OUR BOOKKEEPING TEAM
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Founder and Owner
Senior Accountant & Bookkeeper
SUSAN VAN TASSEL
Since 1981, Susan has worked in non-profit as well as for profit Accounting and Bookkeeping.
A resident of Columbia County her whole life, Susan learned bookkeeping at an early age having been trained by her mother at her first job at age 18. Susan attended school at night at Columbia Greene Community College and then Sage College of Albany where she received her graduate degree in Accounting.
Along with her education, Susan received on-the-job training as a Para-Professional Accountant with Pattison, Koskey, Howe and Bucci (now known as UHY Inc.) She moved on from there to work for The Shaker Museum and Library as Financial Manager and The Columbia Land Conservancy as Accounting Coordinator.
In 2013 Susan decided to go out on her own and provide bookkeeping and accounting services for local small for-profit and not-for-profit companies. Over the last 8 years her business has bloomed to include 4 staff members and serves dozens of local businesses.
Senior Bookkeeper
COLIN BINGHAM
With nearly a decade of customer service experience, organizational skills, and money handling ability, Colin brings a wide variety of work experiences with him on his latest endeavor. His years of work experience include serving and bartending in the restaurant industry, managerial positions, vocational labors, as well as both software and website development. Paired with 4 years of education at Syracuse University, he is ready to dive into bookkeeping and accounting head first.
Originally working with some of SVT's largest clients, Colin now handles a variety of customers, both non and for profit. With a few years of hands on experience, he has assumed the role of primary bookkeeper of a number of various accounts.
JARED LINTON
Jared is a junior bookkeeper with numbers in his veins. Joining the company with his mother Susan, he is making SVT a true family business.
With customer service experience from early jobs in cafe's and farmers markets, as well as technical and professional experience from his time as a Warehouse Manager with COARC, his work ethic and desire to learn make him valuable addition to the SVT team. With constant training, he has become experienced and adept in all manner of bookkeeping tasks, services, and techniques.
With a few years of experience under his belt, he continues serving a large variety of client types and sizes as their primary bookkeeper and his work is helping to bring additional capacity and efficiency to SVT Bookkeeping as a whole.
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