Experience Portfolio
The work history that built
the cleanup brain you are hiring
This is not a list of job titles. It is the long, nonlinear path that turned years of accounting roles, broken systems, and reconstruction work into a brain that now specializes in structural QuickBooks cleanup, diagnostic reviews, and multi year reconstruction for complex files.
If your QuickBooks file feels chaotic, that is normal for the kind of work I do. My entire background is in fixing accounting systems that stopped telling the truth. This page shows why I am comfortable walking straight into the mess and rebuilding it with structure, clarity, and accuracy.
Every role sharpened pattern recognition, systems thinking, and the urge to fix what everyone else simply tolerates in their QuickBooks file.
Start with a paid diagnostic review before any cleanup is quoted.
Yup, that is me too. Immortalized in a Funko team catalog. And yes, of course I kept it. You would keep proof you were a superhero too.
Not a resume, more like a highlight reel of chaos I rebuilt
I have been dropped into a lot of environments where the numbers did not match reality. Archaic systems. Vendor issues. Construction companies with no service workflows. Municipal reporting that took months. None of it was simple. None of it was just do the job and go home work.
I kept rebuilding workflows, designing reporting paths, and creating structure where none existed. That same brain now drives my QuickBooks Online cleanup work: structural rebuild first, pattern analysis second, transaction repair third.
Every role on this page involved structural accounting work long before I specialized in QuickBooks cleanup. I rebuilt departments, systems, and frameworks. Those same pattern recognition skills now power my diagnostic reviews and reconstruction projects.
Rebuilds plus redesigns
Rebuilds, redesigns, and all the moments where someone asked why the numbers were not working
I have more than twenty five years of structural accounting experience that supports complex QuickBooks cleanup. My background includes multi entity reconstruction, reconciliation repair, pattern based reviews, and restoring accuracy in systems that no longer reflected reality. This is the foundation of my diagnostic first approach.
These are the systems, departments, workflows, and reporting engines I rebuilt long before FTLOBs existed. Every one of them shaped the cleanup logic I use today.
ZUMIEZ • AP SYSTEMS REVIEW • 2014
Candice rebuilt our entire vendor research workflow so the team did not have to jump between multiple systems and screens. The tool she created eliminated duplicates, reduced errors, and saved significant processing and research time every week.
Her process documentation became the training material for new hires and is still used across AP. She consistently solved problems other people escalated and improved accuracy across every step of the workflow.
Zumiez Accounting and AP Leadership
Foundation years
Learning how money actually moves
Early roles in finance departments, bookkeeping, and insurance taught me how cash, people, and process intersect long before QuickBooks cleanup was my job title.
Systems builder era
If it was broken, I rebuilt it
Starbucks, Zumiez, Holmberg, Funko, and Mountlake Terrace were completely different industries with one shared problem. Their systems did not work. So I rebuilt them.
Cleanup only era
For The Love of Bookkeepers
Today I run a cleanup only, diagnostic first firm focused on structural QuickBooks Online cleanup, multi year reconstruction, and balance sheet accuracy so CPAs, owners, and bookkeeping teams can trust the reports.
What this means for your QuickBooks file
This is the brain that will be inside your cleanup project
When I take on a project, I am not recording random fixes. I am rebuilding the structure behind your QuickBooks file. I map misconfigurations, analyze patterns, and plan structural cleanup so your reports finally match reality.
Pattern radar, not checkbox work
I look for contradictions between business reality and what the file is reporting. Cleanup is about structural logic, not individual transactions.
Systems first, transactions second
Company settings, Chart of Accounts, reconciliations, and workflows get rebuilt first so every cleanup entry sits on solid structure.
Diagnostic first, always
Every project starts with a Complete Check diagnostic review that maps structural issues, misconfigurations, and anomalies before cleanup begins.
Want this level of experience pointed at your QuickBooks file
If your books are messy, multi year, or structurally broken, this is the brain behind the person who will rebuild them. The next step is a diagnostic review that shows what broke, why it broke, and what it will take to fix it.
If you made it this far, thanks for reading. Begin the Complete Check.