Christian Zacariassen

Executive Vice President - Chief Information Officer at Amtrak

IT executive with more than 25 years of professional experience within transportation, life sciences, manufacturing, and biotech industries. I am highly accomplished and driven professional with a track record of building customer focused IT teams, within areas of architecture and engineering, operational excellence, program management, information security, contracts management and service management. I am an inspirational thought leader with strong business sense, I have strategic vision and extensive technical background, that delivers information technology that will drive change throughout complex fast paced organizations. Specialties • Strategic Planning • Business Relationship Management • Merger & Acquisitions (Technology Integration) • Organizational Leadership • Financial Management for IT Services • Program and Project Management • Technology Development and Delivery • Technology Operations • Application Support • Information Security and Compliance (SOX, PCI, FDA, HIPAA) • Datacenter Construction, Relocation and Consolidation • Disaster Recovery and Risk Management • Partner & Vendor Relationship Management • Change Management • Process Improvement