We have a dozen employees in our office during the peak time of our season, which is of course, tax season.  Tax Season runs from late January until April 15th, the tax filing deadline.

Joseph J. Scouloukas

Joe is the branch office manager for Strongsville Accounting & Tax Service.  He is in charge of running the office, making all of the tough decisions, as well as client satisfaction.  That is his # 1 job.  Joe will often remind all of the employees that “if you don’t take care of your clients, someone else will”.  Client service and customer satisfaction is our biggest goal.  Joe also meets with our clients to go over any of their retirement questions or goals.

Joe and his wife Deena reside in Painesville Township with their daughter Abby.

Patricia May

Patty has been doing taxes for nearly twenty years.  Prior to joining Strongsville Accounting & Tax, Patty was doing personal taxes at this same office, but under Kozie Financial, before William Kozie retired.  Patty is one of the most trusted and well liked tax preparers in our office, having done some of our client’s taxes for the last twenty years.

Patty and her husband Gus live in Strongsville, Ohio. They have 4 children and 4 grand children.   

Jackie Kottke

Jackie is one of our two administrative assistants in our office.  She is the one that answers the phones when our clients call or sets appointments for the clients to meet with their respective tax preparers.  Jackie is our “Cost Basis Queen” and figures out the correct cost basis for a client upon the sale of a stock or mutual fund.  She also performs various administrative tasks in the office.  She is also a graduate of Ohio Northern University.

Jackie is married to her husband Jim.  They have a daughter, Alina, and live in Parma Hts.

Denise Walters. 

Denise is the accounting part of Strongsville Accounting & Tax Service.  Besides doing the administrative work in the office, she is in charge of payroll, filing quarterly tax reports, and bookkeeping for our business clients.  She is a talented administrative assistant and also helps out with the preparation of income taxes.

Denise resides here in Strongsville with her son and daughter.

 Dean Scouloukas

Dean is the manager of the Insurances Services Division of Strongsville Accounting & Tax Service.  He provides our clients with an array of all various lines of insurance.  Dean offers Life, Health, Disability, Long Term Care and is looking to receive his Property & Casualty License to write insurance on home and automobiles.

Dean is the founder & facilitator of NEO Referrals, a professional networking group for local business owners.   

Harry E Remington

Harry is one of the newest members of our firm.  Harry services all of our new and “walk in” clients.  Harry has been preparing taxes for five years now.  He has enrolled in and passed the H&R Block Tax Preparation Course and is currently working on becoming a CPA via enrolling in courses at Lakeland.

Harry and his wife Carolyn have five children and live in Chardon, Ohio.

Patrick L Remington

Pat joined our office along with his brother Harry.  Pat handles the majority of clients who drop off or mail in their taxes to our office.  In addition to preparing some of these taxes, Pat also serves as quality control to the rest of the tax team, which means he checks the returns to make sure we are utilizing every credit and deduction we can use.   

Pat and his wife Jill live in Chardon, Ohio with their daughter Erica and son Patrick.  

Amber Raines

Amber joined our team in 2007 where she is an administrative assistant. Her tasks include answering phones, scheduling appointments and filing.  Amber is a college student at Otterbein University where she is currently enrolled in the nursing program.  She usually works with us over the summer and during her winter and spring breaks.

John Pohorence

John is the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in our office.  He has been a practicing CPA since 2002.  

John is married with four children.