Michael Kirkpatrick
Independent Consultant
Kirkpatrick Consulting

Mr. Michael D. Kirkpatrick is a Morgantown, WV, based independent consultant in the areas of biometrics application, use of criminal history record information for screening purposes, criminal justice information systems, law enforcement, homeland security, strategy, business development, and forensic accounting. Mr. Kirkpatrick has provided consulting services to a number of clients, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Defense Biometrics Management Office and Biometrics Fusion Center, the United Kingdom’s Police Information Technology Organization, the I-79 Development Council’s West Virginia Biometrics Initiative, a number of international systems integration and consulting companies, and privately held biometrics companies.

Mr. Kirkpatrick retired as a Special Agent of the FBI on August 31, 2004, after a 26 ½ year career. At the time of his retirement, Mr. Kirkpatrick was the FBI’s senior Assistant Director, having served as Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division for 42 months. In that capacity, he led the FBI’s largest Division into the realities of the post-9/11 world by finding ways to adapt the nation’s existing law enforcement information technology infrastructure to support the global war on terrorism and by developing the world’s most extensive biometrically-based database of terrorist identities. In 2003, President George W. Bush recognized Mr. Kirkpatrick’s leadership in the use of biometrics in the global war on terrorism by conferring on him the rank of Meritorious Executive. Mr. Kirkpatrick was responsible for $1 billion in information technology resident at the CJIS Division, including the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), National Crime Information Center (NCIC), National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), Law Enforcement Online (LEO), Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR)/National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS)/National Law Enforcement Data Exchange (N-DEx), and an international wide area network (WAN).

Mr. Kirkpatrick, who is a Certified Public Accountant, also held a number of other investigative and leadership assignments in the FBI, including serving as Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the New Orleans Field Office, Administrator of the Western Regional Computer Support Center, Supervisory Special Agent in the San Antonio Field Office, and investigative assignments in the Kansas City and Cleveland Field Offices. Mr. Kirkpatrick is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, among other professional and community organizations.