Special Agent Joel F. Wade is a 20-year Law Enforcement veteran with nineteen of those years spent with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation as a Special Agent Criminal Investigator assigned to the Cybercrime & Digital Evidence Unit, specializing in Communication Intelligence as part of the Operational Technologies Squad.

Special Agent Wade spent fourteen years performing digital forensics examinations as a digital forensics examiner, where his emphasis was in researching small scale digital devices, reverse engineering applications, and malware on smartphones. Special Agent Wade has taught at the National Forensics Academy, TBI Special Agent Academy, TBI State and Local Academy, TBI Forensic Science Academy and TN-ICAC Conference in the area of Digital Forensics and Communication Intelligence. Special Agent Wade developed and teaches Digital Forensics, Mobile Forensics, and Introduction to Cyber Security as an Adjunct Professor at Cumberland University in Lebanon Tennessee.

Special Agent Wade received his Bachelors of Science in Psychology from Tennessee Technological University, w/ Minor in Sociology in May of
1999. Special Agent Wade received his Masters of Science in Criminal Justice Administration from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in August of 2002.