Intelligence. Purpose. Mission.

115+

Combined Years

$860M+

Portfolio Value

15+

Federal Agencies

100+

Modernization Initiatives

Tonya Lawson

Principal Consultant — Business Strategy & Digital Transformation

Tonya Lawson is a technology executive and principal consultant with over 30 years of experience leading enterprise digital transformation, program management, and business strategy across federal government and commercial sectors. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Old Dominion University, a Masters Certificate in Information Systems from the University of Denver, and a Business Executive Certificate from the Dartmouth Tuck School of Business. As founder of Lawson Consulting and former Chief Operating Officer at Maxsold, Inc., she has generated and supported contracts valued between $1M and $100M, led organizations of 250 employees across international operations, and driven measurable outcomes including a 30% increase in Net Promoter Score and 35% improvement in employee engagement. Her federal portfolio includes direct engagements with the IRS, U.S. Army, NIH/NCATS, HUD, USDA, and state transportation agencies, as well as technical account leadership on a $60M ERP contract with the U.S. Navy during her tenure at SAP Public Sector. She brings COGNOSCERE deep expertise in intelligent automation, Lean Six Sigma process transformation, ERP modernization, and go-to-market strategy for AI and automation solutions, and previously served as Principal Consultant at COGNOSCERE from 2020 to 2023.

Pierre Travis

Principal Consultant — Enterprise Infrastructure Strategy & AI-Driven Observability

Pierre Travis is a technology strategist and enterprise infrastructure architect with over 20 years of experience transforming how organizations monitor, predict, and respond to system behavior at scale. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics with a minor in Mathematics from Dillard University, with post-graduate studies in Mechanical Engineering and Numerical Computational Analysis. He has served as CTO directing global teams of 60+ technical professionals, and as Director of Information Technology for the State of Georgia Department of Health, where he led construction of a state health data center and managed the Jimmy Carter Center Hardware Task Force. His federal and defense portfolio spans the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, NASA, U.S. Postal Service, and state Medicaid and social services systems, supported by active Secret and Trusted security clearances. What distinguishes his practice is the application of AI-driven predictive monitoring to enterprise operations — at the VA/DoD, he engineered anomaly detection models using AppDynamics baselining that reduced false-positive alerts by 90% and cut mean-time-to-recovery by 95%, establishing AI-predictive strategies as the operational standard. He has completed over 100 modernization initiatives across financial services, healthcare, and government, pioneered a five-level observability maturity model adopted across global divisions at John Deere Financial, and reduced critical production incidents from nine per month to fewer than one while cutting outage mitigation time by 97%. An ITILv3/v4 and IBM Certified Engineer with training in Deming Total Quality Management and Oil and Gas Industry Operations from Duke University, he brings COGNOSCERE the rare combination of infrastructure-scale technical depth and C-suite strategic vision required to architect intelligent, self-aware enterprise systems.

Naeem Gitonga

Senior MLOps Engineer — Systems Programmer & Database Engineer

Naeem Gitonga is a Senior MLOps Engineer with deep expertise in cloud-native infrastructure, AI/ML pipeline architecture, and production-scale system delivery. He holds an MBA from the Georgia Institute of Technology and brings hands-on experience leading engineering teams at Pluralsight, A Cloud Guru, and Cricket Wireless, where he built and optimized technology platforms serving millions of users. His technical portfolio includes designing CI/CD pipelines, deploying vector database clusters, and orchestrating containerized workloads across AWS and Kubernetes environments. He has achieved 99%+ platform uptime through automated canary deployments and delivered measurable annual infrastructure cost savings through serverless architecture migration — bringing production-level operational rigor to platforms serving millions of users. A speaker on scaling Retrieval-Augmented Generation in production environments, he brings the operational rigor required to move AI systems from proof-of-concept to mission-ready deployment.

Arthur Billingsley III

Lead Software Engineer — UI/UX Developer & AI Agent Architect

Arthur Billingsley III is a software engineer with over 14 years of experience delivering full-stack solutions across healthcare, IoT, defense, and enterprise AI domains. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Norfolk State University and has held engineering roles at Forcura, StormSensor, Atria, and TrustedQA, building systems that operate under the compliance demands of HIPAA, DoD STIG, and federal security frameworks. At COGNOSCERE LLC, he leads AI agent development using LangChain, AutoGPT, and custom orchestration frameworks, designing and optimizing LLM prompt architectures and Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelines for context-aware decision support. His work achieved 99.9% system uptime across 50+ integrations, and his automation of deployment processes reduced provisioning time from four hours to fifteen minutes. A CompTIA Security+ certified engineer with published research in IoT human-computer interaction (Springer HCI Conference), he brings the intersection of secure systems engineering and modern AI development to every engagement.

David Billingsley

Customer Success & Sales Associate · COGNOSCERE LLC

David Billingsley brings six years of technology-enabled operations and customer lifecycle management to COGNOSCERE's subscriber engagement function. His background spans enterprise CRM administration, revenue optimization through strategic account management, and cross-functional workflow design — experience built across high-volume operational environments where system reliability, process discipline, and customer retention are measured daily, not quarterly. At COGNOSCERE, David manages the subscriber activation lifecycle from onboarding through retention, ensuring every CIFaaS subscriber reaches first-value delivery within the 48-hour activation window. He oversees CRM operations, subscriber health monitoring, and tier-upgrade conversations — translating usage patterns into targeted recommendations that connect subscribers with the CIFaaS tier and engagement package that matches their intelligence requirements. His data-driven approach to customer engagement draws directly from his track record of exceeding performance targets through systematic analysis of customer behavior and strategic solution alignment. David's operational discipline — developed through managing enterprise systems, leading cross-functional teams, and implementing quality control protocols that maintained zero-incident records across high-throughput operations — is applied to the CIFaaS delivery pipeline where accuracy, timeliness, and consistent subscriber experience are non-negotiable. As the CIFaaS subscriber base scales, David's role expands to include channel partner onboarding support, engagement package coordination, and the subscriber satisfaction metrics that drive retention and referral conversion.

Core competencies: Subscriber lifecycle management · CRM operations · Revenue optimization · 48-hour activation oversight · Tier and package recommendation · Subscriber health scoring · Channel partner coordination · Delivery quality assurance