Ardien Consulting Services

Your Partner in Isolator Validation

Founded in 1994 by Rick Nieskes, Ardien Consulting Services provides customized isolator validation to the pharmaceutical industry.  The firm has successfully validated over 100 isolators for production, sterility testing, and containment based applications for over 40 different pharmaceutical companies throughout the world.

About the Founder

Rick Nieskes is the founder of Ardien Consulting Services (ACS) and the principle isolator consultant at the firm.

Rick Nieskes has over 32 years of dedicated experience and full-time exposure in the areas of isolation technology, various biodecontamination and sterilization systems, sterility testing, aseptic processing, quality control microbiology and engineering.

Prior to founding ACS, Rick Nieskes worked as a Sterility Testing Biological Quality Assurance Microbiologist at Abbott Laboratories and as a VHP® Sterilization Systems Engineer at AMSCO International (now known as the STERIS® Corporation).

Rick Nieskes holds a BS degree in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Ciriculum vitae (CV) for Rick Nieskes

Rick Nieskes Standing in Front of 3 Sterility Test Isolators

Rick Nieskes Standing in Front of 3 Sterility Test Isolators

Rick Nieskes Placing Biological Indicators in Media within a Biological Safety Cabinet

Rick Nieskes Placing Biological Indicators in Media within a Biological Safety Cabinet

Rick Nieskes Working within a Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide Generator

Rick Nieskes Working within a Vaporized Hydrogen Peroxide Generator

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Last Update: 11-Jan-2023