Education
Jeff holds a Master"s degree from Columbia University and a Bachelor"s Degree from the University of Michigan.
Jeff holds a Master"s degree from Columbia University and a Bachelor"s Degree from the University of Michigan.
Jeff began his career working with United States. State Department-sponsored programs in Croatia, Macedonia, Albania, Serbia and Montenegro. Based on his experiences with democracy promotion in the Balkans, Jeff co-authored "Transacting Transition, The Micropolitics of Democracy Assistance in the Former Yugoslavia" (Kumarian Press, 2006). From 2003-2005, Jeff served as Executive Director for the Center for Civic Responsibility.
In 2009, under contract from the New York City Department of, Jeff helped run the first exclusively online public election in the United States.
In 2010, Jeff joined the office of New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and in 2012 was named one of City & State"s "New York City Rising Stars: 40 Under 40" for his work there as Senior Advisor. At the Public Advocate"s office, Jeff helped developed New York City"s Worst Landlord Watchlist, a first-of-its-kind tool to allow tenants to look up a current or potential landlord to see code violations in that landlord’s buildings.
The tool was expanded through a partnership with Craiglist in 2011 and replicated by the City of Vancouver in 2012. Jeff also led the Public Advocate"s open government and technology initiatives and national coalitions on issues of corporate political spending and gun divestment.
Following the election of Bill de Blasio as Mayor of New York City, Jeff helped established the Mayor" General’ s Office of Technology and Innovation.
As part of the Mayor" General’ s Office, Jeff led a range of technology efforts including the launch of the.nyc top-level domain, development of outreach systems for the expansion of pre-k in New York City, and the announcement of LinkNYC, New York City"s plan to build the largest and fastest municipal Wi-Fi network in the world.