Colorado Bound!

Can't wait to view mountains on my drive every day.

I know some people reading this blog will be excited for us moving to Colorado and others will think we are crazy for moving away from a place where we have so much support from friends and family.  Trust me; I was not seeking this out at this time at all (although CO has been a dream for us) BUT Colorado found me this time!  In the last year Bambi and I have spent our time, effort, and money fixing up a house we bought in Nov. 2010.  We finally have everything situated and here we are putting our house up for sale.  On top of that, I started a new job in September and we just had our first baby.

This new venture got started from a Colorado Summer trip back in August of 2009.  Bambi and I had gone to Winter Park to do some mountain biking and then went white water rafting around the Leadville area.  When we touched down in Houston Bambi was determined to move to Colorado, both of us putting resumes out there.  After several months and no luck, we quickly moved on from that dream and accepted Houston as our home (still).      

Fast forward to 2012…I was in Dallas in January on business when I got a call from a recruiter in Denver.  He came across that resume from 2009 on Rigzone.com where I stated my desire to find a job in Denver.  He had a Corporate Development Engineer position.  Oddly enough, my experience over the last 3 years fit the job profile even better now, although he wouldn’t have known that from the resume.  I still thought it was a long shot but I was able to score a phone interview with the VP of Corporate Development there a week later.  I guess he liked my background from our 45 minute conversation because a week and half later they were flying me up to Denver for a face to face.  This was actually the same week Thor was born.  Thor was born on Monday (2/6) and I flew to Denver that Friday (2/10).  I had to tell everyone I was going to Oklahoma City for business as my current employer has a big office there.  We were keeping this from our parents because we knew this was going to be tough on them.  Plus, during this whole process we were under the thought that it was a lot less likely for everything to NOT work out anyway and there was no use in getting anyone else’s feelings/thoughts/opinions involved at a premature point. 

Well the following Tuesday the recruiter informed me that I was their guy and they were going to make me an offer.  I accepted!  How could I have not accepted the job because the deck was stacked against it the whole time throughout the process.  I never would have thought that everything was going to work out best for all parties.  My official title will be Senior Petroleum Engineer, Corporate Development working for Bonanza Creek Energy, a small E&P company that just went public.  This opportunity will open a lot more doors than my present job and give me more responsibility at the same time.  I will be in charge of getting their oil and gas to sales (market), otherwise known as marketing in the oil and gas business.  They have a couple of plants in Arkansas that will be my responsibility as well.  I will also assume the role I’ve done for the past 4 years of trying to buy oil and gas properties around the US.  I’m very excited about the opportunity and I will be working for a fellow Texas A&M alumni; can’t beat that.  It will take a while to get fully situated up there and I look forward to catching up with friends and family before we head out.  On top of that, our door will be open to anyone who wants to come visit!