Andrew Baird is a Subject Matter Expert with Jacobs, one of the world’s largest professional services providers to the electronics, life sciences, and specialized manufacturing markets. Global biotechnology and plasma companies turn to Andrew for his experience as a process engineer, process team leader, and knowledge in equipment and clean utility design for human plasma fractionation and bulk substance manufacturing. He leads clients from concept through detailed design to field supervision, construction, qualification, and start up. In addition to working on one of the first successful gene therapies for prostate cancer, Andrew performs peer reviews on plasma and drug substance manufacturing facilities. With nearly 30 years of experience designing cell culture manufacturing and purification systems, including single-use systems, project involvement also includes the world’s largest plasma batch size and plasma processing throughput.