In recent years, Kent has become an author of tax education materials, sharing his knowledge with other tax pros at ourrenewctec.com website for certified continuing education credits.

Kent works mainly out of our Carson office. Kent works almost every day of tax season and year-round so just call the Carson office if you want to reach him.

Kent’s passion for client service sets the example for our entire team and he is frequently voted “Best Boss Ever” by our Pronto Tax Team.

Jesse has been a business owner and entrepreneur since an early age, having started and sold multiple businesses over the course of his career. Jesse works extensively with small business owner clients who value his advice because he has been there before and he knows what he is talking about when it comes to small business tax strategies.

Jesse works mainly out of our Monrovia office but also assists in the East LA location.

Jesse is also a licensed Notary Public.

Before starting with Pronto in 2011, Cynthia had two previous years preparing taxes at Anaya’s Tax Service in the City of Norwalk, so this is her seventh year preparing taxes which is widely considered in the tax field as “the year when you start to get really, really good at everything having to do with taxes.”

Cynthia has wonderful people skills, she is very diligent in her work, and she is dedicated to providing Pronto clients with extraordinary service with a personalized approach.

Born and raised in Los Angeles and completely bilingual (English/Spanish), Cynthia has now become a top tax professional on the westside of Los Angeles.

If you are looking for a smart, up-and-coming tax professional who can stay with you all through the years to come, ask for Cynthia; she’s really good now and she’s only going to get better as embarks on her veteran portion of her tax & accounting career as Our Fearless Leader of the West LA Office Location.

Need professional tax preparation in the Culver City / Marina Del Rey area? Come visit Cynthia at the Pronto West L.A. office. You can make an appointment with Cynthia using our online appointment booking tool.

In January of 2011, Andy set out on a new adventure leading the brand new West Los Angeles office of Pronto Income Tax, our first new location in more than 20 years. Andy then followed this up by starting another new office in Van Nuys which opened in January of 2013.

Meanwhile, Andy and a few key teammates at Pronto created our Pronto Tax School education division with the goal of providing tax education to the masses and creating new jobs and business opportunities nationwide.

Always hungry for a new challenge, Andy does very little tax preparation work these days and has set his sights on completing the build-out of our tax education division which he views as the key to empowering the next generation of Pronto Tax Professionals.

Andy also helps with the more advanced tax consulting, tax planning, and tax problem resolution services.

Andy is licensed to represent taxpayers before the IRS as an Enrolled Agent.

Andy has personally prepared more than 10,000 tax returns and trained thousands of other tax professionals nationwide.

Andy is a cum laude graduate of Santa Clara University.

Andy is a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program.

In addition to his work here at Pronto, Andy has published hundreds of articles about financial and business topics. To view some of Andy’s writing and journalism work, you can plug “Andrew Freiburghouse” into Google and see a few samples.

Miguel is an expert at preparing Individual Taxpayer Identification Number applications (Form W-7), claims for the Earned Income Credit, and Schedule A Itemized Deductions.

Miguel can be reached by calling our East Los Angeles Office.Thank you Miguel for all that you do!

Over the summer of 2011, Tim was instrumental in developing Pronto Tax Class, our new course to help people become professional tax preparers. Putting in more than 400 hours of research and writing on the topic of income tax law, Tim showed that he has what it takes to learn this difficult business. We’ll tell you what, it’s not as easy as it looks sometimes, but when you work as hard as Tim has to learn this trade, hard work pays off.

Tim continues to expand his tax knowledge and bring advanced tax strategies to Pronto Clients, with a true passion for helping people. Tim has a generous spirit of caring towards other people and this really comes out when he is working with Pronto clients. Tim is known as a mentor within our company to other people.

Tim has become a major part of our Monrovia location during tax season and is looking forward to continuing the Frye family tradition of providing professional, affordable income tax preparation while building lasting relationships with clients and having a good time in the process.

Imelda is also a certified massage therapist who specializes in therapeutic massage for people with injuries or chronic pain–feel free to insert your own joke here about how that’s a good fit to work in a tax office because taxes can cause injuries and are a chronic pain! 🙂

Imelda is a multi-talented individual whose skills and experience create so much value for Pronto Tax clients, especially our self-employed and freelancer clients who benefit from her expertise with regard to self-employed tax deductions.

Imelda is further distinguished by her amazing budgeting and personal spending skills and she often shares budgeting tips with clients during the tax preparation experience.

Imelda holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree from Cal-State Long Beach in Business Administration: Finance, Real Estate, and Law.

Guess who can be the beneficiary of all Imelda’s hard work and study? YOU, our valued client. Imelda is living proof of what “start-up mentality” is all about: she is versatile, hard-working, and she just flat-out gets the job done.

A truly impressive lady and a fantastic member our team!

Clients enjoy Cindy’s friendly, conversational style and she is also admirably thorough, committing very few errors and always seeking to make sure everything is correct before a tax return goes out. When you do your taxes with Cynthia Lockie, you can feel secure knowing that she will get it right and make sure you don’t have any problems on your tax return.

Prior to joining the tax preparation business, Cynthia worked as a human resources manager.

Cynthia holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Management.

A citizen of both the United States and Mexico, Lilia has added a lot to our East L.A. office, teaming up with Miguel Perez to offer Spanish-speaking clients great service at a great price.

Lilia’s professionalism is outstanding and we are excited to see her growth as a tax preparer.

Lily has learned from the best and looks forward to continuing her path of getting better every year and building excellent long-term relationships with clients.

We are continuing to expect great things from the East L.A. office with Lilia as part of the team.

As she continues to work in Monrovia with the veterans of the tax business such as Jesse, Bertha, and Cindy Lockie, you can bet your bottom dollar that Nancy will continue to grow her skills and knowledge. Best of all, Nancy is committed to using her skills and knowledge for the benefit of Pronto Clients.

We are very lucky to have Nancy as part of our 2016 Pronto Tax Team!

Colleen has been instrumental in the build-out of our Pronto Tax School training platforms which now educate and credential thousands of tax professionals nationwide.

Whether it’s making websites, creating training videos, providing social media consulting, business consulting, this lady truly does have a wide variety of knowledge and talents.

Colleen’s work ethic and creativity about finding solutions makes her an incredibly valuable member of our team. Visit her website.

In addition to her graphic design skills, she’s also a wizard with translating our tax school training materials into Spanish.

Karen has been a key team member for numerous years now and is someone that we always count on to come through in the clutch.