That still is contrived as heck. You don't just stomp several dozen interstellar mega-corporation out of the ground in thirty years, I need not remind you that humanity is one the weakest power economicallyin Mass Effect.
Furthermore, Jack Harper was nothing but a disillusioned and disgruntled gun-for-hire at the end of the First contact war. How such a man could aquire the initial money, resources, technology, intellect and manpower needed to start his conspiracy that rivals the current establishement without ever being noticed. Especially when you come from a society which is still so relatively isolated from the rest of interstellar society. Mind you, Cerberus was doing grand operation some twenty years before ME1, only about five years af First contact War, Timewise it makes not sense at all.
The best way I can call it is disproportionate, realisticaly there wouldn't be any Human enterprises operating on a galactic scale, the Turian wouldn't construct a Stealth ship a species that only appeared on the galactic theatre twenty terran years ago (which is nothing by council standards) and there would be no Human splinter group that rivals not only the entire goverment, (and by that, all governments of earth) but the near united galaxy as well.
Shamus Young wrote some excellent pieces on Cerberus in his Mass Effect recap series, just explaining how the dumb the whole ordeal is:
As noted, Jack Harper found the Star Forge.
It is known. 
All hail Darth TIM!
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