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Amauris Rodriguez is helping implement new acquisitions at Ardurra as quickly as the company finds new businesses to acquire. The chief information officer at the engineering, design, and consulting firm has had his work cut for him recently as the company has acquired some fifteen companies since 2020.
Those acquisitions include Cannon & Cannon, a Knoxville-based civil engineering firm specializing in utility infrastructure, including water, sewer, stormwater, and transportation systems. One hundred employees came under Ardurra’s supervision, and those employees retained their Knoxville, Tennessee, headquarters.
Ardurra further expanded its portfolio by acquiring Janus Research, a Tampa-based cultural resource management firm with four decades of experience in protecting and preserving historical and cultural sites in Florida. The acquisition made Ardurra one of the top three cultural resource management providers in Florida overnight.
The announcement of the acquisition of WK Dickson, a Charlotte-based multidisciplinary infrastructure consulting firm rounds out some of Ardurra’s most recent deals. WK Dickson specializes in airport planning, water resources, civil infrastructure, and utility support. Through this acquisition, 225 employees joined Ardurra and helped the organization continue its Southern expansion in the US.
Ardurra was engaged in so much M&A, they acquired an award for it. The company was honored with the 2025 M&A Best Practices Award by Morrissey Goodale, a national recognition for excellence in acquisitive growth within the AEC industry. The award highlights Ardurra’s “3F framework”—Fit, Future, and Financials—which evaluates potential acquisitions for cultural alignment, growth opportunities, and financial viability. Ardurra’s approach focuses on long-term relationships and people-centric integration.
At present, Ardurra encompasses some 1,850 employees spread out across over 85 offices with headquarters in Miami, Florida. Inorganic growth makes life tough for a CIO. A successful implementation requires integrating disparate IT systems and the rightsizing of application portfolios and proprietary systems. Data migration can sometimes take years, and ensuring data privacy, compliance, and security both during that process and unifying it for both organizations can be a massive hurdle.
But Rodriguez has answered the call. The native of the Dominican Republic says he’s always maintained a “work hard, play hard” mentality. He travels back to the DR as often as he can, but when he’s working, he’s working.
The CIO joined Ardurra initially in an IT director capacity. While the company was growing rapidly, organizational pillars like IT and HR had barely been established. Rodriguez says coming to Ardurra offered him an opportunity to build that he jumped at.
The company had just over 200 employees when he arrived. Things have changed a lot since then. Rodriguez is at the center of the company’s robust, secure IT infrastructure, one the CIO built with the future in mind. The leader says that with every acquisition, the company must integrate systems seamlessly and keep cybersecurity and disaster response at the forefront of their decisions.
When it comes to those integrations, Rodriguez says the human element is both the most important and most challenging part. He focuses on minimizing disruption and anxiety and finding the right project partners for technical specialties that can’t be handled in-house. Vendors and support teams are vetted not just for technical chops but for their ability to mesh with Ardurra’s collaborative and award-winning culture. The CIO sees those relationships as a way to ensure that every interaction in the IT ecosystem feels part of the same family.
The CIO leads a team of eighteen, dispersed from coast to coast. Rodrigeuz is direct, transparent, and relentlessly positive. His door is always open, and he seeks out chances to give his people a chance to grow, be they educational opportunities, stretch roles, or otherwise.
And while this has been the role of a lifetime, Rodriguez doesn’t think his best years are behind him yet.
“I don’t feel that I’ve reached the pinnacle of my career,” the CIO says. “there’s always another summit. As Ardurra grows, I look forward to climbing together, grounded by where I came from and excited for where we’re going next.”
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