Ryan Jenkins

Enrolled Agent

Ryan began his 20+ years of corporate experience working locally for Marriott before packing up all of his belongings and moving to southern California where he took a job working for Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank.  Eventually, he moved back to the east coast and in 2006, he met his wife and settled down in Ashburn, Virginia as the graphic design and web development director for a large Methodist church in the area.  In 2013, Matthew bought out the business from its founder, his mother, Patrice, and wanted to increase the company’s online presence with a website and he turned to Ryan to help get this started.

Matthew knew he wanted Ryan onboard to continue managing this aspect of his company but he also asked him if he would be interested in learning to prepare taxes.  After discussions with family, Ryan decided to make this career change.  He enrolled in H&R Block’s intensive tax course in October 2014, and passed at the top of his class.  He spent the next tax season working for Block and was one of the most successful first year preparers his branch had – all this while also keeping his other day job, too.  A few months after the close of the 2015 tax season, he started working full time at Lincoln Tax Professionals.

During his time here at Lincoln Tax, Ryan also began studying to take the Enrolled Agent’s exam to earn his E.A. designation just as Matthew had.  He accomplished this goal in September of 2019, after passing all three sections of the exam on his first attempt.  Ryan’s strengths naturally lean towards helping his clients better market and develop their businesses and he will also be specializing in clergy returns in the office.