Patrick Ciavolella

Patrick Ciavolella has been in the digital security and operations field since 2009. Patrick began as a Temporary Employee at Career Blazers, where they did all-around office and clerical work, including data entry. In 2011, they joined The Media Trust as a Digital Security & Operations Director. In this role, they focused on 3rd party code in the detection and remediation of any malicious or unwanted content served through the digital eco-system, with a focus on digital advertising. Patrick was the director of a team of 16, authored multiple articles on the topic of online security, and presented during Anomali 2017 at National Harbor, MD. Patrick also deobfuscated multiple variations of code including base64, Javascript, html, html5, hex coding and others, utilized Jira to manage projects and timelines, interviewed and hired team members, communicated directly with many fortune 100 companies and their security and adops teams, held weekly meetings, and held conference calls. In addition, they were the Head Malware Desk and Analytics, and Malware Desk Manager, where they worked to protect the online and mobile environment through the continuous monitoring of websites and ad tags, and provided real-time detection of malware, data leakage, and performance issues.

Patrick Ciavolella received their B.S. in Physical Science with a focus in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland in 2009. Prior to that, they obtained their B.S. from Salisbury University in 2007, majoring in Physics.