About JobForge

Built by someone who's had to find the next job more than once.

Michael Bauman

Founder · AI & Agentic Systems Builder

I've made more career transitions than most people attempt in a lifetime — Air Force, patrol officer, sales management, back to law enforcement, nine years as a digital forensics detective, and now senior consulting. I've competed for every one of those moves, usually as the outsider against candidates with more conventional paths.

So I know what the job search actually feels like: the spray-and-pray applications, the generic resume sent to twenty postings, the hours lost to listings that turn out to be closed or fake. It's exhausting, and most of that effort is wasted on the wrong things.

I spent nine years as a digital forensics detective at El Paso County Sheriff's Office building research discipline that holds up under scrutiny — cross-referencing records, filings, and data sources most people walk right past, and I qualified as an expert witness on the strength of that work. JobForge applies that same discipline to the job search: weighted matching to what you actually care about, independent verification that every posting is truly open, and a custom resume and cover letter for each role — never one generic resume sprayed everywhere.

It's the search engine I wished I'd had every time I had to start over.

Credentials & Background

U.S. Air Force — Honor Graduate, BMT & Police Academy
Patrol Officer — Salida PD & Evans PD (10 years)
AFLAC District Sales Manager — nearly 10 years
Digital Forensics Detective — El Paso County Sheriff (9 years)
Qualified Expert Witness
Senior DFIR Consultant, private sector (2025–present)
GIAC Certified Forensics Examiner (GCFE)
National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C)
Published author, Police Magazine

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