Forensics - Finance and IT, CEO, CFO

E lihu R. (Eli) Lucas, lll

Curriculum Vitae

Dedicated to the fervent pursuit of self-actualization with activities I love in the quest of my passion for personal and team

excellence.

**** ******* Trace, New Orleans, LA 70121 504-***-**** ********@*****.***

Career Objective:

To secure an opportunity with a socially-responsible and growing fi rm that encourages the full utilization of my professional training, hands-on experience and abili ty to

extract knowledge and team performance acquired from a life’s tradition of a driven, honorable and passionate work ethic, zealous competition and a demonstrated drive

to excel and win as measured by profitability objectives.

Career Summa ry:

• Extensive experience as a corporate officer responsible for navigating the h azards of success in a corporation, primarily economic r isks.

• Responsible for f iscal planning and accounting, reported directly to the President/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) on all strategic and

t actical matters as they relate to budget management, cost benefit analysis, forecasting needs and the securing of new funding.

• Expert w ith grasping voluminous amounts of raw data, organizing the information and spawning reports from the supporting facts. These preliminary steps

lead to the production of information and presentation of data in formats such as abstracts, graphs or summaries for upper management.

• Participates in the design of reports that integrate data from multiple sources, including design of reporting systems and standardization of metrics and

formats across departments and functional areas.

• Professionally-trained and considered skilled with many statistical analysis methodologies including data mining algorithms, statistical sampling,

d ifferentiation, linear and non-linear regression, econometric and time series, modeling, equation modeling, interactive statistical graphs, “big data” analytics,

p robability. Production of ad hoc analysis as requested.

• Regarded as an authori ty in the use of many software tools, including SPSS, STATISTICA, SigmaStat, Quantum, Minitab, and several others (I almost forgot

Excel).

• Considered the last word with extensive specialized t raining and twenty-one years of hands-on experience in the preparation and analysis of financial

statements, prepared documents, correspondence and other communication materials to convey information to appropriate audiences.

• Adept at producing ample amounts of ad hoc reports in the form of financial statements or informational summaries of statistics amassed in my research.

I ncluded in my repertoire of reporting skills (but most certainly not limited to) are a overabundance of GAAP Balance Sheets, Income Statements / Profit and

Loss, Statements of Cash Flow, Sources and Uses of Funds, Investment summaries and many others as desired.

• Well schooled in the development of a glut of financial forecasts used in the budgeting process: Income projections, expense projections, gross profit forecasts,

l abor expense projections, tax expense forecasts, interest rate predictions, ROI, Cash Management, A/R Management, Inventory Management, Intangible

Asset Accounting and Management, A/P Management, Debt Management, Long-Term Asset Management as well as Investment Management.

• Former Microsoft Partner for seventeen years – considered expert with the majority of Microsoft products.

• Strategic Alliances and influence with 20 years experience in finance and IT forensics, data collection and revival related to criminal, civil and internal

i nvestigations, as well as multiple disaster recovery scenarios. Lead consultant in recuperation operations associated with two horrendous disasters:

Recovery of the entire IT data store of McFrugal’s distribution center decimated in one of the worst fires in US history (New Orleans, 1996). Additionally,

restoration of information from salt water-submerged data centers at four medical institutions following Hurr icane Kat rina (New Orleans, 2005).

• Hyper-conscious of potential expense attributed to internal as well as external security breaches. Far-reaching professional t raining coupled with more than

seventeen years of field expertise in records examination and quantitative data analysis from a forensic perspective. Well-versed in ascertaining both

f unctional as well as dysfunctional infrastructure performance in addition to user behavior. Acute awareness of expense associated with untimely detection

and remediation of ever-present security threats, data leakage and network compromise. Professionally trained in data collection, examination and study

u tilizing an array of statistical gathering and forensic techniques for t roubleshooting and protecting infrastructure and corporate resources.

• Developed, integrated, and administered several custom accounting and practice management applications that improved safety, work f low efficiency, reduced

operating costs and increased profits in the medical as well as legal fields.

• Action-oriented leader with a strong track record of performance, anyone familiar with my work ethic knows the clock is something others watch.

E ducation:

MBA - AB F reeman School of Business, Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)

Recognized by Forbes as among the ‘Top 20’ MBA programs in the United States.

August '94 - May '96

Master of Business Admin istration Degree

Dual Major: Finance & Information Technology / Data Management Systems

Cumulative Average: At least the minimum 3.75 required to maintain an MBA Fellowship.

• Authored the original business plan for my first consulting venture during an MBA class project in Entrepreneurial Studies (taught by mentor and world-

renowned venture capitalist, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Whole Foods, John Elstrott, PhD) at Tulane, 10/95.

• Completed extensive studies in a plethora of data analysis and econometric modeling techniques under the direction of mentor and world-renown economist

Russell Robbins, PhD.

• Provided first instruction presented to students at the AB Freeman School of Business in advanced multimedia presentation skills using programs like

PowerPoint.

L oyola (New Orleans, LA)

Jan '91 - Apr '94

Bachelor of Science Degree Cumulative GPA: 3.975

Major: Finance, Forensics and Portfolio Management - GPA: 4.00

Second Major: Information Technology - GPA: 4.0 - Completed dual four-year finance and I T program in 3.5 years.

• Before completion of freshman accounting, allowed enrolling in the capstone course reserved for seniors in the study of finance (According to mentor and

former accounting professor, Lloyd Brandt, PhD, “Now you’re attempting the impossible

• Received highest grade among my senior-ranking peers for efforts in that leading-level class, Case Studies in Finance.

• Freshman performance in finance earned the privilege to attend all graduate level finance classes as a replacement for undergrad topics.

