Bill Zielinski is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the City of Dallas, Texas where he directs IT operations for the 9th largest city in the United States, serving a population of more than 1.3 million people.

Most recently, Mr. Zielinski was the Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Information Technology Category (ITC) in GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) where he managed a portfolio of government-wide IT acquisition contracts providing more than $25 billion in IT products and services from more than 5,000 providers to government at a Federal, State and Local level.

Mr. Zielinski formerly served as the Acting Unit Chief for Agency Oversight in the Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer (OCIO) in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). There he provided oversight of the Federal Government’s Information Technology Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) process on behalf of the Federal CIO. The Federal CIO is responsible for providing guidance on the formulation and oversight of an annual IT investment portfolio in excess of $85 billion.

Additionally, he has served as the Chief Information Officer for the Social Security Administration (SSA), where he was responsible for the delivery of IT solutions that allowed the Agency to effectively manage more than $800 billion in annual benefits to more than 60 million people around the world.