User:Dbussiere

David Bussiere(Born February 23,1967) Place of Birth: Montreal QC

David Bussiere was born and raised in the suburbs of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was raised in an English home in what at the time was a predominantly English area of Montreal. He attended a total of five primary and secondary schools before dropping out of high school to begin working. From 1986 to 1995 he worked in various retail managerial positions in Montreal. After the 1995 sovereignty referendum, in which he has admitted he voted against separating from Canada, he was fired from Radio Shack.

This would be a turning point for Bussiere, who recalls being fired in French by the District Manager, a unilingual Francophone. "I asked him if I could ask a question in English, and he said yes. I asked him if he was firing me, and he said yes." At that point Bussiere asked him if he could continue in English so he could understand.

In April of 1996, Bussiere moved from Montreal to Toronto, Ontario, Canada where he joined the [Southam Publishing] Group as a collector. At the time, [Conrad Black] still owned this division, but soon sold it to CMD Building Reports based in Atlanta Georgia. While with CMD, Bussiere began listening to [Howard Stern] on [Q107] in September of 1997. He had always enjoyed radio, fascinated since he was a child with talk radio. From Ted Tevan, a legendary sports radio host in Montreal, to Pat Burns, Steve Michaels, Chris Goyens etc. In the seventies, Montreal English talk radio was vibrant. Listening to Howard Stern made him decide in 1999 to return to school at the age of 32 to study radio broadcasting. Bussiere studied and graduated from Loyalist College in Belleville, Ontario. He immediately was hired by the CHUM group of radio stations to help launch a brand new, but short lived, all sports station in Kingston Ontario. The TEAM 1380 was one station in a network of all sports stations with the flagship out of Toronto at the legendary [1050 CHUM] studios.

From the TEAM 1380 in Kingston, Bussiere eventually moved to being the morning news anchor on Classic Hits 95.5 in Belleville Ontario. He also did a Saturday night show on COOL 100, the country formatted sister station to Classic Hits 95.5. Finally in October of 2004, he joined KIX 102.7, co-hosting the morning show with Big G(Garry McColman). He also handled morning news, and was the music director while with KIX. "Working with Big G at KIX was the most fun you could ever have! Big G was funny, professional, patient and really knew how to make radio entertaining.  I think he is extremely underrated, and loved working with Garry." Bussiere was able to do a variety of voices and characters on the KIX morning show, from Bill Clinton, to Billie The Bookie. When [Brad Pitt] left [Jennifer Aniston], he phoned in as Aniston's hairstylist, with an allegedly drunk Aniston heard in the background.

In 2005, he moved from radio broadcasting to field marketing. Bussiere joined actv8 marketing as a regional manager in November of 2005. Starting with 35 locations, he built a team of field marketing agents that were responsible for the acquisition of credit cards for a major Canadian retailer in Ontario. In 2007, he was promoted to covering an additional 50 plus locations in Northern Ontario. In 2008, he added another team of agents to work in movie theatres across Central and Eastern Ontario. "Field Marketing for actv8 has been challenging and equally rewarding. I am blessed to have been permitted to grow with such a progessive forward thinking organization!"

Bussiere is also the proprietor of Shock & Awe Sound & Lighting. He specializes in weddings and private functions. He has provided the sound and lighting and entertainment for former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, and also was the dj at world class figure skater Lloyd Eisler's wedding.

David Bussiere has resided in Kingston Ontario, Canada since 2004. He is happily married and has three children in a blended family.