Mr. Brando is a Crime Scene Investigator with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.   Prior to his current position, he served as a Crime Lab Technician with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and then as Crime Scene Technician with the Tampa Police Department.  Mr. Brando has a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology from St. Leo University.  He has taken specialized courses in such areas as Crime Scene Management and Post Blast Training, Shooting Trajectory Reconstruction, Biology Screen Training for Presumptive Analysis of Blood and Semen, Forensic Biology, Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, Forensic Alternate Light Applications, and Crime Scene Techniques Involving Surface Skeletons and Buried Bodies.