PRIVATE SECTOR EXPERIENCE
Current

• Principal, Ryan, Austin office
  
  • Specializes in providing multi-jurisdictional tax services, including research, planning, and education.
• Practice focus includes energy, petrochemical, and manufacturing.

Previous

• Senior Manager, national accounting firm
  
  • Ms. Fortune spent eight years working in public accounting, specializing in providing state and local tax services, including multistate research, multistate planning and state and local tax education.
• Practice Leader for a five-state region responsible for strategic sales tax restructuring.

PUBLIC SECTOR EXPERIENCE
Previous

• Auditor, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Ms. Fortune lectures on various tax topics for Ryan clients and has appeared as a speaker for the following organizations:

• American Institute of Women Accountants, Houston Chapter
• Institute for Professionals in Taxation
• Lorman Education Services
• National Business Institute

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Institute for Professionals in Taxation
• Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants

EDUCATION/ACCREDITATION

• Bachelor of Business Administration Degree, Accounting, Southwest Texas State University
• Certified Member of the Institute (CMI), Institute for Professionals in Taxation
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Licensed in Texas
  (Ryan is not a CPA firm.)