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Steve Surdu is the Vice President of Professional Services at MANDIANT. As the leader of the Professional Services team, Steve’s primary responsibility is to direct the activities of the consulting and education teams, ensuring that MANDIANT provides unsurpassed service to its clients. Steve has over 25 years of experience in professional services, solutions delivery and business development. He has worked with clients in a number of industries including financial services, high technology, healthcare, manufacturing, state and federal government, retail and regulated industry.Prior to joining MANDIANT, Steve was Vice President of Solution Services at SYSCOM, Inc. There, he managed the professional services division, providing oversight of all client service delivery and directly managing selected client engagements.Before that, Steve was Director of Consulting in the Washington, DC office of Foundstone/McAFee. During his tenure there, Steve managed numerous incident response and security assessment engagements across North America. He also served as the primary consultant for a number of incident response program development projects and supported the delivery of that service by other Foundstone offices over a two-year period. In the products area, he planned and oversaw the largest implementation of the Foundstone Enterprise product in the organization’s history. The project involved the deployment of 85 appliances across approximately 30 departments over a five month period. Steve’s previous roles include Director for BBN, Branch Executive of Cerner Corporation, and Director of Practice Management for Accenture. Within these organizations, he has led or participated in consulting engagements that developed large scale custom and packaged software applications, architected complex hosting environments and managed Internet infrastructure that supported thousands of international users. Steve is a 1980 graduate of the University of Michigan, where he received a Bachelors of Business Administration. | 