Aliso Viejo, California, United States

🇺🇸 Aliso Viejo is a city in the San Joaquin Hills of southern Orange County, California. It became Orange County's 34th city in 2001, the only city in Orange County to be incorporated since 2000. It is bordered by the cities of Laguna Beach on the west and south-west, Laguna Hills on the east, Laguna Niguel on the south-east, and Laguna Woods on the north.

Economy Companies located in Aliso Viejo include: • 3tera, a cloud computing software vendor • AND1, a shoe and apparel company • Buy.com, an online retailer • Centon Electronics, Inc., a manufacturer of computer memory and flash-based storage devices • Fluor, an international construction contractor for petrochemical, infrastructure, and environmental projects, headquartered in Aliso Viejo until it was relocated to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex suburb of Irving, Texas in March 2006. Some divisions still reside in Aliso Viejo. • Ketel One, a vodka company • Marie Callender's, a restaurant chain • Microsoft's office after the purchase of DATAllegro • Nimbus Data, a network storage systems and software company • Pacific Life, an insurance company • QLogic, a network storage manufacturer • Quest Software (formerly Dell Software), a software manufacturer • Smith Micro Software, a software developer • Tamiya America, US subsidiary of the manufacturer of model cars Tamiya Corporation, headquartered in Aliso Viejo until it was relocated to Irvine, CA. • UST Global, an IT, Technology and Digital Transformation company • USWeb, an Internet marketing company • Microsemi Corporation, a semiconductor company • Sony Interactive Entertainment, a multinational video game and digital entertainment company • Carbine Studios, a video game developer, partnered with NCSOFT • Metagenics, a medical manufacturing company • Meta Solar, a solar energy installation company • Vertos Medical, a manufacturer of surgical instruments used to perform minimally invasive procedures • Ambry Genetics, a health care genetic lab, a subsidiary of parent company Konica Minolta.

Top employers According to the city's 2016 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city include: 1 United Parcel Service; 2 Pacific Life; 3 Capistrano Unified School District; 4 Fluor; 5 Quest Software; 6 QLogic; 7 Renaissance Hotels ClubSport Aliso Viejo; 8 Pepsi Beverages Company; 9 Smith Micro Software; 10 Merit Property Management; 11 Buy.com; 12 Lennar; 13 Target Corporation; 14 Bausch & Lomb; 15 Ambry Genetics; 16 The Covington; 17 LenSx Laser; 18 Lowe's.

Education • Saddleback College (Mission Viejo, California) • Irvine Valley College (Irvine, California) • Orange Coast College (Costa Mesa, California) • Soka University of America.