Accountability, ethics and conscious business begins with people.
DMR Accounting & Consulting team members offer a new level of values for managing your financial future. Each brings years of consulting experience as well as an understanding of how the integrity of a firm impacts their clients. It is this integrity that sets DMR apart from the rest.
We invite you to meet the DMR Accounting & Consulting team
DMR Accounting & Consulting Team

Deidra Mills Ryan, CPA founded DMR Accounting & Consulting - Solutions for Conscious Business, a Texas CPA firm, in 2008 out of a desire to provide clients with non-traditional CPA firm specialized care in their day-to-day operations.
Deidra Ryan and her team support business owners by building a bridge between being intimidated by accounting and being empowered by it. She is the founder of Fearless Accounting and DMR Accounting & Consulting. Read More

Nayana Shahane joined DMR Accounting and Consulting in July 2017. She brings fifteen years of experience working with small businesses. In her role as the Operations Manager, she provides ongoing improvements to the company's internal processes including marketing, human resources, and CRM.

Carrie Jareed joined DMR Accounting and Consulting in June 2018. She brings more than twenty years of experience working with companies both on-site and virtually. In her role as the Client Services Coordinator for DMR Accounting & Consulting, she provides customer service support and onboarding for new clients.

Dianne Szabo joined DMR Accounting and Consulting in August 2019. She earned her BS in Computer Science with a minor in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University and has worked in the corporate sector for over 10 years. Additionally, she’s become familiar with architectural and construction accounting through past and current client work including managing the finances of her own construction company and multifamily real estate. Dianne is passionate about learning and enjoys studying economics and astronomy. She loves traveling with her husband and daughter.

Courtney Schacherer joined DMR Accounting and Consulting in December 2019. At that time she also graduated from Utah Valley University with a degree in Computer Science. Courtney has three years of bookkeeping experience assisting a property management company. She enjoys the detailed nature of this work and helping clients to have a clear picture of their financials. Courtney enjoys spending time with her puppy and gardening in her free time.

Elsie Meyer joined DMR Accounting and Consulting in November 2021. She completed her Associate degree in Accounting and Bookkeeping in May 2022. She enjoys the exact nature of the accounting process and working with small business owners. In her spare time, she likes to spend time with her family, playing board games, and taking road trips to visit National Parks.
Deidra Mills Ryan, CPA founded DMR Accounting & Consulting - Solutions for Conscious Business, a Texas CPA firm, in 2008 out of a desire to provide clients with non-traditional CPA firm specialized care in their day-to-day operations.
Deidra Ryan and her team support business owners by building a bridge between being intimidated by accounting and being empowered by it. She is the founder of Fearless Accounting and DMR Accounting & Consulting.
She has had a passion for teaching since she was very young. Her unique training and mentoring style helps CEOs, managers and accounting staff move through their natural fears and doubts around their numbers to their ultimate success and freedom. Deidra has worked with for-profit and non-profit clients in many industries and her ideal clients are eager to learn and are in a growth mode with their businesses. They are savvy and have come to understand the importance of the true power of accounting.
As a busy mom and professional, Deidra strongly believes in the power of self-care. She created and owns MyAnytimeSpa which features her luxurious oatmeal exfoliant.
Deidra is a community activist and philanthropist who supports Urban Roots, Austin International School, St. Theresa Catholic Church and St. Louis House for mothers and children facing homelessness. She is a former board member of YouthLaunch, which helps young people make a difference in their lives by making a difference in their community.
Deidra, her husband, Kyle, and their two trilingual children have a lifetime love for learning and adventure. They enjoy Zach Scott and Georgetown Palace theaters, hiking at state & local parks, traveling and cross county road trips including visiting state capitol buildings. They are also pickle connoisseurs and enjoy periodic “pickle runs” to Fredericksburg to stock up on their favorite homemade dill pickles. They also love animals and enjoy their sucker fish and backyard deer as well as horses, their black lab, Maya and lucky black cat, Ella.
Kyle Ryan is a results-oriented Information Technology (IT) professional who has worked in IT for over 10 years. He has worked on projects for several industry leaders. Some of the projects involved:
- Converting an existing green screen application for a major pharmaceutical into a dynamic web application using Spring and Hibernate on the back end and ExtJS on the front end.
- Working with Alfresco to publish marketing information to the corporate extranet of a major television network.
- Automating an existing manual order management process, using EDI and BizTalk 2006. The result of the automation significantly reduced manual input errors and freed three data entry people to focus on other aspects of the business.
- Integrating a large financial corporation with two large partners allowing it to transact with up to 250,000 new retailers.
Specializing in enterprise java solutions, Kyle has a long history of completing complex integration projects on time, while working with the following technologies:
- Languages: Java, C# perl, shell scripting, groovy and python
- Databases: Oracle, MS SQL Server and MySQL using SQL and PL/SQL
- Application Frameworks: Jboss, Weblogic, Alfresco, BizTalk, Pentaho, Liferay and NetSuite
In addition to enterprise level applications, Kyle has developed several web sites. Examples of his work are:
- Get Things Done LLC
- Austin Regional Clinic: Created an appointment scheduling and tracking application for their public website. Built their corporate intranet, which facilitated
communication between their many clinics.
- Deborah Main Designs: Implemented a shopping cart where Deborah was able to sell her products.