My career has not followed a traditional accounting path.
After college, I moved to China and taught English. Living and working abroad taught me how to adapt quickly, communicate across differences, and become comfortable figuring things out without a roadmap.
When I returned to the United States, I moved into office management and business operations. Like many people working in small businesses, I ended up wearing a lot of hats: bookkeeping, collections, purchasing, customer support, HR administration, vendor management, inventory support, and whatever else needed attention that day.
Over time, accounting became the work I enjoyed most. I found that I liked solving problems, organizing information, and helping people understand what was actually happening behind the numbers.
In 2015, I started my own accounting practice and have spent the years since supporting small businesses and nonprofit organizations with bookkeeping, reconciliations, financial reporting, and accounting cleanup projects.
Along the way, I also worked in a CPA and tax office environment supporting individual tax preparation and related workpapers. That experience strengthened my understanding of how day-to-day bookkeeping connects to tax reporting and long-term financial outcomes.
Several years later, my family relocated to India for a period of time. While living abroad, I continued supporting U.S.-based accounting clients remotely. Maintaining continuity across time zones and continents reinforced something I had already learned: reliable accounting depends less on location than it does on consistency, communication, and attention to detail.
Today, I continue to operate my own practice while also supporting a fractional CFO firm in a part-time capacity. My work focuses on helping organizations build financial systems they can trust and producing reporting that is useful for real-world decisions.
Looking back, the common thread through all of these experiences is simple: I enjoy stepping into situations that are unclear, understanding how they work, and creating systems that make them run better.
Career Highlights
• Founded and operated independent accounting practice since 2015
• More than 10 years supporting small business accounting and financial operations
• Experience serving both for-profit and nonprofit organizations
• Full-cycle bookkeeping, reconciliations, financial reporting, and accounting cleanup projects
• Tax preparation support and workpaper development within a CPA/tax office environment
• Maintained accounting clients remotely while residing internationally
• Current experience supporting a fractional CFO firm
• Completed educational requirements to sit for the CPA examination
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For those interested in a more detailed overview of my experience, a current resume is available below.
Whether you’re considering accounting support for your organization or evaluating me for an employment opportunity, the resume provides additional information about my professional background and technical experience.