1991
After receiving my degree from Duke I received my JD and LLM in Tax from Villanova Law School and my MBA from Temple University. I started my career in tax at Arthur Andersen LLP where I became a licensed CPA and continued my career in tax at law firms, public accounting firms and private industry. For the past 8 years I have specialized exclusively in State and Local Tax. I also had a tremendous opportunity to spend almost 3 months in Bangalore starting up my current firm's shared services center.
Despite the stereotype of an accountant, most of my time is spent performing research, analyzing client problems and a lot of writing/editing. My English degree was key in helping me be able to synthesize a large amount of information in a short period of time and become a great writer. My degree led me to become an assistant legal writing instructor in law school where I was able to further hone my skills. I believe I was able to advance in my career further since the skills I gained at Duke were exactly what my current firm was looking for in making the decision to promote me to Managing Director.
English Department