People
Relying on its staff and network of associates, ACR is capable of assembling multi-disciplinary, multi-lingual, multi-city project teams.
Michel Frojmovic MCIP, RPP
Director
Michel has practiced in Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia since 1993 as an urban policy and local governance specialist. His project experience has focused on inter-disciplinary, municipal-community-private partnership approaches to addressing local governance, social development, housing and environmental issues. His experience has been applied to project management, evaluation & monitoring, multi-stakeholder process management, policy and strategy formulation, institutional analysis & organizational development, survey and qualitative research, and training manual design. Over the past six years, Michel has taken on an active role in neighbourhood development issues in Ottawa. In 2004, he founded Creative Neighbourhoods, a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening neighbourhood identity and diversity. Michel holds a Master of Urban Planning and Bachelor of Arts (Honours Political Science) from McGill University, and is a full member of the Canadian Institute of Planners.
Michael Jean
Web Designer / Programmer
Michael has 10 years experience as an Information Technology professional in the public and non-profit sectors. During that time, Michael has developed solid project management experience at all phases of IT development, including analysis, design, implementation, QA testing, deployment and maintenance, and documentation and end-user training. His particular strengths include creative and economical problem solving, with an ability to view problems from different perspectives. Michael earned a Bachelor of Science Honours degree at the University of Ottawa in 1998 and received a Diploma of Applied Information Technology at Information Technology Institute in 1999. He works in either official language.
Asad Mohammed, Ph.D.
Associate
Asad has practiced throughout the Caribbean since 1983 in the areas of urban planning, land and housing issues, public policy analysis, programme development and evaluation. During this time, he has prepared numerous studies and technical reports, organized and coordinated short courses, conferences and training workshops, and published and presented papers on the subjects of development planning, low income housing and human settlements planning, land administration and tenure, transportation policy, social infrastructure, informal sector development, and EIA/SIA. He is presently Coordinator of the Graduate Programme in Planning and Development and Head, Department of Surveying and Land Information, UWI. In that capacity, he has served as a principal participant in action research programs in the region addressing socially sustainable cities and community planning in low-income marginalized urban communities. He has also done extensive public service, including serving as the Chairman of the (Interim) National Physical Planning Commission. His social development activities have included serving as a founding director of Sou-Sou Lands and working with the National Land Tenants and Rate payers Association. He is presently working on the establishment of an East Port-of-Spain Revitalization Council and the formation of a participatory process of planning in East Port-of-Spain and a Council of Community Leaders for that area. Asad holds a Master’s degree in Regional Planning and a PhD in City Planning from Cornell University.
Tracey Lauriault
Associate
Tracey is a research geographer with a wide range of interests. She is bilingual (English-French), holds an MA (Geography), a BA (Geography) from Carleton University (specializing in Geographic Information Processing), an architectural technician diploma and a permaculture design certificate. Currently, she is a PHD Candidate at Carleton University and a Canadian Graduate Scholar. A profile of Tracey's work is also available through the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre.
Mike Ditor
Associate
Michael has worked on various knowledge-sharing initiatives focussing on the creation and dissemination of sustainability indicators. Projects have involved multiple stakeholders and publishing of shared databases, requiring web-accessibility and rigorous maintenance of the relevant metadata. He has worked on these initiatives as project coordinator, technical support, researcher, web content authour and database manager. Michael holds a M.A.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from École Polytechnique in Montréal, a B.A.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Waterloo as well as a Joint Major B.Sc. in Biology and Environmental Sciences from McGill University. His M.A.Sc. thesis project focused on the use of Life Cycle Assessment, a cradle-to-grave environmental impact assessment technique, as a decision-making tool in contaminated site remediation projects.
Trish Ta
Associate
Trish has worked in the IT sector for four years, honing her skills while studying full time at Carelton University. She is skilled with various web development software including Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft Frontpage, as well as web programming languages such as HTML, CSS, XML, PHP, ASP, and JavaScript. Trish holds a Bachelor of Information Technology, Multimedia and Design from Carleton University.
Evan Thornton
Associate
Having a life-long affinity for main streets with a variety of pedestrian-scale businesses and services, his moves took him ever closer to his favourite stretch of Wellington Street until in 1999 he moved to his present location, a stone's throw from Parkdale Park. The fantastic range of main-street services and the wealth of public transit options in the Parkdale market area allowed Thornton and his family of four to take advantage of the district's best-kept secret: its residents don't need cars. They went car-free in 2000, and are pioneer members of the auto-sharing organization VRTU-Car. Evanis the editor of Spacing Ottawa and has written on urban issues for print and online publications. He coordinates the Wellington Street Readers and is a co-founder of the Alternative Voices Lecture Series at the University of Ottawa.
Tamara Krawchenko
Associate
Tamara is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Public Policy at Carleton University. Her research focuses on urban governance and the creation
of special purpose bodies for transportation and transit in large metropolitan areas. Tamara has significant experience in statistics and economics and is proficient in SPSS, Stata and Excel. Most recently she has gained training in geospatial analysis with an emphasis on spatial statistics. Prior to embarking on her Ph.D. studies, Tamara was labour market analyst for the Province of Nova Scotia.