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, PMP
Owner
Michel holds a Master of Urban Planning (1993) from McGill University, and is a full member of the Canadian Institute of Planners, Ontario Professional Planners Institute and the Project Management Institute. He has practiced in Canada, across the Caribbean and around the world, directing, managing or participating in numerous projects in the areas of urban planning, community data, and community resilience. Michel is the Director and Owner of Acacia Consulting & Research. Through his company, Michel’s role typically includes any combination of strategy & plan preparation, social and environmental assessments, and the design and implementation of training & capacity building programs, stakeholder engagement strategies, and monitoring & evaluation systems. In the area of community data, Michel has served as primary consultant offering comprehensive support to Canada's leading local indicator and reporting projects. These include the Canadian CED Network's Community Data Program (since 2005); the Federation of Canadian Municipalities' Quality of Life Reporting System (2002-2015); and the Community Foundations of Canada's Vital Signs Reports (2006-2010).
Michel's professional development has a strong Caribbean influence. Following a year of study and research at the University of the West Indies' Department of Land Survey in Trinidad, Michel's first professional assignment (1993-1994) was with Trinidad's National Housing Authority. He has split his time between Canada and overseas ever since.
Michel has lived in Ottawa's Wellington Street West area since moving from Montreal in 1995. He has taken on an active role in neighbourhood development over the past twenty years, notably in issues related to community planning and design. In 2004, he founded Creative Neighbourhoods, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing good planning and design to Ottawa's old west end. In 2006, he led a process which resulted in the formal establishment of the Wellington Street West Business Improvement Area. Michel operates his company from 430 Parkdale Avenue, a mixed use residential and commercial property that was home to the Village of Hintonburg's town hall until 1907. 
Michael Ditor
Senior Analyst
Michael works on various knowledge-sharing and monitoring initiatives, focussing on the creation and dissemination of sustainability indicators that track local trends and inform policy. Projects involve engaging multiple stakeholders, production of reports and shared databases, as well as providing online tools with access to content, data and rigorously maintained metadata. Projects have included Federation of Canadian Municipalities' Quality of Life Reporting System the Canadian Community Economic Development's Community Data Program, the Community Foundations of Canada's Vital Signs Reports and the Sustainable Community Indicators Program, a joint project undertaken by Environment Canada, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. Michael has worked on these initiatives as project coordinator, researcher, analyst, content authour, working group animator, technical and web support and database manager. Michael holds a Joint Major B.Sc. in Biology and Environmental Sciences from McGill University, a B.A.Sc. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Waterloo and an M.A.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the Interuniversity Research Centre for the Life Cycle of Products, Processes and Services at the École Polytechnique de Montréal. Michael is based in Montreal.
August Tensuda
Data Scientist and Data Visualisation Specialist
August serves as the team’s Data Visualization Developer, working with Tableau, Power BI and open source software. August also has extensive experience with Data Science and Data Analytics. August works with a range of data analytsis software and tools, including Python, R, SQL, Git, QGIS, Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt, HTML, CSS, Javascript, C++, and LaTeX. August works with both qualitative and quantitative data for analysis and mapping. August graduated in 2024 with a Master of Science in Analytics from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Georgia) and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Physics from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (Oshawa, Ontario).
Saeideh Hejazi
Data Analyst
Saeideh holds a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Tehran in Iran and a post-graduate certificate in Geographic Information Systems from Fanshawe College in Ontario.