12.15.2007

Graduation!

I graduated! More details to come......

12.02.2007

Post-Graduation Job/Plans

This post is definitely long overdue. The date of my graduation is drawing near...only 12.5 days away, and I am scurrying to finish all my homework/projects/labs/studying, and everything else that I have to do. Whereas my grade point will not be determined for another 2 weeks, one thing that has already been determined is my immediate post-graduation plans, including my new job for the near and immediate future.

Last week, I accepted a full-time position with Southern Natural Gas, a subsidiary of El Paso Corporation, which provides natural gas and related energy products. If you are wandering what a subsidiary is, I'll give you a little analogy (basically, EP is the parent company, just like Southern Co).

Southern Natural Gas is to El Paso Corporation as
Alabama Power is to Southern Company

El Paso Corporation owns America's largest interstate natural gas pipeline system- approximately 43,000 miles- transporting about a quarter of the natural gas consumed in the country each day. Besides pipelines, they are also in the business of exploration and production.

Anyways...the job that I have been hired on for is that of a Pipeline Analyst. Basically, I will be using a lot of simulation techniques as well as other various technical engineering skills to look at what would happen if certain events take place on our pipelines. There is a lot more to it than this, but if you want to know more you can just ask me.

The Southern Natural Gas building is located directly beside Brookwood Mall in Birmingham, AL, so that is where I will be. My start date is January 14th, 2008, so I will have a solid month to do whatever I want before I start work. My family already has a snow skiing trip planned for the Christmas break, and we are leaving the day after I graduate. Besides that, I will probably ride my bike and row alot, as well as find a place to live and take care of other miscellaneous tasks. That is about it...if anyone is going to be in Birmingham starting in 2008, let me know!