Gary Neshanian
2336 Elden Ave. #G
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
Resume 949.485.5840
consulting@gnish.com

Profile   Project Management Professional® and Business Systems Analyst, with extensive technical experience. 
Accomplished knowledge, BS/CSE, PMP®, and hands-on experience of information systems management, and gap remediation with business best practices and information technology methodologies.
Expertise in full systems development life cycles and methodologies. Effective communicator and analyst with business and technical organizations. Responsible manager and integrator of infrastructure operations staff, facilities and services.

roles & skills
  • Project Manager · 10 years – full lifecycle processes, definition, analysis, planning, implement, delivery
  • Business Analyst · 10 years – needs and definition, client analysis/CRM/RFP, risks/ROI, ISO, SOX/SAS
  • Systems Engineer · 7 years – aerospace, commercial, program, integrate, deliver, SDLC/CM, DRP, QA
  • Architect – legacy and client/server enterprises, services, programming, database, and security
  • Integrator – electronic business and web systems, vendor/off-the-shelf, custom/programmed solutions
  • Manager – software development teams, operations staffing and infrastructure, call center and help desks
Experience
2000+ Project Manager · Business Systems Analyst (contract)

Nish Consulting · Costa Mesa, CA

(see Portfolio)

Project Managed lifecycle design, implementation, and delivery of enterprise and web solutions. Authored project plans, WBS, SOW, SLA, DRP and other operations procedures. Analyzed/identified business needs, specifications, and requirements/RFPs. Integrated third party and custom solutions. Audited SOX/SAS compliance and remediated gap solutions. (Portfolio contains detailed client solutions)
– Project lifecycle methodologies · Office · Design graphics · Programming · Web/Internet services · Unix –


02/98-01/99 Sr. Systems/Project Engineer · Business Analyst (Sun VAR)

Acclaim Technology · Irvine, CA

Project Engineered and analyzed e-business needs, project plans, risks and ROI. Integrated enterprise client/servers, e-commerce services and applications. Programmed advanced client needs. Certified by Sun Microsystems, and trained by CISCO, Veritas, Vignette, OpenMarket, ColdFusion and e-business partners.
– Sun/Solaris©, MS/NT · Apache, Netscape, MS-IIS · HTML, Java, ASP, scripts, C++, Perl, Unix shell –

07/96-02/98 Systems Manager · Business Integrator (edi)

Cincom Systems · Irvine, CA

Managed regional computer resources, web and infrastructure services. Project Managed office and corporate network access. Integrated enterprise client/servers and CRM/EDI. Customer support and sales staff trainer.
– Unix, MS/NT · Web, Application servers · MRP-ERP-Oracle · C++, Unix shells –

10/94-07/96 Systems/Project Engineer · Network Integrator (network)

Computer Associates · Huntington Beach, CA

Project Engineered and analyzed business and network requirements. Integrated enterprise and network servers, automation and security. Technical Consultant of network and configuration management software. 
– Unix, MS/NT · LAN/WAN · CA/Unicenter-Sybase, HP/Openview, Sun/NetManager, SNMP · C, Unix shell –

05/89-10/94 Systems/Project Engineer · Enterprise Integrator (enterprise)

Data General · Irvine, CA

Project Engineered and analyzed business and enterprise requirements. Integrated client/server, data and application services. Technical Consultant of installation, programming, performance tuning and trainings. 
– DG/Unix©/RAID, MS/NT PCs, LAN · Federal-Commercial/Financial-Medical Applications · C, Unix shell –

04/86-05/89 Systems Manager · Software Team Leader (aerospace)

Rockwell Collins · Santa Ana, CA

Managed development/test facilities and staff, mentored and trained operators. Software Team Leader and QA of programmers for MILSTAR, with Secret/ComSec clearances. – DEC/VAX, DG/AOS, Unix · FORTRAN –

06/82-04/86 Systems Administrator · Software Engineer (aerospace)

Ford Aerospace · Newport Beach, CA

Programmed R&D systems in the Imaging Processing Lab/Advanced Development Org. and DIVAD program, with security clearance. – DEC/VAX, DG/AOS · Ada, Atlas, C, COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal, Assembly –

Education & Affiliations
1980-1985 Bachelors of Science · Computer Science Engineering

California State University · Long Beach, CA

1986-1991 Extension courses · Computer Science

University of California · Irvine, CA

1991-1998 Sun Microsystems (C2K,E10K,Java) - Data General (Unix)

Courses and Certifications

2010 Project Management Professional · PMP®

Project Management Institute, Inc.

  CSULB-Alumni* · IEEE · PMI/PMP-OC · AIP-OC · SIA-OC · WTF · Toastmasters