[1] Adams career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation began as a Special Agent in 1983 in Memphis, Tennessee.

While at the Laboratory, Adams headed the research team that "developed and validated the DNA testing procedures ultimately used in the FBI and throughout the world.

[3] Adams would go on to be the first FBI Agent to testify in cases in which DNA evidence would be admitted in US Courts.

Further, Adams was the Violent Crimes program coordinator, leading two successful undercover operations.

[2] On July 1, 2006, Adams was named the first Director of the University of Central Oklahoma Forensic Science Institute, returning to his old Alma Mater.