Shelley currently serves the Austin market as Sales & Use Tax Consultant for Benchmark. She began her sales & use tax career 25 years ago, performing reverse sales tax reviews for a variety of clients and working directly with the Texas Comptroller to meet all filing requirements.

In 1996 Shelley would build on her sales & use tax experience, going to work for C.L. Chance & Company, where she helped clients realize refunds through reverse audit reviews. Because all companies are different with different accounting systems in place, Shelley embraced the challenge of each client and the responsibility in preparing and presenting records to the Texas Comptroller. As her family grew, she continued her work with C.L. Chance but also established a home-based practice of her own, managing the month-to-month bookkeeping operations for companies in the real estate, service, retail, construction, medical and food and beverage industries.

Shelley received her B.S. degree in Accounting from Texas A&M. She resides in Austin, TX with husband Ken and their two children Beau and Hays. Their oldest, Haley, is currently attending Texas A&M. Shelley has applied her servant’s heart to everything she does, including cooking meals for events at Lake Travis United Methodist Church since 2005 and serving as Treasurer for the Trustees of her church since 2012.