• Performance additionally gained opportunity of completing independent studies in portfolio management, forensic finance and data analysis under the direct

supervision of mentor, as well as advisor, Forensic Economist, J. Stuart Wood, PhD. According to Dr Wood, I am the only finance student at Loyola to

accomplish such lofty goals during his thi rty-five year tenure as a finance professor.

• ONLY course that I did not earn an A was religious studies, B+.

• Achieved President’s List distinction for scholastic performance following each of five consecutive twenty-one hour semesters producing a 4.0 grade point

average.

• Beta Gamma Sigma (Honor Society for Business Majors) rated my scholastic performance as superior in undergrad studies and was admitted as an esteemed

member.

• Bestowed the Graduate of Honor award at Loyola graduation ceremonies, May, 1994, in recognition of the highest cumulative grade point average, 3.975.

• My performance earned fellowships to any ‘Top 20’ MBA program in the US.

• Awarded full scholarship and two grants to attend Loyola Law. (Pending)

Experience:

Et ruscan Limited Investments, LLC New Orleans, LA 2002-2012

CEO

• Highest-ranking corporate officer i n charge of total management of the organization . Appointed as a CEO by the board of directors.

• Researched, invested, managed and divested a diversified portfolio of investments for a private equity group. The portfolio included a well diversified selection

of equities, fixed-income securities, commodities, futures, derivatives and real estate.

Zippa, LLC (ZIPPA.com) New Orleans, LA 701**-****-****

CFO

• Corporate officer p rimarily responsible for managing the f inancial r isks of Zippa, LLC. Responsible for f inancial planning and record-keeping, as well as

f inancial reporting and analysis of data to President, CEO and venture capitalist Sigmund Solares. Reported directly to the chief executive officer and to

t he board of directors, and sat on the board. Supervised the finance unit and was the chief financial spokesperson for ZIPPA.COM. Directly assisted the Chief

Operating Officer (COO) on all strategic and tactical matters as they related to budget management, cost benefit analysis, forecasting needs and the securing

of new funding.

• ZIPPA, L LC was a New Orleans data center built by Enron and purchased during the liquidation of their assets.

• ZIPPA.com was the only fully operational communication link to the world during the Hur ricane Kat rina disaster.

Onsite Consulting Services, LLC New Orleans, LA 2002-2012

CEO

• Corporate officer responsible for total management of the organization . Appointed as CEO and reported directly to the board of directors.

• Constructed a team of analysts to provide IT security evaluations, recommendations and compliance consulting services primarily for the healthcare and legal

i ndustries.

Onsite Computer Services, I nc. New Orleans, LA 1995-2012

CEO

• Highest-ranking corporate officer i n charge of total management of the organization . Appointed as CEO and reported directly to the board of directors.

• Provided a one call, 24x7x365 resource for everything a H IPAA-Compliant Microsoft Enterprise network and data center could possibly need from

router/firewall to desktop.

• Our target niche consisted primarily of health care institutions, higher education and the legal industry. Many consider our user base among the toughest

clientele to provide one-on-one, personal service in an immediate, 24x7x365 fashion.

• The majority of clients consisted mainly of surgeons, professors of surgery, surgery residents, surgical support staff, administrative and accounting personnel.

• A few noteworthy achievements: We began with an ‘afterthought’ tattered, dysfunctional ‘sneaker-net’ and token r ing network with one Novel 3.12 server

p roviding intermittent access to a small percentage of users from the Department of Surgery at Tulane University Medical School. Following ten years of

mostly seven day per week improvements, we transformed the network into a model Microsoft Enterprise in full H IPAA Compliance.

• The result of our efforts was complete t rust by the chairmen of the surgery departments and total financial as well as IT autonomy.

• Connectivity and safety was provided by a Cisco network infrastructure composed of firewall, routers and switches.

• Designed and fabricated the first laparoscopic simulation lab for t raining of residents as well as continuing education for seasoned surgeons.

• Until Hur r icane Katrina, the surgery sector grew to twenty-five diverse departments of surgery with an average user base of ~1500 professionals.

• Performed similar services for three other major health care institutions and the Louisiana State Bar Association.

J. Stuart Wood, PhD, Consulting Forensic Economists, Metairie, LA 700**-****-****

Forensic financial an alyst, research assistant, data an alyst and presentation authority.

• Provided financial analyst duties in formal manner demanded by legal profession and Fortune 500 fi rms.

• Interacts with external customers to define reporting needs and specifications. Authored several feasibility studies for Fortune 500 fi rms considering New

Orleans as a base of operations.

• Well versed discovering weaknesses and potential methods of fraud associated with more than thirty accounting systems and an infinite number of practice

management applications utilized by sundry businesses in various industries.

• Investigated a superfluity of different businesses in preparation of formal business plans used to determine viability, growth, potential markets, strategy and

other components used in the solicitation of investment or venture capital.

• Extraordinary know-how with a passion for assembling and presenting research findings via advanced presentation skills with programs like PowerPoint, to

senior management clients. Additionally, provided report documentation.

• Provided advice to analysts in other industries and business units regarding standardization of business rules and algorithms for analysis and reporting.

Identified business risks relating to statement design and production.

ACT T ravel T raining School, Pompano Beach, FL. 1985-1990

N at ional Admissions D i rector / Sales M an ager

• Recruited, trained, inspired as well as fired a sales force of admissions representatives in 17 states east of the Mississippi River.

Blue Cross of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA 1975-1985

Salesman and eventua lly Sales M an ager of southeast Louisiana

• Sales, training of salesmen and eventually sales management of hospitalization and health insurance retailing.

Extensive references from very prestigious, high-achieving individuals furnished upon request.

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