Jeff Minor

Currently leading a highly skilled infrastructure and support team.  The availability of all enterprise IT systems and support is the team's responsibility around the clock.  Results focused management style that includes the coordination of multiple departments and using complex problem solving strategies to complete projects on time and within budget.  Responsible for strategy and cost reporting to upper management.

Current Projects

Integration of the Carrizo and Callon IT systems and infrastructure into one unified organization. Creation and execution of strategies to combine the best of the two companies' assets while increasing resource availability and reducing costs.

As the National Practice Manager, I managed all technologies related to enterprise networking, including oversight of all projects within the practice. I am responsible for approving and validating all solutions presented to customers. My role also includes the professional development of the team, with the goal to drive full team utilization. Additionally, my duties include identifying and interfacing with strategic vendors in the practice.

Notable Projects

Design and implementation of data centers in North America and Europe for a popular entertainment company. The data centers included highly-scalable and highly-available layer 2 and layer 3 services for thousands of virtual hosts, each with thousands of virtual guests. The design incorporated multiple best-of-breed vendors to create a highly-redundant layer 2/3 network with multiple Internet BGP peers.

Design and hands-on implementation of primary and secondary data centers for an energy exploration and production company. The design provided a resilient layer 2 network with at least three redundant paths for site-to-site connectivity. VLAN extension technology was used to stretch the layer 2 network across sites, providing for ease of migration for recovery purposes.

Design, implementation, and migration of a Fortune 100 energy transportation, storage, and marketing company. The design included a full-scale migration of the corporate data center to a colocation facility, as well as development of a disaster recovery migration strategy using virtualization and VLAN extension to simplify the process.

Design, ground-up implementation, and migration of a global developer of power, natural gas, and energy services. Performed a full migration of the corporate data center to a new colocation facility. Thousands of virtual machines were transferred live without downtime. The design included the utilization of dark fiber to provide multiple links, including 10Gb Ethernet and 8Gb fiber channel. 

Successfully installed 70 sites on a nationwide frame relay network using Cisco routers. Integrated newly-acquired companies into our WAN via frame-relay or VPN. Responsible for all maintenance and technical issues that arose due to performance degradation or interruption of service. Also designed and implemented highly-available Internet and hardware solutions for CGX’s business division, CGXMedia.

Worked with WAN protocols such as frame-relay, EIGRP, and BGP daily.

Created policies and implemented security measures for the entire 70 site company. Maintained security configuration through firewalls for 66 different internal companies with individual needs. Also provided VPN services for remote networks and users. Implemented an enterprise-level content filtering solution to maximize bandwidth. I had ultimate responsibility for company’s security.

Implemented Exchange 5.5 throughout company with roughly 1,750 email users. Provided support for many different POP3/IMAP mail clients. Responsible for in-house Exchange Server 5.5 with approximately 800 users. Also supported 20 other mail servers throughout company's locations nationwide.

Managed customer-facing FTP servers, mailing list server, and approximately 120 other servers in the corporation.

Implemented 1,750 node Symantec anti-virus system.

Reported directly to the Vice President of Information Systems for updates on network status, security-related events, new technologies, and assistance with network decisions.

Performed server upgrades, domain additions and changes, and all mailbox and user administration, including troubleshooting with the Internet mail connection and user mail connectivity for desktops and laptops.

Handled all software installation, troubleshooting, hardware upgrades for all users in all locations including off-site connectivity of laptop users.

Provided desktop support for all users nation-wide.

Key member in the implementation of a master domain structure for the company, assisted in all aspects of migration to new domains including logon scripts, security, trusts, backups, and Exchange connectivity.