Gary Neshanian
2336 Elden Ave. #G,
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
Biography
linkedin.com/in/garyneshanian
949.485.5840
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Gary Neshanian lives in Orange County, after graduating with BSc from Cal State Long Beach - Computer Science Engineer, was born in Los Angeles, and grew up in its south bay attending LA-Unified.


•  Systems programmer, in aerospace during college (-1990) 
  ·  System Administrator and Software Engineer, at Ford Aerospace '82, on the DIVAD tank and ADO/Sidewinders.
   Graduated on to a software team leader and development systems manager
  ·  Systems Manager and Software Team Leader, at Rockwell Collins '86, on the Milstar satellite program.
  ·  Systems Engineer and Consultant, at Adaptive Digital Systems '88, on intelligence signal processing units.

•  Enterprise architect, during the internet dawn and ecommerce-dot.com decade (-2000)
   Sales engineer and analyst, for OEMs
  ·  Systems Engineer, at Data General '90 '92, computers.
  ·  Technical Support, at Kofax '91, imaging products.
  ·  Technical Consultant, at Computer Associates '94, business system applications.
  ·  Technical Support Specialist, at Cincom '96, financial services applications.
   Systems engineer and integrator, for VARs 
  ·  Technical Support, at New Dimension '96, enterprise applications.
  ·  Systems Engineer, at True Software '97, development applications.
  ·  Senior Systems Engineer, at Acclaim Technology '98, a Sun Microsystems/Solaris VAR.
  ·  Systems engineer, at Open Market '99, e-business systems.

•  Organizational manager, post millennium, also conducting governance, compliance, and remediations (2000+) 
    PMP and CSM certified for PMO, Y2K issues, SOX/SAS audits, Governance Risk Compliance, and Cyber Ops.
  ·  Project Management – CRC · Hyundai · First American · Boeing · Capital Group · Pacific Life-Annuities · 
     PacifiCare · Toyota Motor Company · Sparta Inc. · NovaStar · Children & Families Com-OC.
  ·  Business Analysis –
Ameriquest · Avaya · Boeing · Conexant Systems Inc. · Ducommun (DTI · DAS) ·
     First Consulting Group · Envision Group · Salk Institute · Shipper.com · Smart&Final · 99cent.
  ·  Business Process Reengineering – American Airlines · Canadian Auto Club · Edwards-AFB · Long Bch Bank ·
     Koll-Property · OC-Register · PageNet · St. Mary-Medical Center · Tektronix · Texaco-UCP.

Project Manager and Analyst; technical leadership, business analytics, methodical development, and strategic solutions. PMO evangelist and methodology advocate of optimization, best fit organizational strategies, and cross-functionality. Expertise in organizational governance/GRC, Cyber-Security, development/DevOps, infrastructure/ERP strategic planning.

Education - academic · certifications
Bachelor Science Computer Science Engineering · BSc/CSULB · 1985

California State University Long Beach

Project Management Professional • PMP/PMI · 2010

Project Management Institute, Inc.

Certified Scrum Master • CSM/SA · 2011

Scrum Alliance, Inc.

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