Brian Kowalczyk Email & Phone Number

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Lead technology evaluations for some of the major assessments for Verizon, such as Enterprise API Security, Developer Productivity, SRE Tooling, and Generative AI Pair Programming
• Responsible for ensuring home-grown applications are following advanced cloud-native practices
• Lead the creation of Enterprise Strategic initiatives for high-priority items of the Enterprise Architecture department such as SCM platform governance, API architecture, and automated application architecture insights
• Lead the creation of an automated solution to reduce the amount of time it takes an engineer to validate TMF API conformance from days to minutes
• Designed Gitlab governance solution which has enabled us to inventory x% of codebases on the Enterprise Gitlab Platform
• Successfully support the Iconic team in understanding application architecture for +20 critical applications to the Verizon Consumer Group to help improve application performance and stability

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Team lead for four critical workstreams of the Architecture Governance and Enablement Team
• Led budgetary management of three million dollars and worked with financial partners to make sure we were in good financial standings
• Led various technical evaluations across the enterprise to identify target technology stacks
• Established and maintained a strategic roadmap for an automated application to support architecture governance initiatives
• Designed an automated governance tool that leverages advanced cloud-native practices (serverless & containerization) to ensure minimal operational overhead and cost
• Own and drive backlog grooming and management, prioritize user stories, create acceptance criteria, and drive testing and delivery

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Verizon Leadership Development Program 3rd rotation
• Team lead for four critical workstreams of the Architecture Governance and Enablement Team
• Led budgetary management of three million dollars and worked with financial partners to make sure we were in good financial standings
• Led various technical evaluations across the enterprise to identify target technology stacks
• Established and maintained a strategic roadmap for an automated application to support architecture governance initiatives
• Designed an automated governance tool that leverages advanced cloud-native practices (serverless & containerization) to ensure minimal operational overhead and cost

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Verizon Leadership Development Program 2nd rotation
• Developed and automated a security strategy for an enterprise-scale container platform
• Identified a way to find containers deployed outside of the security guardrails
• Created documentation for container security tools
• Assessed and created policies for third-party compliance tools
• Developed tooling to ensure policy consistently within the different development environments

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Verizon Leadership Development Program 1st rotation
• Consulted and collaborated with development teams to facilitate application migration into the public cloud by building a well-architected framework
• Led group sessions to facilitate AWS Certification training for application teams.
• Constructed blueprints for application teams that enabled faster migration into the public cloud
• Presented at AWS re:Invent Cloud Conference 2017 (Subject - Importance of Training)
• Created an automated serverless deployment pipeline

Utica, NY, US

• Provided real-time IT assistance via the help desk web interface, phone and email; including triaging the tickets and making the appropriate notifications to the individual

Utica, NY, US

• Responsible for managing individual needs of the residents and ensure a smooth transition into campus life
• Coordinate and facilitate activities promoting a sense of collaboration that allows residents to work together
• Generate and maintain administrative reports for the Resident Director on a regular basis

Utica, NY, US

• Allocate resources and provide guidance to ensure success on campus
• Monitor clubs and ensure they are following requirements established by Student Association
• Host weekly meetings with club treasurers

Utica, NY, US

• Provide leadership at campus sponsored events
• Manage the organizations social media pages
• Promote upcoming events around campus

Utica, NY, US

• Provide leadership at campus sponsored events
• Plan campus wide activities and contract negotiations
• Promote upcoming events around campus

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Developed, optimized, and maintained software within Verizon’s data management systems
• Participated in weekly planning meetings and conference calls in conjunction with global teams
• Mentored high school interns - developing both their technical and leadership skills
• Created weekly status updates on projects to senior leaders

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Developed, optimized, and maintained software within Verizon’s data management systems
• Participated in weekly planning meetings and conference calls in conjunction with global teams
• Created weekly status updates on projects to senior leaders

• Maintain order and safety in the pool area of the club, ensure the satisfaction of members - answering member questions, enforce policies, rules and regulations
• Corrected and reported unsafe conditions to General Manager
• Manage the daily operations of the pool including facility maintenance and lifeguard scheduling
• Responsible for administration of first aid as needed

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Technology Management

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer And Information Science & Computer Information Systems