Biography:

Mr. Suraci serves as Senior Advisor for National Security and Emergency Preparedness (NS/EP) Communications within the Emergency Communications Division (ECD) in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), United States of America.  In this role, Mr. Suraci directly supports the Executive Assistant Director in managing a myriad of critical emergency communications tasks and represents ECD on senior committees across Departments and Agencies in order to further advance interoperable NS/EP communications. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Suraci served for over thirty years as the Government Emergency Telecommunications Service (GETS) and Wireless Priority Service (WPS) Branch Chief. He was responsible for taking Government Emergency Telecommunications Service (GETS) and Wireless Priority Service (WPS) from concepts to the operational services. Mr. Suraci was appointed to serve on Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) Working Groups. He continues to enhance these NS/EP services by collaborating with telecommunications industry partners and currently supports the Wi-Fi priority access initiative in IEEE 802.11. Mr. Suraci holds a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from The Catholic University of America and completed graduate work at Penn State University and George Washington University. Mr. Suraci is an active participant in professional organizations, including the IEEE and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) where he is a distinguished life member.