Christian Orias
Managing Director for Strategic IT Management Practice and Consultant
Cogniseed Consulting Inc.
Christian Orias is a Management Consultant specializing in IT Service Management, Information Security Management, Quality Management, Project Management and Process Improvement. He is the Managing Director of Cogniseed Consulting, Inc. and an independent member of the Audit Committee of the Philippine Electricity Market Corporation.
Being a Consultant and Trainer, he has assisted numerous companies with their ISO Certification initiatives and helped hundreds of professionals obtain their ITIL, Project Management Professional (PMP) and Lean Six Sigma certifications. He honed his expertise while working for top-tier Fortune 500 companies, such as, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and United Health Group.
He has 11 professional certifications – Certified ITIL Expert, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB), Certified Manager of Quality & Organizational Excellence (CMQ-OE), and a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Management Engineering from the University of Santo Tomas. He co-authored two (2) U.S. Patents and four (4) Defensive Intellectual Property Publications in the fields of Semiconductor Electronic Packaging Technology and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology.