Gary Neshanian
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
Resume
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Profile
Project Manager, and experienced Analyst; expertise in communication, management, governance, and development; program organization, governance risk compliance, cyber security, software/web development, and infrastructure strategy. Senior Program/Projects Manager with PMO and analysis expertise, over fifteen years experience, in Southern California.
• Knowledge – establishing and improving PMOs; with PM methodologies/certifications, and better business practices
• Expertise – in strategic planning; of infrastructure, critical problem solutions, cost reductions, and gap/risk remediation
• Experience – with developing; enterprise software/web systems, governance risk compliance/auditing, and cyber security
• Communicator – among executive/business stakeholders, and technical/development teams; from scheduling to reporting
• Clientele - CRC (Oxy) Hyundai (Kia) Boeing First American Title Capital Group PacifiCare Pacific Life •
Skills
Project Management – Project Management Professional (PMP) Project Management Institute (waterfall-PMBOK), Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Scrum Alliance (Agile), and Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science Engineering. Experience in project management organizations (PMO), methodologies, improvements, strategic planning, and delivery.
• Methodologies – Waterfall (PMBOK) Agile (Scrum) Hybrid (Kanban) Lean (BASP) Rational (RUP) SDLC
• Planning – resource (ERP) disaster recovery (DRP) process improvement (BPI) strategic planning (SP) DevOps
• Infrastructure – enterprise (ERP) data center (DCIM/ITIL) service (SLA) procedure (SOP) information (DBI/EDI)
Business Analysis – systems analysis and improvement (PMO, GRC), vendor (OEM) and third-party (VAR) integration. Experience in customer support, enterprise resource/system engineering, ecommerce-dotcom. Expertise in governance risk compliance and cyber security, post-millennium. Effective organizational and process maturity improvements.
• Business – systems (BSA) process model (BPM) reengineering (BPR) metrics interest (BMI) intelligence (BI)
• Governance – EU (GDPR) Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Statement Audit Standards (SAS70) healthcare (HIPAA) GRC
• Process – management (PMO) maturity (CMMI) improvement (SPICE) change/quality (CM/QA) security (Cyber)
Education - academic certifications
Bachelor Science • Computer Science Engineering BSc/CSULB
California State University Long Beach
Project Management Professional • PMP/PMI 2010
Project Management Institute, Inc.
Certified Scrum Master • CSM/SA 2011
Scrum Alliance, Inc.
LinkedIn Google Facebook • PMI/PMP-OC CSM/SA U/EH • OCTP IEEE Toastmasters • CSULB-Alumni
Experience - recent (major projects)
Dec. 2017 - current
Project Manager
Nish Consulting Southern, CA minor projects • direct clients
Providing consulting services to direct clients - short projects less than 6 months, available for full-time.
• Stanley Certified Solar IC ASI - business/marketing plan, long term strategic plans, web portal-3 design.
• ETA Advertising - project management methodology migration Waterfall (PMBOK) - Agile/Scrum (Trello).
• Consults - GDPR and American manufacturing Communication plans with millennial programming teams
Strategic Plans Waterfall (PMBOK) Agile (Scrum) web-ecommerce (web portal-3) • Nish Consulting
Apr. 2016 - Nov. 2017
Program/Projects Manager
California Resources Corp. (CRC-Oxy) Long Beach, CA energy • pmo erp strategic planning
Program managed End User Services infrastructure. Developed departmental dashboard and service portal. Authored strategic executive status-metric reports (ESR). Improved PMO standards and CMMI.
• Reduced infrastructure costs and re-engineering build out (ROI), after Occidental/Oxy corporation spin-off.
• Scaled enterprise services, modernization, and strategic planning for new CRC corporation.
• Facilitated vendor consolidation, negotiation/re-contracting, of new corporate services contracts (Telecom).
• Mentored and trained project coordinators in remote locations, requisite for executive status reports (ESR).
Strategic Plans Waterfall (PMS) Hybrid (Card View) Agile (Scrum) Smartsheet Exec-Metrics (ESR)
Jan. 2014 - Oct. 2015
Program/Projects Manager
Hyundai (HAEA/HISNA) Fountain Valley, CA automotive • pmo grc infrastructure
Program managed Kia infrastructure system (KMA), Hyundai web (HMA), and Car loan security (HCA). Authored executive status-metric reports (ESR). Audited business units, and SecOps. Improved PMO-CMMI.
• Scaled data warehousing infrastructure, for regional automotive support centers (Hyundai-North America).
• Led electric-car dashboard/portal (KIA), vehicle charging stations (SiriusXM), and customer services (Yelp).
• Led web advertising (HyundaiUSA.com), sports campaigns and customer support, with on/offshore teams.
• Led auto-loan (Hyundai Capital America) process, tracking, and management system governance (GRC).
