J. Andrew Tachovsky, M.S., P.E.

Computational analysis and modeling practice leader

PHONE 512-351-7254
CELL 512-791-7576
FAX 512-382-6945
E-MAIL atachovsky@toxstrategies.com
ADDRESS 9390 Research Blvd
Suite 250
Austin, TX 78759

Professional Profile

Mr. Andrew Tachovsky is a licensed Senior Engineer at ToxStrategies with over 10 years of experience in human health risk assessment and engineering research. His area of expertise is in numerical analysis of environmental data associated with shale gas development and heavy industrial activity, air quality modeling and analysis, multi-media exposure and risk assessment modeling, dose reconstruction analysis, geospatial and statistical analysis. Mr. Tachovsky is skilled at incorporating monitoring data and environmental sampling into numerical models to reduce conservatism and bring accuracy to the modeling process. He is skilled at dose reconstruction modeling of large industrial hygiene datasets to estimate occupational exposures. He is skilled at utilizing GIS to bring context to risk assessment results by mapping the specific impact for each resident in a community. Mr. Tachovsky has managed large, multi-discipline science and engineering projects; from experimental design, to field sampling and laboratory analysis, to computer modeling and numerical analysis, to assessment of impact on human health, and finally to resolution. He has served as a liaison to help large industrial facilities understand the language of risk assessment and develop actionable operating conditions that satisfied regulatory risk assessment requirements.