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    UA Credentials

    Brief Professional Resume
     
    2023
    • Served as historical documents expert in major segment of Netflix series, King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch, filmed at the Museum of the American Revolution
    • Served as Einstein manuscripts and documents expert and interviewed for Benyamin Cohen's book, The Einstein Effect (Sourcebooks, 2023)
    • Featured speaker on historical documents and relics at Brigandi's Collectors Night 5.0, Brigandi Coins & Collectibles, NYC
    • Appointed director of new UACC (Universal Autograph Collectors Club)
    2022
    • Consulted twice by CNN on air concerning presidential books and relics       
      2021
      • Selected as a featured speaker on questioned documents by NYACT (largest anti-fraud conference)
      • Featured in an article in Business Insider as advisor to Google executive
      • Selected by the family of Walter P. Chrysler to appraise and authenticate items for the Chrysler Museum, Auburn Hills, Michigan
      • Featured contributor to Netflix series Murder Among the Mormons as a handwriting authenticator and consultant
      2020
      • Taped two broadcasted segments of Pawn Stars on important artifacts belonging to Ludwig van Beethoven and Frank Lloyd Wright
      • Selected by Jack Kerouac heirs to appraise, authenticate and market the balance of his estate
      • Selected by the Forbes family to sell balance of Forbes Manuscript Collection
      2019
      • Selected by Doris Kearns Goodwin to evaluate the papers of her late husband, Richard Goodwin
      • Contracted by Ralph Lauren to curate a nationwide exhibit of authentic presidential relics in their stores for a related book launch
      • Appraiser for multiple high-value donations to Kenneth Rendell’s Museum of World War II, recently acquired by Ronald Lauder

      2018

      • Sole appraiser and authenticator for the Patton Family Archives, a multi-million dollar archive donated to General Patton’s hometown of Hamilton, Massachusetts
      • A lead witness for the State vs. Doraine Reed, the longest-running criminal case on the Connecticut docket. Testimony lead to the conviction of a forger
      • Twice used as expert by the New York Times in separate cases regarding authenticity and value of presidential artifacts and manuscripts (George Washington and John F. Kennedy)
      • Consulted as an expert for news article run by the Washington Post, NBC News, London’s Daily Mail, the Chicago Tribune, AOL, the New York Post, and more

      2017

      • Consulted by, and quoted in the New York Times regarding the value of Alexander Hamilton letters in the marketplace

      2016

      • Consulted by ESPN appearing on air as expert on authenticity for the most valuable document ever to be offered for sale ($36 million)

      2015

      • Multiple international media interviews including BBC