Most recently, Cetra has been retained to perform forensic collections for several well respected law firms including the second largest law firm in the United States. They have also performed several security audits and investigations searching through deleted, hidden, re-formatted, or damaged data stores extracting files proving activity (or in some cases non-involvement) that was not known or unproven. These cases include HR issues (such as pornography or theft of company information), production of responsive documents culled out of millions of non-relevant documents, recovery of email, and absolute preservation of data for possible later use.

Cetra uses state of the art software and equipment such as write blockers and best practices to prevent contamination due to the investigation itself. In addition to Cetra's technical expertise, Cetra's e-discovery manager is an attorney who is a certified Clearwell Administrator. The combination of this expertise, places Cetra at the front of all organizations attempting to collect or manage ESI. The loss of the integrity of your data can ruin the value of the data. Cetra's expertise guarantees your data will be collected and processed correctly. 

Michael McMurdo is president of Cetra Technology which specializes in providing small and medium-sized businesses with affordable top-level IT solutions.  Mike has 23 years of experience in operations and information technology, and has been president and CIO with a number of companies prior to establishing Cetra Technology.  He has a degree in Mathematics with post-graduate work in Physics from U.H. Manoa.

Guy Fernandes is an IT professional with over twenty years of experience working in financial, medical, legal, construction, government, retail, and hotel industries.  He has been instrumental in the design, development, implementation and maintenance of business systems for many of Hawaii's businesses. He has been a Systems Engineer responsible for designing, installing and managing a data processing center and created the Fraud Detection check imaging solution for First Hawaiian Bank and document imaging scanning applications. As the Senior Systems Engineer at Cetra Technology, Guy manages every step of the forensic collection process and assists with Clearwell support issues.  Guy holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Hawaii.

Karen McKinnie, a Hawaii lawyer, has recently joined Cetra Technology as the E-Discovery and Forensic Investigations Manager. She has oversight of business development, product consultation and training.  Karen has 17 years' experience developing the markets for Westlaw, a computerized legal  information system, working in San Francisco, New Jersey, New York, Tokyo, Sydney, Hong Kong and Beijing. She spent 7 years in Asia as Regional Sales Manager for Thomson Reuters, managing sales teams and marketing strategy throughout Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and India and helped launch the sales and marketing strategy for Westlaw China. Karen recently returned to live in Hawaii and will be helping attorneys understand how technology can ease the document review process, generate substantial cost savings for the client and better insure the integrity and defensibility of the evidence collection and selection process.  Karen received her law degree and B.S. in Journalism from the University of Colorado in Boulder.

The Forensics Team is covered with a staff of five additional engineering and support staff, each of whom has various areas of expertise providing Cetra with a diverse and comprehensive depth of technical skills.