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Greater Chicago Area

Aligning cybersecurity strategy with corporate strategy: determining reasonable cost, strategic impact, and implications for business practices all require senior leadership’s awareness and understanding to be accomplished properly. This is where so many companies fail to engage an informed understanding of the cybersecurity landscape and optional responses available to them, in a way that allows the CISO, Board, senior leadership, Internal Audit, Compliance, General Counsel, CFO and CIO to all be fully in possession of the facts and implications.Arx Nimbus gets to the quantitative reality of the implications and assumptions, re-frames the path ahead for cybersecurity in alignment with corporate strategy, and expresses the program in regulator-friendly and compliance-ready terms. We work with senior management to develop the optimal scenarios and orchestrated combinations of initiatives to produce optimal results – all based on our proprietary mathematical modeling tools, so you have a full understanding of the implications in dollars and cents.

Scottsdale, Az

CFO for CYR3CON(TM) that provides a platform for social threat intelligence (STI) to enhance cyber security for the enterprise. Manage Accounting, Finance and Human Resources.

Scottsdale, Arizona

Provide Merger and Acquisition and Financial Consulting services for Executive Teams. Clients included: Cadence Design Systems, Black & Decker, Autodesk, A&M and Lockheed Martin.

Phoenix, Arizona

Managed the overall financial, accounting, human resources, IT and Volunteer functions.

San Jose, California

Responsible for worldwide preliminary analysis, due diligence, transition planning, integration and performance measurement for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and alliances for Cadence Design Systems, a $1.4B electronic design automation software firm.Worked directly with Senior Executives of Cadence Design Systems, law firms and investment banks to complete the M&A process. Successfully integrated over 15 companies. Day-one operations were effective and successful in all cases.Drove the implementation of Valchemy Software as the platform for the M&A team. Reduced costs by 25% as a result of streamlining all Business Unit, Functional and Geographic activities into one system. Ensured and accelerated repeatable, measurable processes for entire M&A team. Reduced learning curve for new team members by 30%.Managed the Integration team to smoothly transition target companies into Cadence. Through detailed planning, successfully integrated the employees, assets, real estate and facilities of the firms acquired. Developed Due Diligence and Integration processes for M&A team. Developed Corporate Service Agreements for the IPO of Design Services (Tality).

Palmdale California

Responsible for Advanced Programs Materiel Branch for all aspects of the acquisition process for construction/facilities, general procurement, outside production, raw materials, supplies and services, and special technologies. Contracted, negotiated, budgeted and administered procurement/contract activities for general contracting, site support services, avionics systems, special technologies, capital equipment, fixed assets, purchase parts, consultant and maintenance agreements.

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, Marketing