Gavin Rozzi, MS, CPM
Director, Data Center Administration
Building data-driven platforms that turn policy into impact
I build the systems that help New Jersey government serve residents. My team has delivered the NJ Eviction Guide, the HOMES Choice Tool, available to all 564 municipalities for their affordable-housing requirements, 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.
My Execution Framework
Complex government mandates requiring technical implementation
Modern frameworks and data infrastructure built for scale
Analytics and performance tracking built into every platform to drive improvement
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.
Recent articles, talks, and contributions
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.
Learn More about Using Generative AI to Predict Housing Instability and Model Solutions
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.
Learn More about The Real Cost of NIMBY: The Economic Development Case for Affordable Housing
NJ DCA Mayors and Legislators Resource Series
Recorded webinar introducing NJHOMES Atlas, the statewide map of municipally owned vacant land that lets New Jersey CDBG grantees meet the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act's October 2026 publication rule.
Learn More about Turning Vacant Land into Opportunity: NJHOMES Atlas WebinarRoute Fifty
Route Fifty's national coverage of New Jersey reaching Functional Zero for veteran homelessness, with Gavin Rozzi on the data systems behind it.
Learn More about New Jersey reaches its goal to eliminate veteran homelessnessProjects for New Jersey residents
Interactive self-help tool connecting New Jersey's most vulnerable residents directly to housing assistance and legal resources.
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.
Platform for exploring 6,740+ New Jersey civil service job specifications, with career path tools and resume matching.
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.
New Jersey Department of Community Affairs
Government technology 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 of the DHCR Data Center (Director, Data Center Administration) at New Jersey's Department of Community Affairs, 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
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
Founding director of the DHCR Data Center. Built the in-house civic technology team that delivered the NJ Eviction Guide, Bringing Veterans Home and the NJ HOMES planning tools.
New Jersey Foundation for Open Government
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
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, GPA 4.0
Stockton University, GPA 3.9
