in the forensic services Eclipse Forensics offers. He regularly participates in ongoing training to stay abreast of the constantly evolving world of forensics.

Since 2005, Eclipse has worked on hundreds of cases for numerous law enforcement jurisdictions, private attorneys and individuals. And with the team Jim has assembled at Eclipse Forensics, we are poised and ready to assist in the development and analysis of audio forensics, video forensics, data forensics and forensics on mobile devices to serve your needs.

Stephen Lynch

40 years of US Government service specializing in communications and intelligence disciplines:

4 years active duty US Navy as a communications specialist for strategic ship to shore global communications networks, transmitter and receiver sites, and data centers.

22 year career in US Army trained in several intelligence specialties to include Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Tactical and Strategic Intelligence.

14 years as a Department of Defense senior intelligence official, operations officer and certified Level 1 Central Intelligence Agency instructor with a strong Counterintelligence background. Service included multiple tours with CIA, FBI, DEA, and DOD agencies all over the world. Career highlights: one year international exchange in Republic of China: one tour as Assistant Army Attache, Venezuela and Military Attache, Guyana;

4 years as Tactical SIGINT Officer in Germany; 8 Years of varied intelligence support to DEA counternarcotics operations in Colombia, Bolivia, Panama, and USA; 3 years as CIA Instructor at the farm; one tour as Defense Intelligence Agency, Operations Branch Chief, at Headquarters Special Operations Command (SOCOM), Tampa, Florida, and one tour working Counter-proliferation and Counterintelligence operations embedded as a CIA Operations Officer working for FBI Albuquerque, NM.

Education:
Certificate, Communications “A” school, Bainbridge, MD
BA, English (Linguistics), California State University, Chico, CA Certificate, Signals Intelligence Course, Fort Huachuca, AZ
MS, Strategic Intelligence, Joint Military Intelligence College, Washington DC
Certificate, Military Attache Training Course, Washington DC
Certificate, HUMINT Operations Officer Course, Washington DC
Certificate, Level 1 Instructor Certification, CIA

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