Andy has over 35 years of pharmaceutical industry experience, beginning at Smith and Nephew in 1985 as a Microbiologist, progressing to QA Microbiology Manager in 1996. During that time, Andy gained experience in QA and QC activities around the manufacture of sterile eye drops, aseptically filled sterile creams and non-sterile syrups.

In 2003 he became the RSSL Pharmaceutical Training Manager with responsibility for providing commercial pharmaceutical training courses. Topics that Andy leads on include Environmental Monitoring, GMP, manufacturing sterile products, microbiology and root cause analysis. 

In 2007, Andy moved to Catalent Pharma Solutions, taking the role of Microbiology Manager and leading a team responsible for microbiological control of freeze-dried tablets and soft gel capsules. Here, Andy gained valuable experience in regulatory inspections, failure investigation, risk assessment and operational excellence activities including Lean Six Sigma Kaizen events.