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Los Angeles, CA
Posted:
April 02, 2024

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DR. DAVID SERENA

AN EXPERIENCED, ACCOMPLISHED TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE AND LEADER

Camarillo, California 747-***-**** ad4qos@r.postjobfree.com EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

An experienced, driven, and accomplished Technology Executive and Leader, with a wealth of experience while working for leading, high-profile companies and organizations. Has led diverse teams, has developed new, innovative processes and products, and sees all initiatives to their successful fruition. SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Strong background in many areas including technology program management, strategic planning, team leading, project management, new program and process development and deployment, and customer relations.

Hard-working and driven, while highly-experienced in all aspects of technology leadership, has led many successful initiatives, and meets with the highest in organizational and project expectations.

Adept in establishing and cultivating successful, long-term client and industry relationships, and is firmly committed to the timely provision of the highest levels of technology innovation, services and support. CORE COMPETENCIES

Technology Leadership Cloud Technologies Strategic Partnerships

Team Leading, Mentoring Product Engineering Quality Assurance

Culture of Innovation Infrastructure Optimization Development Lifecycle

Continuous Improvement Technology Roadmaps Escalation Management SELECTED CAREER PROJECTS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

MIS Director for PlanMember Services, adapted hardware, software systems for $100 million fund conversion.

At PlanMember Services, managed software development, utilizing C++, FoxPro, VB, and Novell.

Saved PlanMember Services from a disastrous IT situation (300 employee-dependent environment).

For the Serena Company, managed construction development for a $10 million historical project.

At Serena, managed PR campaign consultant for a large-scale, $100 million project. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

COGNUEVA, INC., Camarillo, California

President/CTO (2010-Present)

Responsible for managing firm operations, consulting with clients regarding their needs and expectations, client engagement coordination, product and process development, facilitating patents, negotiating client agreements, dealing with and resolving legal issues, and handling a wide variety of special projects. Serves as a well-recognized expert in concurrency and real-time processing (extrinsic), and provides Formal Linguistic Pattern recognition. Selected Accomplishments and Initiatives:

Has a diverse client list, and has consistently met with the highest in client expectations.

Developed command line interface for Chatgpt, where threads talk to each other, enabling modeling and simulation for sociological research.

Works extensively with James Mrose, Esq., a former Fish and Richardson attorney.

Has obtained provisional patents for RSA Praxs (CPW Trade Secret for 28 Research).

Provides Formal Language Theory services and support.

Has innovated for Infratab.

UNITED STATES NAVY, Point Mugu, California (2008-2021) Chief Technologist, Joint Electronic Advanced Technology Office Technologist, Computer Scientist with JATO

Technologist, Computer Scientist

Responsible for project management, providing software leadership, serving as principal investigator on various key initiatives, providing reporting on various systems, and other technologist-related functions.

Chaired AOC Electronic Warfare at Pt. Magu in 2016, has provided digital EW/Cyber EW leadership, consulted for Black Dart Cyber Component, provided leadership for Cyber/EW Convergence, provided Kill Chain analysis for Cyber/EW, produced Summary of Software Defined (Cognitive Adaptive Radio), for EW/Cyber Convergence, and reported on Real-Time Operating System Risks and Implementation.

Produced EWSEA database for JEAT, wrote Strategy for Engagement in Convergence of EW and Cyber: A Bridge to E*WARFARE for Dr. Smiley, provided software leadership for DGTDS, served as Principal Investigator for CRADA: IRCM Tracking Algorithm with Arete Associates, and NPS educational work on Cyber and Cyber/EW.

UNITED STATES NAVY, NAWC, China Lake, California

Computer Scientist, Targeting Recognition Branch (2005-2008) Provided technical leadership for ARPDD and DGTDS, programmed and managed low-level code for real-time systems, and handled other computer science-related functions.

Met with the highest in performance expectations during tenure.

Recipient, 2006 NAWC Commander’s Award.

Additional Experience:

Researcher, Computer Science, Sensors, Signal Sciences, US Navy, NAWC, China Lake, California (2002-2004)

US Representative, Bravo Risk Management Group, Santa Barbara, California (2001-2002)

Instructor, UCSB, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California (2000)

Researcher, UCSB, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California (1999)

Visiting Researcher, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Hawaii (1999)

Instructor, Translation Programming Languages, UCSB, Santa Barbara, California (1998)

Instructor, Assembly Language, UCSB, Santa Barbara, California (1997)

Consultant, Hammer Capital, Santa Barbara, California (1997)

Consultant, Canon, Costa Mesa, California (1996)

Director, MIS, PLanMember Services, Carpentaria, California (1993-1995)

Vice President, The Serena Company, Carpentaria, California (1986-1993) EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, Santa Barbara, California Ph.D. in Computer Science.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Bachelor of Arts in Physics (Cum Laude).

