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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 exactly work related. Competitions, awards, leadership opportunities, and even some videos and new 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)
National Science Foundation
Full scholarship awarded to students committed to government cybersecurity service. Recipients work for a federal, state, or local 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, a hardware assembly and systems integration challenge focused on secure, mission-ready configuration.
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Oct 2024
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National Cyber League 100th Percentile
Spring 2024 Individual Game performance
Top scorer 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)
The highest rank in Scouting, earned after years of leadership, service, and skill development. Only about 4% of Scouts achieve this rank.
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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 ceremonial and commencement events.
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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
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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.
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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 Western Regional round of the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition.
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Feb 2026
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| The UNIVAC 1219B |
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Since 2021, I've volunteered as a mainframe technician at InfoAge Science and History Museums in Wall, New Jersey. This location is famously where Project Diana, the first extraterrestrial radar ping sent to the moon and back, was conducted in 1946. Since the collpase of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Camp Evans has now become a pilgrimage for retrocomputing hobbyists across the region. I maintain and demonstrate a UNIVAC 1219B, a 1962 military computer built by Sperry UNIVAC.
The 1219B was a naval fire-control computer installed aboard U.S. Navy warships. Its job was to compute real-time targeting solutions for the ship's guided missile systems: the Terrier, Talos, and Tartar surface-to-air missiles. The machine weighs 900 pounds, uses 18-bit words and core memory, requires 400-cycle power, and was designed to survive the battle with shock absorption and battleshorts.
Once a month, Bill D. and I work on the machine and its peripherals. The UNIVAC 1532 (the IO console) is fully operational along with the UNIVAC 1219B (the CPU), and we are currently in the process of restoring both handlers of the UNIVAC 1540 (the digital data recorder [the tape drive]). I also show off the machine in Vintage Computer Festival East (VCF East), where I demo the UNIVAC for hundreds of visitors each year.
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Me & the UNIVAC at VCF East 2024
Shot on Polaroid SX-70
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UNIVAC 1219B Paper Documentation
bitsavers.org — Original Sperry UNIVAC Manuals
Scanned PDFs of the original technical and operator manuals for the UNIVAC 1219B, hosted by the bitsavers archive. Indispensable reading for anyone interested in 1960s naval fire-control computers.
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Manuals
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UNIVAC 1540 DDR Tape Drive Documentation
bitsavers.org — Original Sperry UNIVAC Manuals
Paper documentation for the UNIVAC 1540 digital data recorder — the tape drive peripheral that Bill and I are currently restoring at InfoAge.
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Manuals
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How the UNIVAC 1219 Was Acquired
vintagecomputer.net — Forum Thread, circa 2010
Duane's first-hand account from the vintage computing community describing how this particular UNIVAC 1219 system was rescued and brought to InfoAge for preservation.
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Story
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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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UNIVAC 1219B and 1540 Demonstration
YouTube — Video Demo
A walkthrough demo of the UNIVAC 1219B mainframe and the 1540 digital data recorder at InfoAge, showing the machine in operation along with its peripherals.
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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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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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