Dr. John Ryan is a recently retired administrator for the Hawaii State Department of Agriculture quality assurance division. Prior to that, he retired from teaching graduate courses in quality, operations, project and safety management at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California. He has spent 25 years implementing international quality systems throughout the U.S. and Asia. He specializes in electronic sensor enabled traceability having started and tested the country's first RFID real-time farm-distribution-retail system. He has published extensively in the food safety and traceability areas and is well known throughout the RFID industry. His recent work includes international produce tracking between California, Hawaii and Asia using temperature and GPS tracking along with explosives and bio-contaminant sensors attached to satellite reporting systems.
email: jryan@sanitarycoldchain.com