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Career Accomplishment Summary
of Thomas Kalajian
Thomas Kalajian is a highly trained and experienced
financial services professional. Thomas Kalajian is unique in that
he is proficient in integrating, planning and coordinating multiple financial
and administrative disciplines for achieving extraordinary results for both
client and community objectives.
Tom
Kalajian earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration
with a concentration in Accounting, holds a designation by the National
Association of Certified Valuation Analysts as an Accredited Valuation Analyst
(AVA). Thomas Kalajian is a former CPA, licensed with the State
of California from 1975 to 2001, after which he continued his income tax
and accounting practice as a Registered Tax Preparer under the auspices
of the California Tax Education Council as a CRTP,
offering greater flexibility for broader services to his clients.
Thomas Kalajian is a published author on
business valuation, is a graduate of the Accountant's Boot Camp as a qualified
Business Development Specialist from the prestigious international training
organization, Results Accountants' Systems, is an award-winning Toastmaster
speaker, and nominee for Businessman of the Year with the Santa Ana Chamber
of Commerce.
Thomas
Kalajian was the Southern California Armenian community coordinator for
the most successful membership drive to date in the history of Orange County's
PBS station KOCE-TV, is a member of the founding Executive Committee of
the Orange County Armenian Festival, the first pan-Armenian festival of
its kind in North America.
Thomas Kalajian
was the only business and tax commentator for ten years on Orange County's
first cable news network, Orange County NewsChannel (OCN), is a visiting
lecturer with Chapman University's School of Broadcast Journalism, is an
organizing volunteer for fund-raising and organization for multiple school
projects, including fine arts and athletic programs.
Thomas Kalajian is an accomplished seminar
leader and speaker on topics of income tax reduction, business development
and profit improvement strategies and systems, and frequently contributes
his time and efforts to charitable and cultural organizations throughout
Orange County and the Southland.
Thomas Kalajian is a member
of the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts, the Institute
of Business Appraisers and was accepted as a member of American Mensa, Ltd.
Thomas Kalajian is a veteran
of the U.S. Army, completed electronics training in the Signal Corps in
Ft. Monmouth, NJ in Fixed Plant Radio Equipment Repair (MOS 34E20), moving
on to graduate the advanced course and earning a promotion to the rank of
Specialist 4, and ended his volunteer enlistment in Viet Nam with an honorable
discharge as the Signal Corps' Transportation Coordinator of "I Corps" quadrant,
headquartered in Nha Trang.
Thomas Kalajian won the
first place trophy at his first attempt at desert motorcycle racing in the
Novice division of the CRC, riding a modified Hodaka 100B, and thereafter
retired from the hobby.
In his early education
years, Thomas Kalajian earned his amateur radio Technician Class license
at age 14 from the FCC as call sign WA6JAM, was elected the president of
the Radio Club, won a science fair award on Transistor Theory and Operation,
and appeared on a summer television program on science on the topic of transistor
operation circa 1959. Thomas Kalajian went on to be elected the president
of the honorary Electoneers Club, supported in part by the engineers at
the Pasadena Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Thomas Kalajian played
the double bass (bass viol) in the school orchestra, which he later converted
to electric bass guitar, which he still enjoys as a musician with a band
specializing in authentic Armenian and Anatolian folk dancing music since
the early 1960's.
In his elementary years,
Thomas Kalajian won art awards and was a featured young watercolor artist
for his unique attention to detail and perspective at the Pasadena Art Museum,
later renamed the Norton Simon Museum of Art. Thomas Kalajian speaks
the Western dialect of the Armenian language.
"...
[Thomas Kalajian,
in his career as a CPA]
has demonstrated the utmost
integrity, objectivity and dedication to his clients..."
Christian Frederiksen, CPA
"...Thomas
Kalajian [in his career as a CPA] possess the highest degree of competence
as a Certified Public Accountant."
Richard J. Aprahamian,
Attorney at Law
"... [Thomas Kalajian in his
career as a CPA] has the highest degree of integrity I have ever seen..."
Robert B. Breskin, CPA
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