Jennifer Johnson:
CLASS OF 1983
Southwest High SchoolClass of 1983
Ft. worth, TX
Wheaton High SchoolClass of 1983
Wheaton, MD
Belt Junior High SchoolClass of 1980
Wheaton, MD
Connecticut Park Elementary SchoolClass of 1977
Wheaton, MD
Jennifer's Story
Life
I am Controller for a small oil & gas company. I have been married to David for 28 years and have a daughter, Emily - 22, and a son, Zachary - 20. After graduating college I got a job with Union Pacific Resources Co. (the oil & gas subsidiary of the UP Corp.) as an auditor. I worked at UPR for 12 years then took a voluntary severance package when the company merged with Anadarko Petroleum in Houston, since we didn't want to go to Houston. I was able to work on a transition team for a year and then I got a job with some ex-UPR folks at Stroud Energy. I was at Stroud for 4 years and loved it. Then Stroud was purchased by Range Resources, which is also in Ft. Worth. I didn't stay for long, though. I got an offer to join a startup company with the previous owner of Stroud. I decided to go for it, so I worked at Braden Exploration, here in Ft. Worth, for 5 years. We sold the assets of the company and some of us started Braden II. I worked at Braden II for 3 years until it closed. Now I am in limbo hoping for a great job to come my way!
When I moved to Texas (right before my sophomore year of high school) I continued to keep in touch with friends from Maryland, but after a couple of years I ended up losing touch with them. Letter writing is one of my downfalls - email is a god-send. I hope to find some of them again.
School
After graduating, I began attending Texas Wesleyan Univ. in the Fall of 1983 on full scholarship - woohoo!! But stupid me decided since I had worked so hard in high school for good grades decided it was time to take it easy for a while. Not a good decision. By the end of my freshman year my gpa was not high enough to stay with the scholarship. So I mo...Expand for more
ved to Dallas Baptist Univ. where my dad was teaching - so I still got to go for free. I stayed there for two years. It was there I decided to major in accounting, but the accounting program was not up to snuff. I knew I would need to go somewhere else. Well, I got married in the Fall of 1986 and stayed out a semester. I resumed my college career at the Univ. of Texas at Arlington, which has a top notch accounting program. Between working 32-40 per week and going to school only part time, I finally graduated with a BBA in accounting in 1990. whew!
College
I went to three different schools and it took me 7 years. aargh! Getting married during college set me back quite a while. With all of the transferring, I ended up with many unusable hours. Is that being well rounded or stupid? ha. I never lived on campus - always commuted. I majored in accounting and I passed the CPA exam in 1994. I was very tired of school by the time I finished and did not want to continue on for a masters degree - still don't.
Workplace
After college I got a job with Union Pacific Resources (the oil & gas subsidiary of UP Corp.). I was an internal auditor for them for 3 years, then moved into revenue accounting where I learned gas plant accounting. I stayed there for 4 years, then moved into the planning dept. to work with one of our business units. When Anadarko took over and moved the company to Houston I didn't go, but was able to work on a data warehouse transition team for a year. My total years at UPR were 11. I took a month off and began working Stroud Energy where I was the assistant controller. I work with great folks and I can't imagine not working in the oil & gas industry. I love it.
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