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Consulting CFO
Divitiae Financial ConsultingConsulting CFO
Nov. 2024Florida, United StatesProviding selective financial and strategic consulting services.
Chief Financial Officer
AR Homes® by Arthur RutenbergChief Financial Officer
Jun. 2021 - Apr. 2025St. Petersburg, Florida, United StatesAR Homes® by Arthur Rutenberg is one of the largest networks of independently owned and operated homebuilding companies in the nation, with franchised homebuilders throughout Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. With a portfolio of more than 100 award-winning designs, a variety of unique support services and a cadre of nationally recognized vendor partners, we excel at one thing: building the most beautiful homes in the neighborhood–whether on customer-owned property or in some of the finest, most prestigious upscale communities.
Vice President of Finance
MeritageVice President of Finance
Aug. 2014 - Jun. 2021Greater Atlanta AreaMeritage Homes is the seventh-largest public homebuilder in the United States. Meritage builds and sells single-family homes for first-time, move-up, luxury and active adult buyers across the Western, Southern and Southeastern United States. As Vice President of Finance, leveraged prior public company experience to lead the local integration of all finance and accounting elements of Legendary Communities into the Meritage environment. Partnered with the Division Presidents in both Georgia and South Carolina to build out strong foundations to accomplish accelerating Meritage strategies.
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
Legendary Communities (Acquired by Meritage - July 2014)Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
Dec. 2013 - Jul. 2014Greater Atlanta AreaLegendary Communities was formed in the spring of 2009 by an ownership and management team with a combined 50+ years of experience in residential homebuilding and development. The privately-owned company was headquartered in Atlanta, GA with additional divisions and operations in Greenville, SC and Charlotte, NC. With over 500 annual home closings, Legendary Communities was one of the largest and fastest growing homebuilding companies in the Southeast. As CFO and COO, led the company's successful effort to realign divisions, business process and team structure resulting in enhanced focus, clarity, leadership development and productivity. Member of team responsible for the sale of the company to Meritage Homes.
President
ServidynePresident
Aug. 2012 - Aug. 2013Greater Atlanta AreaServidyne provides comprehensive sustainable building performance and energy management solutions and products to customers who own and operate building portfolios throughout the world, and engages in commercial real estate investment and development. In this position, I led the effort to develop and implement short- and long-term strategies to enhance shareholder value and return on investment through revenue growth and increased profitability at this subsidiary of SCIenergy. This was primarily focused on driving efforts to re-launch and re-brand the 40 year old company, requiring business transformation and modernization to elevate touch points with customers. As part of SCIenergy's focus strategy, Servidyne was spun off and sold to an employee group.
Senior Vice President, Operations
SCIenergy, Inc.Senior Vice President, Operations
Feb. 2012 - Aug. 2012Greater Atlanta AreaSCIenergy is an international energy management company dedicated to elevating building performance across owner portfolios utilizing a unique combination of high-tech software solutions and high-touch expertise, together with capital to deliver sustained savings. As Senior Vice President of Operations my responsibilities included planning and directing all aspects of SCIenergy's operational strategic and tactical initiatives to ensure that the company met its goals and operated efficiently and successfully.
Vice President, Finance
SCIenergy, Inc.Vice President, Finance
Sep. 2011 - Jan. 2012Greater Atlanta AreaAs Vice President of Finance at SCIenergy, I was responsible for integrating financial and accounting systems and processes for the new organization that resulted from the merger of Servidyne and Scientific Conservation.
Chief Financial Officer
Servidyne, Inc.Chief Financial Officer
Nov. 2007 - Aug. 2011Servidyne was a publicily-traded company (NASDAQ) with a blue chip customer base (Ritz Carlton, Hyatt, Frito Lay, Johnson Controls, SunTrust Bank, Bank of America, CBRE, JLL, Genuine Parts) that delivered world class solutions and services focused on energy optimization within buildings through high-tech software solutions and low tech infrastructure improvements. As Chief Financial Officer at Servidyne I was responsible for all aspects of SEC reporting, internal financial reporting, M&A, corporate tax, financial operations management, budgeting, forecasting, insurance, treasury, technology and human resources. Reporting to the Chairman and CEO, I was a member of the Executive team that strategically grew the core business 40% annually in the last two years in a very challenging economic environment. Part of the Executive team that led Servidyne to a successful merger with Scientific Conservation to form SCIenergy.
Vice President of Operations
Servidyne Systems, LLC (subsidiary of Servidyne, Inc.)Vice President of Operations
Jan. 2005 - Jan. 2007As Vice President of Operations for Servidyne, I led the energy efficiency, engineering, and project implementation practices at the company. Responsibilities included full P&L reponsibility and strategic and tactical operational management. Led the team that was awarded the Presidential Award for Leadership in Federal Energy Management for the company's work with the Bureau of Land Management. Implemented new energy efficiency project development software system and processes ($100K project), resulting in $400K in annual productivity gains and greatly improving accuracy of project scope and cost estimation.
Vice President of Financial Operations
Servidyne, Inc. (formerly Abrams Industries, Inc.)Vice President of Financial Operations
Jan. 2003 - Jan. 2005As Vice President of Financial Operations, I was primarily responsibile for managing all accounting and financial aspects of the business and for working with business leaders in Operations to facilitate process integration, KPI definition/measurement, operating structure and reporting mechanisms to ensure that the company achieved its revenue and profitability goals. Led the integration of all accounting, financial and HR elements for three acquisitions related to the transformation of the company from primarily a general contractor to a building optimization company. Created a customer-facing financial model in coordination with Sales executives to enhance ROI sales value prop.
Various Positions - including President, CFO and Vice President of Operations
Servidyne/SCIenergyVarious Positions - including President, CFO and Vice President of Operations
Nov. 1997 - Aug. 2013Greater Atlanta Area

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