PRIVATE SECTOR EXPERIENCE

Current
  • Principal, Ryan, Houston office
    • Specializes in providing marketing cost deduction or post-production cost, well incentives, tax reimbursement, and royalty reviews to upstream oil and gas producers.
    • Provides ongoing severance tax and royalty compliance consulting services to clients on a multinational basis.
    • Has more than 20 years of state and local tax experience.
Previous
  • Director, Severance Tax/Royalty, Ryan, Houston office
  • Project Manager and Audit Lead, national oil and gas accounting firm

PUBLIC SECTOR EXPERIENCE

Previous
  • Auditor, Sales and Use Tax, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
  • Auditor, Severance Tax, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

Ms. Shipes lectures on various tax topics for Ryan clients and has appeared as a speaker for the following organizations:
  • American Petroleum Institute
  • P2 Energy Solutions’ ASCEND Conference

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • Independent Petroleum Association of America
  • Petroleum Accounting Society of Houston

EDUCATION/ACCREDITATION

  • Bachelor of Business Administration Degree, Accounting, McNeese State University
  • Bachelor of Arts Degree, History, Lamar University
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