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JAMES BAUTSCH


DIRECTOR, ENGINEER, PROBLEM SOLVER


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Give me the elevator pitch. Tell me your life story.
Hey I am James. I am a director, an engineer, and a data scientist. I get to
work with and mentor the brightest engineers in oil and gas working to make the
industry a part of the solution. I am constantly learning and striving to
improve. My passion is solving problems.
I am a very tired dad who drinks too much coffee and has a peculiar interest in
mechanical keyboards.
My name is James Bautsch. Currently, I am the Director of Reservoir, Analytics,
and Development at Caerus Oil and Gas in Denver. We are private equity-backed
natural gas operator focused on the Rockies region. My team evaluates and
optimizes our significant acreage footprint while maintaining impeccable
regulatory compliance. We are a smaller team, so we must get resourceful and
build many of our own tools. I developed a custom program called Olive that runs
on a Python backend and Django frontend. With Olive, we can run a massive monte
carlo simulation on a financial model involving thousands of individual, unique
cases. I also built some neat machine learning workflows that have improved our
drilling returns by predicting the better areas to develop. We also do a lot of
deals (three in the past two years) and work very closely with Finance on
investment recommendations and board deliverables.

While I have about ten cumulative years at Caerus working through the ranks, I
had a brief sabbatical at PDC Energy working on business development and
corporate strategy.

Before I found a job in oil and gas, I spent a year working odd jobs after
graduating from CU Boulder. 2009 was not an ideal year to enter the workforce,
so I did whatever I could find. I was a tutor, an office administrator, a
contract worker, and most memorably, a bouncer at the Tavern where I mainly
threw out drunk people.

In my spare time, I am entertaining my tiny humans, providing pro bono IT
support for my dad’s company, or tinkering with new projects.
I grew up mostly in Colorado. My athletic career peaked in high school as a
bench warmer on the freshman basketball team. I went to CU Boulder to study
chemical engineering where I co-founded ChemE Happy Hour with Amanda Parker.
After college I found my way into the oil and gas industry and got addicted to
(now recovered from) CrossFit. My quarantine hobbies included building
mechanical keyboards, telerobotics, and drinking too much wine. Today, I am a
very happy dad of two tiny humans and continue exploring weird hobbies.
Professional