Biography Michele Triplett is the Forensic Operation Manager/Quality Manager for King County, WA. She is a Certified Latent Print Examiner and holds a BS in Mathematics and Statistical Analysis. She has been employed in the friction ridge identification discipline since 1991 and is actively involved with several organizations, committees, and educational events. She currently serves as the Director of the IAI’s Certification Programs and as the secretary for the ASB’s Friction Ridge Consensus Body. Ms. Triplett teaches classes on scientific principles, has developed a method for measuring the complexity of pattern evidence comparisons, and has authored the ‘Fingerprint Dictionary’.