Michael Brando Email & Phone Number

Santa Rosa, Ca, Us

San Francisco Bay Area

Spotlight Therapy provides Applied Behavior Analytic services and consultation services for families with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD). Our mission is to increase the personal and behavioral independence of young individuals affected by ASD and help them to lead productive, satisfying, and normal lives.

San Francisco Bay Area

Investing in small businesses and opportunities with good long-term growth potential.

Silicon Valley, Ca

Provides specialized services and management consulting to life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceutical companies and forensics laboratories to implement and establish tailored and highly effective information management systems. Our in-depth industry knowledge and deep technical expertise enable our experienced personnel to work with clients to develop and implement informatics solutions that are most suitable for their business needs.

San Jose, Ca

Responsible for multiple functions and globalized teams encompassing Software Architecture; Software Technology development and technology roadmaps developing products based on C#, WPF, WCF and .NET in an SOA framework; Software Product Engineering; Requirements Engineering; Software Quality Engineering; Firmware Quality Engineering; Information Development; Technical Publications, Production and Editing. Managing large, complex multi-year product development projects of over 150 resources utilizing my own staff of 80+ people, external contractors and 70 offshore resources located in India. An experienced fiscal planner managing multiple departmental budgets of over 20MM including capital equipment, amortization, depreciation and expenses to plan. Member of strategic due diligence teams to evaluate and make recommendations on potential acquisitions and subsequently participated on integration teams for an acquired unit’s successful inclusion into BD Biosciences business and operations.

Directed teams of software engineers, leads, and managers in the development of commercial software products and reusable software components based on Oracle, Java/J2EE, SQL, PLSQL, C++ on Windows, Unix (Organization size: 32 FTEs). Created annual plans for resource, travel, hardware, capital, and software purchasing including software licenses, training budgets, and computer leasing. Hired and retained key engineers with very low attrition rate. Experienced at conflict resolution, working through issues resulting in best results for all concerned – maintaining harmony, good team communication and collaboration. Skilled at addressing and turning around personnel performance issues. Continually developed expertise in the Life Sciences domain.