Short Form Résumé of
Dr. Bruce Murray Firestone, B. Eng. (Civil), M.Eng.-Sci., PhD.
Short Form Résumé of
Dr.
Bruce Murray Firestone, B. Eng. (Civil), M.Eng.-Sci., PhD.
Positions: Founder, Ottawa Senators Hockey Club and Scotiabank Place; Entrepreneur-In-Residence, entrepreneur en résidence, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada; Adjunct Research Professor, School of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering and Design, Carleton University; Real Estate Broker and Mortgage Broker, Partners Advantage GMAC Real Estate, Brokerage.
Business Courses Taught- Entrepreneurialist Culture, Small Business Management
Architecture Courses Taught- City Planning and Organization- Enterprise of the City- Urban Economics, Urban Design, City-State Development and Sustainability, Design Economics, Real Estate and Development
Awards and Memberships: Honorary Member, Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society for Collegiate Schools of Business, March 2008. Exemplary Course Designation, Design Economics, Canada Architectural Accreditation Committee, 2004. Winner, Educator of the Year Award, OCRI EduGala, Ottawa, 2002. Awarded Canada 125 Anniversary Honorary Medal. Member, Ottawa Commonwealth Games 2014 Bid Committee, Member, Community Budget Advisory Team, City of Ottawa, Kanata Economic Development Task Force, Ottawa International Airport Authority Planning Committee. Founding Member of CIRA's (Canadian Internet Registry Authority) Marketing and Branding Committee. Member, NHL Executive Advisory Committee, NHL Expansion Committee, NHL Marketing and Public Relations Committee. Former Member, Ottawa 67s Advisory Board, 1998/99.
Carleton University Program Development: Founder, LearnByDoing.ca. Program. Co-Founder, Magic From A Hat Lecture Series and Entrepreneurship Co-op Practicum Funding Program. Member, Sprott School of Business Committee for Entrepreneurship- the Entrepreneurship Track at Carleton University. Researcher, Canadian Sustainability Laboratory- Architectural Uses of Stereo Space and Sustainable Development.
Coaching: Startup and SME Advisor, Mentor
and Coach: gradeAtechs.com, Envision Online
Media, Brymark.com, FuelIndustries.com,
Ottawa Real Estate News, StreetPaddleTennis.com, StreetPaddleTennis.com, others.
Academic
Background: Professional Real Estate Brokerage Course, Principles of Appraisal, Real Estate Investment Analysis, Ontario Real Estate Association College, 2007; Real Estate Law, Phase 3 (Commercial Real Estate), Ontario Real Estate Association College, 2006; Phases 1, 2 and 3 (Residential Real Estate), Ontario Real Estate Association College, 2005. Ph.D. in Urban Economics from the
Urban Research Unit of the Australian National University, Canberra, 1982.
Master of Engineering-Science (Traffic and Transportation), University of New
South Wales, Sydney, 1976. Bachelor of Civil Engineering, McGill University,
Montreal, 1972. Also attended: Harvard University (Finance), University of
Western Ontario (Economics) and Laval University, Quebec City (French). High School, Ashbury College, Ottawa: graduated
1967, age 15.
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Former Positions Held: Former Director and Vice-Chair, Canadian Internet Registration
Authority (CIRA) Former Executive Vice-President,
Business Development, Momentous
Corporation.
Served on
National Hockey League's Board of Governors. Writer and Columnists, EQ (Entrepreneurship Quarterly) Journal, EQJournalBlog.com, Vice President of Business Development, Maple Leaf Design and Construction. Former RECO-licensed Real Estate Sales Representative, Metro Suburban Realty Ltd.
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Founding Director, Ottawa Art Gallery (Arts Court/Firestone Family Group of
Seven Collection). Past
Director, Terrace Corporation, S.C. Stormont Corporation. Former Publisher,
Ottawa Business News; Consultant, Bureau of Management Consulting, Supply and
Services Canada. Former Chair, Ottawa Rough Riders. Operations Research
Engineer, Metropolitan Waste Disposal Authority, Sydney, Australia. Research
Scholar, Australian National University, Canberra.
