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Steven Schiavone
Digital Forensics & Cybersecurity
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Competitions, Certifications & Adventures |
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Here is a compedendium of everything I do that isn't inherently work related. Competitions, awards, leadership opportunities, videos, and news articles that feature me can be found here.
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Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NECCDC)
Team Captain (2025 & 2026 Seasons) | Team Member (2024 Season)
Lead Pace University's competitive Collegiate Cyber Defense Team against professional red team hackers working for the U.S. government. Created a 120-page contingency guide to help teammates prepare for defending enterprise networks under live attack. Also served as a TA for CIT397U, helping prepare undergraduates for SOC Analyst roles in support of the competition.
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New England Collegiate Cyber Penetration Competition (NECPTC)
Team Captain (2026 - 2027 Season)
Lead Pace University's offensive security team in the regional collegiate penetration testing competition, focused on real-world red team tradecraft against simulated enterprise targets.
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National Cyber League (NCL)
Individual & Team Competitor
Competed in individual and team games across categories including cryptography, log analysis, network forensics, and OSINT.
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2023 - 2025
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| Certifications & Awards |
Information Technology Departmental Award
Pace University, Seidenberg School
Awarded for outstanding achievement in undergraduate CSIS Information Technology studies.
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2026
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Seidenberg UG Career Services Award
Pace University, Seidenberg School
Recognized for leadership and career readiness support across the undergraduate CSIS community.
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2026
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Dean's List
Pace University, Seidenberg School
3.77 GPA -- B.S. Information Technology, Cybersecurity concentration.
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2022 - 2025
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CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) Recipient
National Science Foundation
Full-ride scholarship awarded to students who commit to government cybersecurity service. Recipients work for a federal, state, local, or tribal government agency for a period equal to their scholarship duration.
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July 2024
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US Space Force PC Build Competition Winner
U.S. Space Force
Won the PC building competition hosted by the U.S. Space Force.
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Oct 2024
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National Cyber League 100th Percentile
Spring 2024 Individual Game performance
29 out of 4199 nationwide in the Spring 2024 NCL Individual Game.
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Apr 2024
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Eagle Scout
Scouting America (formerly Boy Scouts of America)
Culmination of leadership, service, mentorship, and outdoorsmanship over the course of a decade: from a Tiger Cub at age six to Eagle at seventeen.
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Oct 2022
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| Leadership |
Cybersecurity Club, Pace University
Executive Chair (2026) | President (2025) | Executive Board (2024)
Organized events hosting NSA agents and CEOs, taught advanced forensics concepts, and grew the club's competitive program.
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ACTIVE
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Seidenberg CSIS Undergraduate Flag Bearer
Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems
Represented the entire 2026 undergraduate CSIS class as flag bearer for commencement.
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2026
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NYC Public Schools Cybersecurity Curriculum
Professional Consultant
Developed a 22-week digital forensics and cyber law curriculum from scratch for NYC high school students.
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2025
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Computer Club, Monroe Township HS
President
Steered the club through the COVID-19 pandemic, expanded membership, gained out admittance to HackClub, and organized successful events.
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2021 - 2022
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| Volunteering |
InfoAge Science and History Museums
Mainframe Operator
Exhibit and maintain a UNIVAC 1219B mainframe system and peripherals to the general public on weekends once a month. The full story lives on my UNIVAC 1219B page.
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Monroe Township Historic Preservation Commission
Dey Farm Museum Docent
Give tours on historic Monroe Township historical sites, curating displayed museum pieces and working with commissioners on furthering project development during summer months.
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Western Regional CCDC (WRCCDC)
Orange Team Competition Volunteer
Volunteered as competition support staff for the Qualifier round of the Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.
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Feb 2026
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| Open Source Contributions |
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In 2022, I began contributing to open source software projects on GitHub. In my current role at the WCDAO, I have been permitted to continue developing and contributing to open source projects, some of which the office uses in its day-to-day operations. Most notably, I have contributed to the Hindsight browser forensics tool, which is used to analyze web browser artifacts for digital investigations. Under my development effort, Hindsight was expanded from a tool that exclusively focused on Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers to now include support for Mozilla Firefox and Gecko-based browsers.
Apart from my contributions to Hindsight, I have also ported an older Python 2-based script written by Adrian Leong for converting Google's ei time that is encoded in URLs to a modern Python 3 version.
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Hindsight Approved Pull Request
github.com — Hindsight Project Page
My pull request that was approved and merged into the Hindsight project, adding support for Mozilla Firefox.
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Github
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dfir.blog Post Regarding PR
dfir.blog — Blog Post
A blog post recognizing my addition of Firefox support to the Hindsight tool.
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Blog
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Tyler Hudak & Kevin Pagano
LinkedIn — Posts
Two LinkedIn posts sharing the news of my addition of Firefox support to the Hindsight tool.
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Blog
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| In the News & Media |
Rooted in History, Wired for the Future
Pace University News — Student Biography
A profile piece published by Pace University covering my background in cybersecurity, my work restoring the UNIVAC 1219B, and my involvement with Seidenberg's competitive cyber defense program.
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Pace University Unveils New Cybersecurity War Room
News 12 Westchester — Television Broadcast
News 12 covers the opening of Pace University's new cybersecurity facility. I provided on-camera quotes about the war room and how it supports student training for cyber defense competitions.
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TV News
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Rust RISC-V Emulator Running C Programs on the UNIVAC 1219B
YouTube — Project Documentation
Two developers built a Rust-based RISC-V emulator capable of running modern C programs on the UNIVAC 1219B. I assisted with hardware access, machine wrangling, and debugging during the project.
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Video
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Running a Minecraft Server and More on a 1960s UNIVAC Computer
farlow.dev — Blog Post
An in-depth write-up of the RISC-V emulator project on the UNIVAC 1219B, including a Minecraft server experiment. I'm referenced several times throughout for my involvement with the hardware and restoration work.
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Blog
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