Leading Statewide Digital Transformation, Service Modernization & Data-Driven Government
Expertise at the intersection of emerging technologies and public policy
I build the systems that help New Jersey government serve residents. My team has delivered the NJ Eviction Guide, the NJHOMES Choice Tool, available to all 564 municipalities for their affordable-housing requirements, NJHOMES Atlas, a statewide map of municipally owned vacant land, a lead-paint inspection portal with GIS mapping, and Operation Right Answer, a contact-center modernization built with the NJ Innovation Authority.
A mandate from the Legislature does not run itself. Someone has to turn it into a working system, and that is the part I do, along with building the team that keeps it running.
I have done both the policy work and the engineering work, so I can write the systems that implement a statute instead of handing a spec to a vendor. I know what compliance review looks like and what a budget can pay for. I also know that a tenant facing eviction cannot wait for the next release cycle.
A statute or mandate with a deadline and no system behind it yet
Built and run in house by a team that stays after launch
A service scorecard where every measure has an owner and a reporting cadence
2026
National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials. For NJHOMES, the NJ Eviction Guide and the HERF AI model.
2026
NJ Civil Service Commission, delivered by Rutgers SPAA. Capstone: Operation Right Answer, the DHCR contact-center and service-scorecard program.
2025
New Jersey Civil Service Commission. For A4-S50 affordable housing implementation, the work behind the NJHOMES Choice Tool. Covered by Shore News Network.
2024–Present
Founded the Data Center of the Division of Housing and Community Resources in March 2024 and built the in-house civic technology team that delivered the NJ Eviction Guide, Bringing Veterans Home, the NJHOMES planning tools and NJHOMES Atlas.
2017–2024
Built and ran New Jersey's first statewide public records request platform, 2017 to 2024. No longer operates it.
NAHRO 2026 National Conference & Exhibition
Session on how the NJ Department of Community Affairs built the Homelessness Economic Risk Framework (HERF), a ZIP code-level risk model with a conversational GPT interface, and used it to model the effects of federal budget proposals on New Jersey.
NAHRO 2026 National Conference & Exhibition
Four NAHRO national awards for NJ DCA's NJHOMES program, NJ Eviction Guide, and HERF AI model, accepted on behalf of the Department in Denver on October 15, 2026.
New Jersey Department of Community Affairs
NJ DCA announced NJHOMES Atlas, a free tool for mapping the vacant land towns own under a new federal rule. The release quotes me on why it was built.
30th Annual Governor's Conference on Housing and Economic Development
Panel on the economic development case for affordable housing and the data tools DCA has built to help communities make that case.
Projects for New Jersey residents
Interactive self-help tool connecting New Jersey tenants facing eviction directly to housing assistance and legal resources.
Walks tenants through the eviction process in plain language
Statewide data infrastructure for New Jersey's initiative to end veteran homelessness, with program data featured on the state's public Report Card transparency site.
Designed the by-name-list data the state used to measure progress to Functional Zero, reached statewide in July 2026
Statewide map of roughly 42,000 municipally owned vacant parcels, built from State property records so every town can publish the inventory the federal ROAD to Housing Act requires, at no cost.
One tool for all 564 municipalities; each town corrects and publishes its own list
Thirteen program-by-program phone queues in the State's largest housing division became one contact center, with a service scorecard that measures what residents experience.
One contact center and a reusable way to measure service
New Jersey Department of Community Affairs
Government innovation and modernization executive and data scientist whose career spans academic research and state government. He has delivered platforms that processed tens of thousands of public records requests, helped tenants facing eviction find their options, and built a lead-paint inspection portal with GIS mapping.
He is the Founding Director, DHCR Data Center at New Jersey's Department of Community Affairs, an office he founded in March 2024, where he leads the in-house team that builds the department's digital services.
Recruits and develops civic technology teams inside the civil service system, so the capacity stays after a project ends
Works across agencies, program staff and engineers, and explains technical work in terms each audience can act on
Sets platform strategy and architecture for modernizing government systems that residents use directly
Builds decision frameworks from spatial analysis, statistical modeling and visualization
National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials. For NJHOMES, the NJ Eviction Guide and the HERF AI model.
NJ Civil Service Commission, delivered by Rutgers SPAA. Capstone: Operation Right Answer, the DHCR contact-center and service-scorecard program.
New Jersey Civil Service Commission. For A4-S50 affordable housing implementation, the work behind the NJHOMES Choice Tool. Covered by Shore News Network.
Founded the Data Center of the Division of Housing and Community Resources in March 2024 and built the in-house civic technology team that delivered the NJ Eviction Guide, Bringing Veterans Home, the NJHOMES planning tools and NJHOMES Atlas.
New Jersey Foundation for Open Government
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Winning entry: a 3D population density map of New Jersey.
Stockton University
Stockton University
Built and ran New Jersey's first statewide public records request platform, 2017 to 2024. No longer operates it.
New Jersey Civil Service Commission, delivered by Rutgers SPAA, August 2026
Stockton University, 2020
Stockton University, 2018