Chad M.S. Steel

Chad Steel has performed hundreds of digital forensics examinations. He has been involved with every aspect of child exploitation investigations from interviewing and interrogating subjects to performing digital forensics analyses of devices ranging from cell phones to servers. As an adjunct faculty member, he developed and taught the Computer Forensics graduate course in Penn State's engineering program and has instructed federal and local law enforcement, commercial clients, and graduate students in conducting child pornography investigations. His experience includes serving as head of IT investigations for a Global 100 corporation and as managing director of the Systems Integration and Security practice at Qwest Communications. He is currently an adjunct professor at George Mason University in Virginia.