The 2011 tax season will mark my 18th year in tax preparation. I opened my own office in 2004 after working for H&R Block as a senior tax advisor for 10 years. I received an M.S. in Mathematics at Texas Tech University following my B.A. in Psychological Education from Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan. I have been a statistician, an engineer at Texas Instruments, Atari and ITT, a Japanese teacher at Arizona Gakuen in Mesa, a translator for Motorola, a VP of a golf course maintenance company, and the president of a real estate development company. I bring this unique and diverse professional background to my tax practice.

I was born and raised in Japan and speak fluent Japanese. I have written more than 150 income tax articles in an Arizona-based Japanese magazine, Oasis, over the past 13 years. My husband and I moved to Arizona 26 years ago and raised two daughters: Amanda, a real estate agent/accountant and Kimiko, a working actress in NYC. My husband Mark has been an independent software architect for over 25 years, currently working on a CT scanner for GE Healthcare. Our family has been involved in children’s musical theatre for many years, and I served as a board member for Greasepaint Youtheatre, Scottsdale AZ and as a parent auxiliary board member for Valley Youth Theatre, Phoenix, AZ.