Meet Our Founder
Denise Cicchella founded Auspicium LLC, a boutique Consultancy firm delivering high quality risk management and audit services tailored to Construction and Facilities Management. In addition, Auspicium delivers superior expert and introductory training in Construction risks assessment and audit for facility & project managers, audit teams and professional bodies.
Denise is a recognized expert in construction audit, protecting owners from the overpayment of construction costs due to fraud, error, or negligence on behalf of contractors. Denise is a published author, speaker and trainer. She is a MBA, Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Construction Auditor and Fellow of the Life Management Institute.
- Developed, championed and lead Control Solutions construction audit practice until November 2009, when she left to form Auspicium. She was responsible for developing methodology and training employees that led to recoveries of over 7% on construction audits performed. She developed a client base of large/medium Companies, Universities, Hospitals and Public Bodies. She specialized in identifying overpayment of construction costs, identification of recoveries, risk management, and project management.
- Team leader at Met Life, specializing in fraud investigations, records management,property management and facilities management. She managed the audit of one of the most complex residential complexes in Manhattan and worked on a project team integrating the facilities of Met Life with business acquisitions from Traveler’s.
Denise authored Construction Audit Guide: Overview, Monitoring and Auditing, published by Institute of Internal Audit, Co-author Essentials of Construction Management, published as a self-study course by Informa.
Denise is an alumni of Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she earned her MBA in International Business and Loyola University, Maryland where she graduated with a BBA in accounting.