Staff Accountant
Resume:
Tomoyuki Hosokawa
San Jose, CA
*************@*****.***
OBJECTIVE
Seeking an accounting and tax-related full-time temporary position (until June 2015) involving challenging and painstaking tasks
EDUCATION
San Jose State University, Lucas Graduate School of Business, San Jose, CA
Master of Business Administration, August 2013 - August 2014, GPA:3.52/4.00
Courses completed: Financial and Managerial Accounting, Financial Management, and Finance of High Tech Cases
Project Involved: Title-"Fan-Voyage.com", strategic business plan of a web-based group travel provider - Creation of projected financial statements, Break-even calculation and Sensitivity analysis
North Seattle College, Seattle, WA
CPA Preparation Program, June 2010 - June 2013, GPA: 3.59/4.00
Courses completed: Accounting Principles, Intermediate and Advanced Accounting, Individual Income Tax, and Auditing
Vice President/Dean's list: fall quarter 2010; spring and summer 2011;winter, spring and fall 2012; winter 2013
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology, April 1995 - March 1999, GPA: 3.43/4.00
SUMMARY OF SKILLS
. Financial and managerial accounting, and preparation of individual federal and California State income tax return
. Creation of diverse test cases and data, and testing of computer business system and feature phones
. UNIX, SQL, HTML, Microsoft Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Visual Basic of Application in Excel, and Visio
. Customer services skills, and basic design of computer business system
. English and Japanese language
EXPERIENCE
Quality Assurance Tester, Systena America Inc., San Mateo, CA, September 2014 - December 2014
. Tested an unreleased feature phone based on multiple points of view
. Executed various tests such as functionality and usability of applications, calls and text messages
. Investigated defects and reported them to the manager
. Inquired of the developer specifications of the phone and prepared bug reports
. Translated cases from Japanese to English, and English to Japanese
. Carried out field testing and reproduction testing of Android mobile phones
Volunteer Income Tax Return Preparer, United Way Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA, February 2014 - April 2014
. Passed the 2013 Advance Exam of VITA/TCE Certification Course
. Operated and mastered TaxWise
. Interviewed with customers as necessary to prepare tax return appropriately
. Reviewed other preparers' return
. Prepared 32 individual federal and California State income tax returns for customers with various backgrounds
Volunteer Income Tax Return Preparer, United Way of King County, Seattle, WA, January 2012 - April 2012
. Passed the 2011 Basic Exam of VITA/TCE Certification Course
. Operated and mastered TaxWise
. Interviewed with customers as necessary to prepare tax return appropriately
. Reviewed other preparers' return
. Prepared 39 individual federal income tax returns for customers with various backgrounds
Accounting Representative, NTT DATA Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, January 2004 - March 2010
. Belonged to Planning Group of Japan Patent Office Business Unit
. Created and reported financial plans annually and long-term (3 to 10 years), and performed budgetary control
. Designed and maintained a financial planning system using Visual Basic of Application in Excel
. Calculated a break-even point and helped the unit tender for contracts of Japan Patent Office and auxiliary organs
. Performed tasks responding to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act such as improvement of internal controls
. Inspected accounting documents of other business units as a part of internal audit
. Performed acquisition and retirement of fixed assets, and account closing procedures (monthly, quarterly and yearly)
System Engineer, NTT DATA Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, April 1999 - December 2003
. Belonged to System Development Group of Japan Patent Office Business Unit
. Maintained the subsystem that checks electronized application forms for acquisition of patent
. Created diverse test cases and data, and tested the system using them
. Addressed and responded to customers' queries about the system
. Investigated system problems reported by customers and corrected data errors
. Designed unique systems based on customers' demand
CERTIFICATIONS
. Volunteer Income Tax Assistance/Tax Counseling for the Elderly Certification Course (2013 Basic and Advanced Exam), February 2014
. Eligibility for the CPA exam in Washington State, December 2011
ACTIVITIES
. Volunteer, Sister Cities International 2014 Annual Conference, August 2014
. Volunteer, J-Pop Summit Festival and Japan Film Festival of San Francisco, July 2014
. Volunteer, Global Student Network at SJSU (New Students Arrival Program), January and August 2014
. Volunteer, NSC International Programs (Kizuna Project, Intensive English Program Graduation, White House Event, Lunar New Year Celebration, International Women's Day, New Students Orientation), July 2011 - June 2013
. Volunteer, Collector's Universe and Anime (Sakura-Con 2012), April 2012
. Volunteer, El Centro de la Raza (Christmas Tree Sale with El Centro de la Raza), December 2011
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