Selected Verizon recognitions highlighting customer impact, security leadership, collaboration, architecture influence, and program delivery.
Featured appreciation
Recognized for extra effort, leadership in architecture discussions, managing multiple workstreams with consultants and stakeholders, and helping the team explore AI tools.
Priti Agarwal • Associate Director, Technology Strategy
Living the Credo • 2022
Recognized for exceptional performance and improving frontline employee experience in support of the Verizon promise.
Sadullah Syed • Associate Director, Software Development
Personal Commitment • 2024
Recognized for consistent commitment to Verizon core values and maintaining a high security standard for Omni Applications.
Mary Istafanous • Associate Director, Software Development
Quality / Process Improvement • 2024
Recognized for fixing a long-standing security defect affecting sales support productivity, fraud alerts, and VBG health checks.
Mary Istafanous • Associate Director, Software Development
Leadership • 2024
Recognized for a leading role in the Bill Pay Kiosk re-platforming, optimizing the application, reducing footprint, and improving maintainability.
Mary Istafanous • Associate Director, Software Development
Teamwork • 2025
Recognized for collaboration and teamwork across delivery and engineering efforts.
Mary Istafanous • Associate Director, Software Development
Teamwork • 2025
Recognized for guiding ACT123 into a quickly maturing development team while enabling the team to establish its own voice and delivery momentum.
Allison Mckaney • Associate Director, Experience Management
Reviewed 75+ technical papers across AI/ML, energy, web, and cloud domains, including IIPEM 2025, DSIS 2025, ICWCIE 2026, QCECTS 2026, ICBDA 2026, IMED 2026, AICCoNS 2026, ICAD 2026, and others.
Contributed as Technical Program Committee member in international conferences supporting paper evaluation, technical quality, and program curation.