Sample Research and Writing: Urban Design, Real Estate Development,
Architecture, Engineering:
Empirical
Measurement of the Rate of Return of a University Education, Ottawa
Vision 2002- A Focus on Self-Reliance. Speech to the Mayor's Breakfast April
18, 2002. Ottawa, Canada. Livable
Cities and Social Harmony. Increased Urban Density for Ottawa? Land's End- City Building Explained, City Vision, City-States and Economic
Prosperity, Urban Sprawl- Are We Asking the Right Questions? Updating the
Design of the 'Granny Flat' as a (Partial) Solution to the Affordable Housing
Crisis, Development Economics and Entrepreneurship, Democratic Abuse- NIMBY'ism, Densification and Intensification, Re-engineering Building Permits, Re-engineering Land Use Approvals Systems, Challenges Ahead for Cities, Imbalance between Community Activists and Developers, Ontario Mayors
Overlook Solution to Affordable Housing Crisis, Density and Land Values- Why NIMBY'ites are Wrong, Peggy Feltmate's Policies,
Global Online
Survey of Community Attitudes to Densification of Existing Neighborhoods, Negative Property Taxes and Nimby Mitigation. Interview with
Hernando de Soto. Re-Engineering the Homebuilding Industry, Affordable and Web-Enabled Housing for the Third World, Affordable
Housing in Africa, Gated Communities, Burbclaves, Segregation by Income and
Social Unrest, Teamwork in the
10th Millennium B.C. Guidelines for Better Urban Design, The Kanata Town
Centre- How to Jump Start the Project, Measuring the Value of Creativity- Value of a City's Treescape, Development Charges are
Inequitable and Damage the Prospects for Building Affordable Housing.
Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce- the Way Ahead, The
'Highest and Best Use' Rule as a Principle for Organizing Cities, Towns and
Villages Or Why Nimby'ites are Wrong to Oppose Higher Densities and Mixed Use-
Dollars are
Democrats, Negative
Property Taxes and the Nimby Problem, Urban Catalysts, City
Building and the Web, Maximizing Benefits from Waterfront Views, Land Speculators -- Market-Makers or Villains, No Money Down Real Estate Investing-- Bootstrap Financing, Why Invest in Real Estate, Why Realtors Should Increase Sale Prices, HR Professionals-- How to Demonstrate their Value Proposition: Spreadsheet, Blog Entry, Investment Parameters-How Differing Investment Parameters on the Part of a BUYRER can Affect the Value of Commercial Real Estate, If I were King Of Exxon, I would... Invest In Real Estate, Why you need a Personal Web Site. Marketing the Students Design Clinic, Guerrilla Marketing for a Design Firm. Critical Path Methodology for Kosmic. Saragasso
City-- a City-State Thought Experiment, Neo
Urbanist Design and Sustainability of the City, Construction and Letters of Credit- Why the Big Get Bigger and the Small PAY and Pay, Developing a Business Model and Fiscal Model for a City (Example of City of Ottawa), What is the Fiscal Impact of Commercial Development on a City versus Single Family Development?, What are We Counting On? (How a City Gets out of a Fiscal Death Spiral), Democratizing a City's Budget Process (Contributing Author), Re-Engineering City Processes, Review of the City of Ottawa's Planning and Growth Management Department, Sustainable, Emergency Prepared Cities- Lecture for Shad Valley students at CU, July 2004. Analysis of Urban Water Supply
Costs, PhD. Thesis, 1980; Creation of Distortion Free Price Index Deflator for
Australia, 1979; Formulating Optimal Plans for the Transportation, Trans-shipment
and Final Assignment of Solid Waste in the Sydney Metropolitan Region, Masters'
Thesis, 1975.
Sample Research and Writing:
Entrepreneurship and Business: Creditor Proofing, Build and Hold: the Difference between Getting Rich and Being Wealthy, (The Value Created by Long Term Control over a Sustainable Competitive Advantage or Factor of Production), The Bootstrap Entrepreneur, Address to the First Annual Exploriem.org Symposium, How
to Bootstrap yourself to entrepreneurial success in the 21st Century, Inaugural Lecture in the
Magic From a Hat
Lecture Series 2000, Sources of Bootstrap Capital, 25 Steps to
Entrepreneurial and Personal Success, Internal Rates of Return (IRR), the power of leverage and goal setting using a Reverse IRR Model. Determining Core Competencies, Firestone's Three Laws of Power Selling, Cold Calling- How to Sell, Guerrilla
Marketing (GM)-- Substituting Brains for Money in the Marketing Wars, Guerrilla Marketing- Market-By-Press-Release and Market-By-Publishing + Some Tips on Doing Media Interviews, GM
Online Survey of Smartest (and Dumbest) ever GM. Guerrilla Marketing for CIRA (the Canadian Internet Registry Authority). Negative Cost Marketing, Speech for LeadershipOttawa.org (February 18, 2004): The Leadership Challenge, Negative Cost Marketing- An example for an Architecture Firm. Sources of Bootstrap
Capital and Finance, Bootstrap
Capital Online Survey, Speech to the Kiwanis Club of Ottawa-- Entrepreneurship, Development and Sustainability; Ordered Thinking- the Role of Creativity in
Business Success, Entrepreneurialist