PHILLIPS ACADEMY, Andover, Massachusetts

Earned High School Diploma.

PATENTS AND PUBLICATIONS

K.V. Ravi Kanth, D. Serena and A. Singh, “Improved Concurrency Control Techniques for Multi-dimensional Index Structures.” IPPS (International Parallel Processing Symposium), 1998.

U.S. Pat. 6,912,571, 7,516,215 and 7,949,791. Application 12/985,218. Initially Filed and Approved: Date February 22, 2000. Advertising Replacement/Customization. Sold to Sony. Teofilo F. Gonzalez and F. David Serena, “Node Disjoint Shortest Paths for Pairs of Vertices in an n-Cube Network.” IASTED PDPS, 2001.

Teofilo F. Gonzalez and F. David Serena, IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS2001) . Node Disjoint Shortest Paths for Pairs of Vertices in an n-Cube Network, 2001.

Teofilo F. Gonzalez and F. David Serena, Complexity of k-Pairwise Disjoint Shortest Paths in the Undirected Hypercubic Network and Related Problems. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, 2002.

F. David Serena, PhD. Thesis, University of California at Santa Barbara, k-Pairwise Disjoint Shortest Paths: Algorithms and Complexity, 2002.

F. David Serena and Teofilo F. Gonzalez, n-Cube Network: Node Disjoint Shortest Paths for Maximal Distance Pairs of Vertices. In Parallel Computing. Elsevier. Vol 30/8. pp. 973-998. 2004.

F. David Serena and Teofilo F. Gonzalez, Complexity of the Pairwise Shortest Path Routing in the Grid. In Theoretical Computer Science. Elsevier. Vol 326/1-3 pp 155-185. 2004.

David Serena, "Adaptive hierarchical swarming in persistent surveillance applications," in Enabling Technologies for Simulation Science IX, edited by Dawn A. Trevisani, Alex F. Sisti, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5805 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2005) in press 2005.

Teofilo F. Gonzalez and David Serena, Pairwise edge disjoint shortest paths in the n-cube. In Theoretical Computer Science. Elsevier. Available online 4 August 2006.

US Patent Application 11/898,887 and PCT. Embedding Digital Values for Digital Exchange. Filed September 2007. Sold to Apple.

Classified Provisional Patent Filing 2012.

Classified Patent Filing 2013.

K.V. Ravi Kanth, D. Serena and A. Singh, “Improved Concurrency Control Techniques for Multi-dimensional Index Structures.” IPPS (International Parallel Processing Symposium), 1998.

U.S. Pat. 6,912,571, 7,516,215 and 7,949,791. Application 12/985,218. Initially Filed and Approved: Date February 22, 2000. Advertising Replacement/Customization. Sold to Sony.

Teofilo F. Gonzalez and F. David Serena, “Node Disjoint Shortest Paths for Pairs of Vertices in an n-Cube Network.” IASTED PDPS, 2001.

Teofilo F. Gonzalez and F. David Serena, IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS2001) . Node Disjoint Shortest Paths for Pairs of Vertices in an n-Cube Network, 2001.

Teofilo F. Gonzalez and F. David Serena, Complexity of k-Pairwise Disjoint Shortest Paths in the Undirected Hypercubic Network and Related Problems. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, 2002.

F. David Serena, PhD. Thesis, University of California at Santa Barbara, kPairwise Disjoint Shortest Paths: Algorithms and Complexity, 2002.

F. David Serena and Teofilo F. Gonzalez, n-Cube Network: Node Disjoint Shortest Paths for Maximal Distance Pairs of Vertices. In Parallel Computing. Elsevier. Vol 30/8. pp. 973-998. 2004.

F. David Serena and Teofilo F. Gonzalez, Complexity of the Pairwise Shortest Path Routing in the Grid. In Theoretical Computer Science. Elsevier. Vol 326/1- 3 pp 155-185. 2004.

David Serena, "Adaptive hierarchical swarming in persistent surveillance applications," in Enabling Technologies for Simulation Science IX, edited by Dawn A. Trevisani, Alex F. Sisti, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5805 (SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2005) in press 2005.

Teofilo F. Gonzalez and David Serena, Pairwise edge disjoint shortest paths in the n-cube. In Theoretical Computer Science. Elsevier. Available online 4 August 2006.

US Patent Application 11/898,887 and PCT. Embedding Digital Values for Digital Exchange. Filed September 2007. Sold to Apple.



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