David Bellerive | Making Infrastructure Work for People

I help make infrastructure work for everyone.

Hello there! I am David Bellerive, a bilingual public-sector strategist in Ottawa. I help large organizations navigate procurement, coordination, reporting, and execution with one goal in mind: turning ideas into delivery people can trust.

I connect institutional logic with public meaning. Whether I am advising leadership on budget strategy or explaining public delivery through real-world infrastructure and transit projects, I make complex operations clear, accountable, and workable. The same operational clarity I bring to finance and procurement guides how I approach infrastructure challenges, because what people experience depends on what works behind the scenes.

What drives me is simple: outcomes. I want institutions and infrastructure to work for people in practice, not just on paper. That is why I build systems and processes that reduce friction, strengthen trust, and help teams deliver with confidence.

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Strategic Experience

Beyond my civic work, I serve as a financial planning and reporting advisor at the University of Ottawa. I oversee and analyze multi-million dollar budgets, procure a wide variety of goods and services, produce strategic reports, and guide decisions that balance institutional goals with operational realities. Working with a wide range of internal and external partners, I help shape outcomes that are practical, transparent, and aligned with long-term objectives.

This role grounds my perspective in the realities of public delivery, where ambition meets constraints and systems must perform under pressure. It also shapes how I think about governance, communication, and the quiet mechanics that determine whether public infrastructure succeeds or fails.

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YouTube Channels

I am actively involved in producing visual and research-driven content for Rail Fans Canada and other independent projects. I use infrastructure and transit systems as real-world case studies to examine how public systems are planned, governed, and delivered in practice.

Whether I am explaining complex operations or sharing behind-the-scenes insights, my aim is to make the mechanics of public delivery clear and accessible — showing how decisions, constraints, and coordination shape what people ultimately experience.

My Latest Video

I create videos that examine how public systems function in practice, using infrastructure and transit projects to make complex delivery challenges easier to understand.

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Thumbnail of latest video created by David Bellerive, Coast to Coast 2025: The Evolving State of Passenger Rail in Canada

Let's build the systems that shape what's next.

Public infrastructure needs more than vision: it needs people who can connect delivery with meaning, and ambition with accountability. That's the work I want to do.

I bring a mix of operational experience, civic insight, and creative strategy to complex systems. Whether you are leading a major project, designing a public platform, or expanding delivery capacity, I am ready to contribute and drive results.

If you are hiring, collaborating, or building something that needs both delivery and trust, let's talk.

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