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NSTP Welcomes You!

NSTP was founded in 1985 with a goal to help Tax Professionals improve their business through association with other professionals, promotion of continuing education, a code of ethics, and cooperation between members of the profession.

Those goals haven’t changed. For over 35 years NSTP’s Board of Directors, Instructors, Helpline Staff, and Office Staff have diligently provided the very best continuing education in tax preparation, ethics, and client service.

Rick Amico, Tax Preparer
President
Membership
I, along with my wife, own Amico2, Inc. We specialize in Small Business and Entrepreneurial Accounting and have actively in the preparation of Taxes for the past 26 years. As a Charter Executive Member…

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Paul La Monaca, CPA, MST
Vice President, Director of Education
Instructor | Helpline
Paul is NSTP’s Director of Education and is responsible for determining the Society’s educational goals. His main focus is to make sure that NSTP is the premier educational provider for Tax Professionals with…

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George H Kresslein Jr, CPA
Secretary
George Kresslein is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia. His office is located in Northern Virginia. George Has been a CPA since 1986. George graduated from Christopher…

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Keith Huebel, CPA
Treasurer
Director of Government Relations
Keith, a Cum Laude graduate from the University of Baltimore, a prestigious institution of Business, Accounting and Law, started his accounting and tax career in 1979 while attending college and passed the CPA…

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Joy L Burgess, CPA
Director
Joy L. Burgess is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the state of Maryland. She graduated from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania where she earned a Bachelor of Science and majored in…

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Ryan Pierce, EA, CPA
Director
I graduated from Northland college in Ashland WI in 1997 with an accounting degree. I then started working for a local CPA firm for 4 years. After that I started my own company and merged with another CPA in…

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Mary Esther Schneider, Tax Preparer
Director
Mary Munoz Schneider brings more than 50 years in diverse quality tax, financial, and business consulting experience to her exemplary role as a Registered Tax Consultant with the California Tax Education…

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Amber Groberg, CFP, MSA
Member at Large
My name is Amber Groberg, and I am a tax preparer in Southeast Texas. Just 19 miles east from downtown Houston. I was born and raised in Texas. I completed my undergraduate degree from Texas A & M…

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Summer Hodges
Executive Director
NSTP is pleased to announce the addition of Summer Hodges as the new Executive Director. A recent resident to the Portland, OR area, she comes to us from Santa Barbara, CA where she was Executive Director with…

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Nina Tross, MBA, EA
NSTP Liaison for Tax & Advocacy | Instructor
With a passion for continuing education and advocacy, Nina Tross comes to the National Society of Tax Professionals focused on building value and speaking for the rights and interests of individual tax…

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Tanya Baber, EA, CTRS, NTPI Fellow
Instructor
Tanya is a nationally recognized tax professional and frequent speaker on a variety of tax topics and representation. She has been an Enrolled Agent with the IRS since 2006 and received her Bachelor’s degree in…

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Constance R Abercrombie, CPA, MST
Helpline | Webinar Moderator
Constance has been a member of NSTP for over 20 years. She started her career performing financial audits at Ernst & Young Public Accounting Firm and realized her calling in the field of taxation. Her…

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