At Gray CPA Consulting: Gail is the founding principal of Gray CPA Consulting. She works with our team to ensure we are providing a high quality of service to our clients. She is our Governmental Sector Subject Matter Expert for the Caseware GASB Template. She is the private sector subject matter expert for Caseware solutions for our Accounting and Corporate clients as well. She is the lead consultant and trainer for our Caseware Partnership Projects.

Personally: Gail values a strong work ethic and high-quality customer service. She believes this is what sets us apart in a very competitive workspace. If we take care of each of our clients like we would our family and become a part of their team, we will keep our clients successful and happy. Treating her team and her clients like family is a big deal to Gail because of her strong family values. She believes this is what empowers her team, and that her family empowers her.​

Off the Clock: Gail has a strong commitment to her family and it is important to her to be an influential part of their lives. True to her word, Gail serves as the family matriarch both on and off the clock, as we have many family members as part of our team. She and her husband love to take their family and friends to Mexico and share the blessings God has provided them. She has a strong faith in God and believes he is the provider of all we have and accomplish. Her dog, Grayce is her therapist. Her husband, Bob, is such a blessing and she could not accomplish all that she does without him being as supportive as he is.

Fav Quote: “l can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” - Philippians 4:13

Funky fact: Gail was a medic and a psych tech working in an inpatient psych hospital in the Army

LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/gail-gray-cpa-121b2136

Professional and Civic Involvement:

Firm member, Prime

Global GFOA Member

Education:

BA in Accounting, Methodist University

CPA Candidate
BS in Computer Science
Project and Development Manager

Caseware Authorized Instructor

At Gray CPA Consulting:  Matt manages our ongoing implementation and development projects. He also contributes to training materials and our Caseware library content. He is on our support team and offers governmental accounting as well as software specific support for our clients and our fellow team members. He also serves as a Caseware authorized trainer, consultant, and implementation specialist.

​Personally:  Matt believes that a project is not successful until the client believes it to be so. Matt also thinks work-life balance is important for our whole team. The staff at Gray CPAs has a tendency to overwork themselves - which is an awesome trait - but Matt has made it his mission to make sure everyone takes care of themselves. He also unofficially monitors the happiness and enrichment levels of our team and is the first to sound the alarm if someone needs a change of pace. 

Off the Clock:  Matt truly values the power of play and participates every year in Extra Life to raise funds to provide enrichment to chronic illness patients at Texas Children’s Hospital. Matt is passionate about all methods of gaming. Gaming is a way to provide education and healing to people as well as just for fun. Gaming is how we make connections and friends in our area and wherever we go. Matt also loves his family; including his wife, Natalie; their Dogs, Yuki and Vixen; their cats, Miss Kitty, Piwo, and Yotsuba. They almost always have a foster dog from the Texas Sled Dog Rescue as well.

Fav Quote:  "To infinity and beyond:" - Buzz Lightyear

Funky Fact:  Matt likes to build and assemble things like Legos, Gunpla, Models, and Miniatures

Daria Weiss has a unique combination of talents. She has both accounting and technology backgrounds rolled into one! She says, “Combining accounting and technology makes working with LSL a perfect fit for me!”

At the beginning of her career, she worked as an auditor at Ernst & Young in Minneapolis, MN. She then moved up to the National level in Cleveland, OH. Of that part of her career, she says, “Although I liked the problem-solving part of accounting, I realized I enjoyed technology a lot more.” Daria spent the last twelve years working at Caseware International, most recently as the Head of Product for the U.S. market.

As a Senior Manager in the Technology Consulting team at LSL, Daria works with clients on technology training, consulting, and implementation engagements. Her focus is on Caseware International’s suite of products, including Working Papers and USGAAP Financials, and RPA (Robotic Process Automation) technologies, such as UiPath.

Great Clients for Daria … Daria’s superpower is connecting the dots. When she worked at Caseware International, she was asked to help land a large U.S. Government contract. Of her role as the Product Manager for that project, she says, “I listened to the pain points the customer was experiencing. Through my product knowledge, I was able to identify solutions that would solve their problems within the product if adopted by the customer.”

LSL Candidate Tip … In today’s business world, it is exciting to find someone who knows accounting and technology. Daria works with clients to understand their requirements (pain points) as they embrace digital transformation in the accounting realm. Each company has unique needs. “I may play a project management role for clients who choose to incorporate applications on their own but need guidance in staying on track.” For other companies, Daria works with LSL’s teams to facilitate the implementation when clients choose to outsource all their accounting needs to LSL.

Personal … Daria loves to travel; her favorite place is the Scottish Highlands. She enjoys being outdoors. And summers will find her hiking and kayaking at her lake place. She prefers reading to watching television unless it’s sports. She is a huge fan of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (part of the Canadian Football League–U.S. equivalent to the NFL) and the Winnipeg Jets (in the NHL).

Education:

Bachelor of Arts in Accounting – University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, ND, and Diplomas in Business Administration and Hotel & Restaurant Administration from Red River College in Winnipeg, MB Canada.  

Caseware Authorized SDK Programmer

At Gray CPA Consulting: Ruan is an invaluable part of our support and development team. He is our champion of creative solutions for our most complex programming and accounting requests. His experience with Caseware in South Africa also gives him chops with international reporting standards and best practices. He is actively involved in and has experience with xbrl. We are very grateful to have him.​

Personally: Ruan values accuracy, reliability, loyalty, commitment, and honesty. These values are represented in the way he creates solutions and works with our colleagues and clients. He excels at setting clear and realistic expectations for special products and delivering on the challenges set before him. His creativity and technical expertise is an invaluable asset to our team.

Off the Clock: In Ruan’s words, “Live faithfully. Love God and Love others.” Ruan has a lovely family with whom he has relocated to Texas from South Africa. The whole family has musical talent and the rest of us at the office are waiting for the day we get a performance a-la von Trapp family :p Ruan misses his outdoor activities including hunting, shooting, and making his own biltong (air-dried jerky). We hope he can find these activities here in Texas!​

Fav Quote: “Impossible only means that you haven’t found the solution yet.” - Anonymous​

Funky Fact: According to Ruan, “ I’m right-handed but I got a left hand too.”

BSCS s: Digital Forensics and Information Assurance

Caseware Authorized SDK Programmer

At Gray CPA Consulting: Jordan is our lead programmer and technical support manager. He is also our lead builder for our customization projects. He is always up to date with the status of all of our clients. He knows where everyone’s projects are and what they need. We rely on his commitment to our clients and his consistency at work.

Personally: Jordan values an honest approach to work and his life. Just having a conversation with him and you’ll notice it. He is extremely giving to others; including his coworkers and our clients. There is a reason why our customers call looking for him, specifically, for even simple support questions.

Off the clock: In his free time, Jordan plays Chess and Tennis. He has played most of his life and hopes to continue playing through old age. His skill in both has earned him ranks, titles, and coaching positions. He has offered to teach us, but, frankly, that requires exercising outdoors - and not all of us are as excited about the prospect as Jordan is.

Fav Quote: Silence is a source of Great Strength.”― Lao Tzu

Funky fact: He knows his Korean name (But he won’t tell us!)