Mr. Harry James Smith Jr.

To say that digital forensics is central to Heather Mahalik Barnhart's life is quite an understatement. Heather has worked on high-stress and high-profile cases, investigating everything from child exploitation and homicides to Osama Bin Laden's media. She has helped law enforcement, consulting firms, and the federal government extract and manually decode artifacts used in solving investigations around the world. Heather began working in digital forensics in 2002 and has been primarily focused on mobile forensics since 2010 - there's hardly a device or platform she hasn't researched or examined or a commercial tool she hasn't used.