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Patrick O’Connell is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and has a varied background in cyber security, computer science, and software engineering. Trained as a computer scientist and mathematician, O’Connell studies at a fundamental level software architectures and how defects manifest as vulnerabilities. Using this foundation, he has experience in threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, security posture determination, and penetration testing. He recently served as the acting  He has served as team leader of the Cyber Security Evaluations and Assessments Research team, which specializes in assessing systems, hardware components, programs, and software, and as acting group leader for the Cyber Resilience Foundations group. 

• MS in computer science, University of Idaho, 2003
• BS in computer science and mathematics, University of Idaho, 2001