Culture Quotient Test, the Art of Pricing, P=M=B, Politics, Media and Business Form An Identity, More about Politics, Media and Business-- It's About Power, Create
Your Own Clients for a web developer, Score
your own Web Site, GM
for CU's Students Design Clinic, Getting the Business Model Right for
Startups, 'Pixie Dust'- the Magic
that Really Makes your Business Work, Anti-Pixie Dust:
What Others Got Really Wrong in their Business Models. Free, online utility for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs: Business Model Generator, BMG , BMG Landing Page and BMG Media Release. Scoring
Business Models, Differentiated Value- Another Look, the Business Model Scoring Test,
Stupid
Market Studies and GM Research, Guerrilla
Marketing for the Canadian Internet Registration Authority- a Business Plan,
Solution
Selling-- Law Firm Model, Solution
Selling-- Toyota Model, Win-By-Losing
Sales Model. Market by Media Release, Trade Up-- Selling Your Business, The Internet is
Eating a Hole in the Global Economy, Scalability, New Business Models, Why You Need a PWS (Personal Web Site), Death of IP, The Internet at Age 50, Some Simple Rules to Start your Entrepreneurial Career With, Why you need a Personal Business, Truth/Smart Truth in a Litigious Society, Pioneers Get Shot At, Why Media Attention is a Double Edged Sword. The Ethics of Pre-selling. Case Studies: Transitus Sign Company, How the Ottawa Senators
were Born, Dunrobin Lake-- residential real estate development, Robertson Mews--
mixed use development and
others. How the Promotions Industry Missed the Boat, How to Present Effectively-- The Two Minute 'Elevator Pitch', Why Businesses Fail, the Stages of an Entrepreneur's Life and your Storehouse of Luck.
Sample Research and Writing: EQ Journal and EQ Journal Blog.
Other Writings and Intellectual Property: Constant Price Estimates, A Method for Producing Consistent Deflator Series and Applications; Strength through Diversity, Speech at Official Opening, Art Mode Gallery, June 13, 2006; What Walt Rostow, the Aga Khan and Hernando de Soto Teach us about Bringing People Everywhere out of Poverty, World Partnership Walk, the Aga Khan Foundation, Speech, June 4, 2006, What is the Purpose of a National Economy? (What is the Purpose of Life?), What Do Clients Really Want, Secrets to Attracting (and Keeping) Clients for Layers and Accountants, Probability Theory, Prediction and the Stanley Cup-- Why the New Jersey Devils won the 7th game of the final series versus the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim 2002/2003, Why Cheering for the Maple Leafs is ... Unnatural, Degree of Difficulty- Why Scoring First is Key to Winning in the NHL. Want to Score More Goals? Then Learn to Shoot the Puck like Al MacInnis by Adding Angular Momentum to your Shot. Why Some Slapshots are not only Hard but Heavy too. Value of lunar real estate-- a thought experiment. Utility Patent granted (aerodynamic surfaces for flying discs). Design Patent granted (automotive signage). Inventor, Apple Tree Harvest Tool, teaching the Power of Positive and Negative Numbers to Young Children: Bananas, Burger Wars, Smarty Pants Games, LED light strings.
Real Estate and
Development Projects Include: Terrace
Corporate Centres, Presidential Executive Travel Apartments, Trails of Dunrobin,
Dunrobin Plaza, Robertson Mews, Dunrobin Lake, Kennedy
Meadows, West Terrace and the Palladium lands development, Ottawa Botanic Garden Society, March 417 Park (New Ottawa
Water Park, Golfland and Motel and Travel Centre), Earl Grey and Blue
Heron (Kanata) Co-op, Villager Home Corporation, Ottawa Senators Foundation, Ottawa Real Estate News.
Design and development participation- Corel Centre (650,000 square foot sports
and entertainment complex); Cinema en Plein Air; Royal Bank Pavilion (60,000
square foot retail and office); BDO Centre (100,000 square foot office and
retail); Briarbrook (850 home subdivision); Robertson Mews (mixed use project,
300+ high, medium and low density residential units and retirement dwelling
units); Dunrobin Village (mixed use- commercial, medium and low density
residential).
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Personal Interests: Chair, Bruce M. Firestone Atom
Invitational Hockey Tournament. Sports: running, tennis, sailing, paddle tennis, skiing, hockey,
ultimate, canoeing, dragon boat racing. Dragonboat Team 2000. Story of Team 2000. The 'Misfits' 2001. Hobbies: reading, writing, inventing,
creating, starting new enterprises, city-building, educating, collecting
Canadian and American art. Born: December 4,
1951. Married: Dawn Marie MacMillan. Five children: Andrew, Rachel, Miriam,
Matthew and Jessica.
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Charities
Supported: Christie Lake Kids, Minor Hockey, Muscular Dystrophy, Ottawa Senators Foundation,
National Capital Alpine Ski Team, Ottawa Rotary Club, CHEO Foundation,
Queensway Carleton
Hospital.
Please contact: Executive Assistant, Matthew Firestone (613) 794-5560.
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