Mary Ann Warren has over 25 years of volunteer experience working as a search dog handler in the profiles of live find, disaster, water and human remains detection. She has been the volunteer trainer for the Search & Rescue Dog Association of Alberta for over 20 years, aiding in their members search dog and handler team's development. Professionally she has been a dog trainer for over 35 years, learning all she can in the dog obedience, tracking, search and detection world. Mary Ann is an accomplished author of many training documents and one additional book on Human Remains training. She has been awarded, for years of service, medals from the RCMP, Edmonton City Police, Office of the Fire Commissionaire, Alberta and the Search & Rescue Volunteer Association of Canada, with many police agency acknowledgments for finding the missing person.