Experience

Oaksterdam University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Chair Extraction Division

  • Apr 2021 - Present

  Worldwide-Zoom

• Professor

  • Dec 2019 - Present

  Oakland, California, United States Teaching courses in cannabis laboratory testing, extraction, and product formulation



Gangano Consulting, LLC

• Founder

  • Oct 2015 - Present

  San Diego and San Francisco Bay Area Current area of focus is in the cannabis industry. Proven track record in obtaining retail, manufacturing, and distribution cannabis licenses for my clients in California. Independent service provider for manufacturing operations setup, manufacturing product and formulation development, obtaining licensing, regulatory compliance, ISO-cGMP-cGLP documentation creation, Quality Management System creation, validation, accreditation services.



Brio Therapeutics

• Co-Founder and COO

  • Oct 2015 - Sep 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer responsible for designing, creating, and implementing manufacturing and laboratory operations for a medical cannabis company. Areas of particular focus are advising and ensuring compliance with state and local regulations, interfacing with local governmental agencies, business documentation compliance, creation of efficient manufacturing operations, and directing new product development, formulation, and quality control testing.



IntegenX, Inc.

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director, Technical Account Management

  • Oct 2014 - Aug 2015

  Pleasanton, CA Led a team of talented Technical Account Managers in the Commercial Business Unit at IntegenX, whose number one priority is to get customers operational using the RapidHIT Human Identification System in their workflow. The diverse customer base includes forensic laboratories, law enforcement agencies, and military operations. As director of this team for the past year, I drove consumable revenues up by 220% and led the team to increase customer operational status by 400%.

• Principal Investigator -- Applications Development Team

  • Oct 2013 - Oct 2014

  Pleasanton, CA Lead a group of development scientists and field application specialists at IntegenX, Inc in the San Francisco Bay Area. Function as technical liasion internally between R&D Team and the Commercial Team within IntegenX Function as technical liasion externally between IntegenX and the RapidHIT Human Identification customers (customer base includes government, private industry, and academic sectors) Responsible for implementation of RapidHIT technology at customer sites… Show more Lead a group of development scientists and field application specialists at IntegenX, Inc in the San Francisco Bay Area. Function as technical liasion internally between R&D Team and the Commercial Team within IntegenX Function as technical liasion externally between IntegenX and the RapidHIT Human Identification customers (customer base includes government, private industry, and academic sectors) Responsible for implementation of RapidHIT technology at customer sites, aiding in validation and implementation efforts to assist customers in becoming operational Lead Pilot Programs for RapidHIT technology at key customer sites Develop applications for the RapidHIT system to address customers' specific use-case needs Provide voice-of-customer for RapidHIT system improvements and future platform development direction

• Sr Staff Systems Integration Scientist -- Advanced Product Development

  • May 2009 - Oct 2013

  Pleasanton, CA Proven product development, systems integration, and complex systems troubleshooting skills Developed and delivered world's first commercially-available rapid DNA analysis system (RapidHIT 200) Developed and delivered multiple genetic analyzers to forensic and sequencing markets (ex. ABI 3700 and 3100, MegaBACE 4000). Work intricately with all subsystems and processes from hardware to software to application development; proven capability to deliver from concept to… Show more Proven product development, systems integration, and complex systems troubleshooting skills Developed and delivered world's first commercially-available rapid DNA analysis system (RapidHIT 200) Developed and delivered multiple genetic analyzers to forensic and sequencing markets (ex. ABI 3700 and 3100, MegaBACE 4000). Work intricately with all subsystems and processes from hardware to software to application development; proven capability to deliver from concept to development to manufacturing.



City and County of San Francisco

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Criminalist II, SFPD Crime Lab

  • 2001 - Apr 2009

  San Francisco DNA and Narcotics Casework Courtroom expert witness testimony Casework documentation preparation and technical review Discovery documentation preparation New instrumentation and process SWGDAM validation



Amersham-Pharmacia Biotech

• Systems Integration Scientist

  • 1999 - 2001

  San Francisco Bay Area Developed and delivered MegaBACE 4000 (384 capillary genetic analyzer) to sequencing market



Life Technologies

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Integration Scientist - Genetic Analyzer Product Test Group

  • 1997 - 1999

  Foster City, CA Developed and delivered ABI 3700 96-capillary Genetic Analyzer to sequencing market. Developed and delivered ABI 3100 96-capillary Genetic Analyzer to forensic and sequencing market.



Monsanto Company

• United States
• Farming
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager--Advanced Research and Development Group

  • 1996 - 1998

  Gonzalez, Texas



Kellogg Company

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager - Vitamin QC and Development Group

  • 1993 - 1996

  Battle Creek, MI