• Deployed cyber security (SecOps) project with third party vendor, previously uncompleted (RSA, SSO).
Business Analysis Waterfall (Stagegate) Hybrid (Kanban) Agile (Scrum) SecOp (AppScan/Pen-Test)
May 2013 - Sep. 2013
Project Manager
First American Title Santa Ana, CA financial • software release management grc mortgage/title
Managed release software development and deployments. Reviewed and authorized major/minor, and weekly software, from development (AppDev-Ops), through production (SCM), including change approvals (CAB).
• Managed mortgage transaction system (EDI), and coordination of remote/offshore software teams (DevOps).
• Assured quality (QA) of remote software testing (GRC), and local rollouts with rollback contingencies.
System Analysis Waterfall (PMBOK) Agile (Scrum) Software Change (SCM/CAB) Compliance (GRC)
Nov. 2010 - Apr. 2011
Project Manager
Boeing (Defense) Seal Beach, CA aerospace • pmo data-center consolidation infrastructure
Cost reductions by re-scoping application migration, remote server virtualization, relicensing, and central IT for Application Consolidation Modernization org. Authored plans, burn downs, and schedules with BASP/Lean.
• Reduced cost by vendor contract renegotiation (hardware), and license consolidations (software).
• Increased data reliability and efficiency, through centralization of remote IT centers.
Data Analysis Boeing Agile Software Process/Lean (BASP) Business Metrics of Interest (BMI)
June 2011 - Apr. 2013
Program/Projects Manager
Inspection Connection (ASI 09-10) Newport Beach, CA ebusiness • web portal-2 Nish Consulting
Updated business/marketing plan from 09-10, longer term strategic plans, and enterprise technical designs.
• Increased revenue by reengineering and data mining of second generation web/portal
Feb. 2009 - Aug 2010
Program/Projects Manager
Automotive Solution Inc (IC 11-13) Newport Beach, CA ebusiness • web portal-1 Nish Consulting
Authored business/marketing plan, long term strategic plans, and enterprise technical documentation.
• Architected enterprise, strategic plan and design of first generation web/portal application
May 2008 - Sep. 2008
Project Manager
Boeing (Commercial) Long Beach, CA aircraft • pmo data-management infrastructure
Authored SDLC procedures and management reports. Audited project controls of task management process. Developed project tasks using Fujitsu (Macroscope) methodology, and reports for eMOD organization.
• Reduced cost plan for regional eMOD data servers' migration to corporate facility and services.
• Reduced disaster recovery and data error risks for electronic maintenance and operational data system.
Data Analysis Fujitsu (Macroscope) Customer Quality Support SDLC/CM standards
Jan. 2007 - Aug. 2007
Project Lead
Capital Group Brea, CA financial • grc sas70 compliance
Reduction maintenance costs and compliance gaps with standardization of software development procedures. Authored Statement on Auditing Standards-No. 70 reports and IT SAS-70 compliance documentation.
• Audited Standards (SAS) No. 70 for general computer controls of PMO and business units.
• Developed Waterfall (phased) and Agile (iterative) methodology plan and standards for ongoing governance.
Business Analysis Waterfall (phased) Agile (iterative) SDLC/CM standards
Nov. 2005 - Jan. 2006
Project Manager
PacifiCare Cypress, CA healthcare • pmo email data-warehouse infrastructure
Authored project plan and vendor specifications. Managed IS compliance with legal requirements of email support for court litigation, and SOX/HIPAA compliance. Coordinated-liaison email archive project vendor.
• Reduced search/retrieval and litigation costs, through archival and indexing of corporate emails.
• Led vendor selection through RFI release, RFP reviews, and vendor RFQ selection/award process.
Business Analysis Waterfall (PMBOK) RFI-RFP-RFQ VAR selection Project Planning
April 2004 ~ Nov. 2006
Governance Risk Compliance/Auditor
SOX-404/SAS-70 corporations Southern, CA financial • grc sox/sas compliance
Reduced compliance gap risks (GRC), increased efficiency through audit, remediation, and procedures. Authored Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) 404 and Statement Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 70 reports, including Narratives, Risk Control Matrices, and IT audit reports, through remediation for governance compliance. Delivered gap/failure remediation of SDLC/CM systems and methodologies, for clients in various industries.
• Audited SOX/SAS70 general computer controls and business unit applications for COBIT/COSO conformity.
• Authored systems policy and practices standardization, for ongoing governance and compliance (GRC).
• Clientele: Ameriquest (mortgage), Ducommun Inc. (DTI, DAS) (aero), First Consulting Group (health), -
- Boeing (aero), Smart&Final (retail), 99cent (retail), Sparta (aero), Impac (mortgage), Mazda (auto).
Rational (RUP) Niku-Clarity PVCS-Tracker PeopleSoft Lotus Word (Narrative) Excel (RCM/Test)