 Michael Bloom's position at Brown Harris Stevens was created in 1998 - the company's 125th year of continuous operation - with a view toward the many challenges that 21st century technology would bring to the firm. As its first director or information, his managerial experiences in growth and change have helped to establish and maintain an advanced, proprietary information system that continues to identify and drive new business opportunities.
As Senior Vice President, Managing Director of Information he is responsible for the firm's residential property research materials, information and data, both in their physical form and online. He oversees the information database of residential sales and rental listings shared among the firm's brokerage, appraisal, and research divisions, website and marketing programs, and shared with other brokerage firms in a distributed process known as co-brokerage. He is responsible as well for the information systems-training program and orientation provided to Brown Harris Stevens brokers and their assistants, sales agents, and staff, as well as for the operation of the data entry process and its personnel, and to this end Michael initiated and directs FORUMS, the Brown Harris Stevens instructional series, a springboard for user mastery of the firm's information systems, and for initiatives in development of new systems.
Michael developed the standards for instant access to photos, floorplans, and detailed listings for launch of the firm's first website in early 1999. In 2000 he brought solicitation address information online to facilitate in-house mail processing, and he served as director of communication for a joint industry web site, the project of an industry task force. The following year he developed the rapid flow of information from the property listings database to the customer in an innovative application, and he established the firm's in-house marketing publications department. In 2002 he improved methods to report residential sales transaction data to owners and other executives, and he administered the integration of the RealPlus Online Listings Exchange at Brown Harris Stevens. In 2003 his collaboration with real-time database replication and web design experts laid groundwork for the industry's first real-time real estate website, and in 2004 his work produced tools for sharing residential sales website activity publicly featured in "Market Pulse" and for real-time reporting of that activity to the firm's clients and customers. In 2005 his work with database administrators resulted in the instant online production of exclusive marketing materials, and his work with webmasters resulted in real time reporting of web traffic to the firm's clients and customers.
From 1977 to 1996 Michael Bloom worked as an arts educator, arts administrator, arts advocate and foundation director at federal, state and local levels. During this period Michael represented the activities of John Cage and Merce Cunningham in their work with cultural organizations at the cutting edge of education, technology and media. His experience included work with Silicon Graphics Incorporated, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Museum of Modern Art, the Public Broadcasting Service and the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Aperture Foundation for Photography and the Visual Arts, the Sundance Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Pubic Library and the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
Michael has also served as an officer of educational and charitable organizations. His work as a commission chairman of the National Office for Arts Accreditation helped the US Department of Education to establish federal student financial assistance for the professional training of dance and theatre artists enrolled in non-degree granting post-secondary institutions of higher education. Michael also serves as a director of 2wice Arts Foundation, which publishes an award-winning interdisciplinary arts journal in support of excellence in the performing and visual arts.
Michael Bloom was born in Manhattan. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Bard College in Annandale, NY. He is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York and he lives with his wife on Manhattan's Lower East Side where rich and diverse textures of tradition point to an everyday experience of growth and change.
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