Gardner's new position appears to be the same as the old one, just with a new name. So probably no difference there. The interesting hire is the CFO. Her hire hints at two things: One she's an experienced private sector hire (CFO at REI) so she may be bringing sense to Amtrak's accounting. Secondly, the release heavily mentions her role in procurements at REI, which to me hints at Amtrak is planning to get heavily into buying new equipment (aka procurements).
Gardner's new position appears to be the same as the old one, just with a new name. So probably no difference there. The interesting hire is the CFO. Her hire hints at two things: One she's an experienced private sector hire (CFO at REI) so she may be bringing sense to Amtrak's accounting. Secondly, the release heavily mentions her role in procurements at REI, which to me hints at Amtrak is planning to get heavily into buying new equipment (aka procurements).
I doubt she'll straighten out the looney "allocation" based accounting in its entirety, but we can at least hope for better tracking of parts purchases, equipment maintenance, MOW purchases, etc (it is currently just flat-out guesswork on Amtrak's part what route and what account to assign this stuff to).
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