Aras "Russ" Memisyazici, M.Sc. Email & Phone Number

Irvine, Ca, Us

London, Gb

Working with Global Enterprise Architecture to establish a federated automated guardrails based reference architecture program globally across all of Aon's technology portfolio.

London, Gb

• Led global projects within the Digital Solutions team to support Aon's initiatives.• Contributed to AI implementation by evaluating OpenAI offerings and establishing an on-prem LLM model.• Currently working on establishing an automated guardrails based reference architecture project.• I am the Chief Technical Architect in charge of the firm's IPaaS initiative. This approach will ensure a uniform data access layer across the disparate systems such that our overall business intelligence data sources can be enriched to enable the firm to offer the best solutions to our customers.• Leading the Enterprise Architecture focus of the firm's current evaluation of Digital Asset Management capabilities. Specifically I am in charge of ensuring reviewed vendors and their offerings are compliant with Aon's standards and that the business requirements are aligned with the technical specifications of the firm's current footprint.Previous Major Accomplishments:• Designed, Architected and led the implementation of the Aon GenAI Wrapper product which decoupled the firm's dependence on SaaS AI providers and enabled product teams to consume AI capabilities in a compliant and secure manner• Designed, Architected and led the implementation of the Aon Authentication Wrapper product which decoupled the firm's dependence on SaaS authentication providers and enabled the flexibility to be able to choose the mechanism as appropriate• Designed, Architected and co-led the implementation of the Aon Common Logging Framework product which established guardrails for the firm' in-house developed solutions to ensure they are standardized and utilizing minimum required logging parameters in order to provide the overall visibility into the firm's development efforts• Designed, Architected and co-led the implementation of Aon's Global Observability Framework in order to enable total visbility across the firm

Wakefield, Mass, Us

Contributing to the Core Project as an expert in DevSecOps and AI with LLMsCo-Lead the Web efforts for the team

San Luis Obispo, Ca, Us

Long Beach, Ca, Us

Attached to Cal State - Long Beach

New York, Ny, Us

Us

In this project my role as their Sr. Cloud/Cyber Architect was to assist AAA with their migration into AWS and other multiple Cloud providers in a cyber-secure manner. The ultimate goal was to enable the organization to migrate their mainframe based workloads in the Cloud. As an Automation evangelist I also held brown-bag luncheons where I taught Python, Ansible and various Cloud concepts to the team members in the Infrastructure group.As the lead contact for all things Cloud within the group I helped establish the Cloud Services team and built the initial fully-IaaC based CI/CD pipeline driven hosting environment for the Enterprise in a NIST 800-53, PCI-DSS, SOXLEY, HIPAA and TQS#5 compliant manner

Dublin, Va, Us

Teaching ITN-170 Intro to Linux in Fall '19

San Francisco, California, Us

Blacksburg, Va, Us

Link: http://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2016/10/it_arasmemisyazici.htmlSummary of Responsibilities:- Defined needs and developed technical strategy for the Virginia Cyber Range.- Personally built the initial offering of the Range in 6 weeks time to meet initial deadline set by Governor's office.- Established and lead a team to work on the research, development, and roll-out of the individual exercises and scenarios on a cloud-based infrastructure to further the range’s mission.- Established and led a multi-talented team to build the infrastructure 100% Cloud-Provider agnostically across AWS, Azure and GCP.- Developed the ITN-170 VCCS track for the Range and contributed content- Taught CSC-110 and ITN-170 tracks using the Range- Trained and developed sysadmins and students into DevSecOps engineers and developers- Built CISPA compliant networking solutions to accommodate high-school student usage

Blacksburg, Va, Us

Promoted to Sr. Systems Engineer in charge of systems team at Virginia Tech's Office of Research.

Blacksburg, Va, Us

Work as the SysAdmin and ISO for the Office of the Vice President for Research.

Blacksburg, Va, Us

Worked in various departments as IT grunt and worked my way upto my current position.

I was part of the team who developed a searchable real-time reservation engine that was partnered with Microsoft's Expedia. I was in charge of developing in ASP.Net as well as overall IT Security.

Master'S Degree, Information Technology W/ Focus In Cyber Security, Ai & Ml, Healthcare Data Mgmt

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Interdisciplinary Studies - Cs & Math

Diploma, Math, Science