Barry G. Lett

                                                                                                                  10 O’Hara Drive

blett@dramatispersonae.org                                                             Kanata, ON K2W 1A2

blett@hickling.ca                                                                                    613-270.9629 (w)

barry.lett@sympatico.ca                                                                           613-839-5611(h)

 

Professional Highlights:

 

  • 27 years real estate development and plan processing experience
  • Management of direct build and build to suit projects in residential, commercial and industrial development sectors
  • Consultation on all aspects of regulatory approvals at local, regional and provincial levels, including political and legal (OMB) presentations
  • Market analyses for optimizing value of real estate assets
  • Facilitating client discussions with municipal staff and regulatory agencies
  • Direction of multidisciplinary consulting groups
  • Feasibility studies, financial analyses, appraisals and business plans

 

Earlier career activity:

·       Field surveys, designs and drafting of solutions to municipal servicing issues

·       Coordinated consultants for municipal works including water distribution systems, well and water reservoir services, waste water systems including pumping studies and municipal sewerage and waste water treatment facilities.

 

 

Professional Experience:

 

Firestone family and affiliated companies                                                 1992 – present

Hickling Capital Corporation – Consultant                                                             

Manchester Development Corporation – Vice Pres. Dev.                                       

M. H. Milford Holdings Inc. – President                                                                

Bretton Woods Entertainment Inc. – President                                                        

Terrace Corporation – Vice President Land Development                                     

·       Coordinating and directing numerous multidisciplinary consulting activities groups covering areas of municipal engineering, regional and local planning, environmental studies, biological, vegetative and wildlife studies, geological and structural analyses, as well as hydro-geological testing including well drilling and reporting, surface topography and drainage studies, legal and surveyor representations, and subdivision plan registrations

·       Prepare business plans, financial analyses, feasibility studies and appraisals

·       Direct and execute acquisitions, mergers and divestitures

 

Wedgewood Building Corporation:                                                               1988 – 1992

Vice President, Land Development

·       Coordinated and directed many varied consultants in processing major developments in the Greater Ottawa area and northern New York State

·       Major development expansion, purchases and merger negotiations

 

Stolp Building Corporation (Ottawa)                                                            1985 – 1988

President and Ottawa General Manager

·       Directed land development, house construction, marketing and sales as well as branch management resulting in excess of 100 housing units per year by 1988.

 

Macdonald Developments (Ottawa)                                                              1984 - 1985

Manager, Land Development

·       Coordinated numerous land activities, appraisals, feasibilities and purchase negotiations

 

Costain (Canada) Inc.                                                                                                       

Calgary Development Manager                                                            1978 – 1984

Ottawa Development Manager                                                             1972 – 1978

·       Directed land development activities of over 2300 acres in three municipalities in the Ottawa area and purchased and developed over 700 acres in the Calgary area. 

·       All project developments were coordinated with the other team members in each branch office.

 

Nepean Ontario (now part of the City of Ottawa)                                          1967 – 1972

Assistant to the Township Engineer

·       Involved in all aspects of a municipal engineering office including surveys, designs, construction and inspections of internal municipal works

·       Assisted with the management of consultants, inspections and reports to Council for major works involving municipal water supply, reservoirs and sanitary sewer systems including pumping facilities and a secondary sewage treatment facility

·       Coordinated all reports inspections and approvals for subdivision development within the municipality with completed presentations to Council 

·       Negotiating municipal subdivision agreements and registration of subdivision plans

 

Canadian Federal Government                                                                     1966 – 1967

Senior Engineering Technologist

      Department of Energy Mines, Department of Environment

      Inland Waters Branch

·       Field surveys (topographic) Northern Ontario.  Followed by field note reduction, drafting and preliminary design concepts for diversion systems to the Great Lakes watershed.

 

Education and Training:

Engineering Technologist

Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto                                                     1966

Engineering industry courses in construction management and systems including COBAL, Critical Path, PERT as well as a number of management courses from the American Management Association and the American Presidents Association.

 

Computer knowledge and skill:

MS Office, Word Perfect

 

 

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