Jeff Crowder

(540) 231-3900

Jeff Crowder is a Program Director at Virginia Tech. With the university since 1985, his work has centered on strategic program development for high performance regional and national networks. A key goal for Jeff has been to ensure Virginia Tech's campus in Blacksburg remains connected to the national and global research network infrastructure with state of the art capacity and capability among leading research universities.

Over the last several years, he has been involved with large scale project management for regional and national research networks and regional optical networks for economic development. Recent programs Jeff has led or contributed significantly to include NetworkVirginia, National LambdaRail, Internet2, Mid Atlantic Crossroads, the Mid Atlantic Terascale Partnership, VORTEX, and eCorridors.