While living in Northern Maine 2011 I stumbled upon a dream job that involved my two greatest interests: taxes, and testing software. Little start up company working out of a garage called ATX developed a tax prep software using Excel. I starting working for them when they were about a 12 year old company. My talents as a software tester were soon recognized. I have received joke awards in appreciation like golden hammers, plastic bugs symbolizing my ability to find defects in the software. In 2004 I left Northern Maine to work in the company's tax form department and there was assigned a group of tax forms to test that are scary. This is when I started to really advance in tax knowledge. Not a CPA, but sometimes I knew more than the CPA I worked with just by researching, reading, analyzing. Moved back to the North East 2007 and started working remote. Still working for same company that relocated to GA. I am passionate about software testing and bringing a project to release stage with a group of people is my favorite thing to do