Stephanie has been working in the field of Financial Accounting for approximately 30 years. As a child though, her dream was to become a professional concert pianist. While on this life’s dream journey, her passion for classical music and performance won the attention of professors at Baylor University and Sam Houston State University, which led to private studies and a rigorous daily schedule with weekly travels while still in high school. Also during this time, she taught piano lessons to beginner students.
At the age of seventeen, she began to realize that her dream career was not well-suited for achieving her other equally important goals of home and family. But luckily, another passion soon revealed itself only a year later after enrolling in a pre-accounting class at the suggestion of her best friend.
Stephanie’s accounting career began in Austin, Texas after graduating from The University of Texas at Austin in 1990, working in the famous Bell Tower Fund Accounting Dept. on the UT Austin main campus. Several years later, she returned to her hometown of College Station, for a career promotion working at Texas A&M University’s Fiscal Dept. Ultimately, she decided to further her education with post-graduate studies at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, TX. After graduating with an MBA in Business, she settled down in Nacogdoches and started a family. Years later, she and her family moved to Huntsville, TX, where she buckled-down and focused on finishing her certification in public accounting (CPA) while working in private industry as a Controller. Not long after receiving her CPA Texas State Board of Public Accountancy CPA license and accreditation, an opportunity for further advancement led her and her family to Houston, TX, where she spent the next fifteen years or so employed in a successful career as a Chief Financial Officer and C-Suite Executive in the oil & gas industry.
Stephanie is also a veteran entrepreneur, with successful start-ups in construction, equipment manufacturing, 501c3 mental-health services, community home for adults with Autism, property management, retail e-commerce, professional accounting, and consulting.
What makes Stephanie unique is her ability to infuse artistic creativity with various business applications, in combination with her unrelenting desire for achieving continuous business improvements. And whether that means developing new operations programs for charities, or creating new strategic business models for businesses, her ability to apply artistic reasoning and applying creative solutions in business earns her the accolade of being considered by many to be a pioneer of new costing-best-practices and metrics.
Stephanie is also an inventor and currently has two patents pending, one for a business analytics software application, and a second, for a heavy equipment product improvement. Additionally, she has recently begun specialized studies to complete an additional professional certification in the area of Forensic Accounting, offered by the AICPA. For more information about Stephanie and her community outreach endeavors, please see the Community Page within this website.
Stephanie currently proudly serves the Houston Texas Metropolitan Area, Montgomery County, and most recently, Walker County, with her own private CPA practice, and newest location in Huntsville, TX.
