Joe graduated with an accounting degree from San Diego State University in 1997. Joe has been a licensed California Real Estate Broker since 1997, and is currently not actively practicing any real estate services. Joe is a member of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Prior to beginning his career in public accounting, Joe was the operations/accounting manager at a local mortgage banking company.  Joe enjoys working with family businesses and has a good understanding of the dynamics having worked with his own parents in their family business to begin his accounting career.  Joe also worked in accounting and management at a local Fortune 500 company before joining Nasif, Hicks, Harris & Co., LLP in 2010.

Joe provides tax services for corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies and their owners.  He specializes in the wine industry, international exporters and the implementation and maintenance of a Domestic International Sales Corporation.

Joe moved to Santa Barbara from Lake Tahoe in 1986 and is a proud Dos Pueblos Charger alumni. Joe enjoys golf, skiing, snowboarding, fishing and recreational lobster diving at Santa Barbara’s Channel Islands

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