Overview
Calibrate delivers consistency and clarity by offering a wide array of customized professional services and delivers expected results. We are committed to helping our clients succeed by fine tuning their financials and overall operational efficiencies. We have the professional knowledge, resources, technology and commitment to be the “go to” partner for our clients.
Calibrate offers online portals so clients can easily access copies of their data and documentation 24 hours a day.
At Calibrate we continually invest in new technology to promote both internal and external efficiencies. We utilize a secure computer-based electronic “Work Paper Documentation System” and our office is completely paperless. We also continually upgrade our team member work stations and software to ensure that we are working with the latest in state-of-the-art technology.
Our Team members are evaluated to ensure that Calibrate provides the professional work environment to fit their needs, their personalities and their professional goals. Ongoing education is essential to our team’s development and our client’s success.
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Our Mission & Values
Calibrate is dedicated to earning the trust and respect of every client. We strive to become your long term, trusted advisors by carefully evaluating your financial and business objectives and providing strategic and innovative solutions that will positively impact your bottom line.
In fulfilling our mission, we endeavor to provide the highest quality services possible. Through strong leadership, clear and concise communications and dedicated Account Managers, we always deliver upfront pricing, guaranteed response times and consistent professional results.
By combining business innovation and state-of-the-art technologies with the industry’s highest caliber licensed CPAs, Calibrate delivers the utmost efficiencies and peace of mind to every client relationship.
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Leadership
Our Board of Advisors and Executive team is comprised of experienced business leaders and CPAs with a broad array of business backgrounds. We know that growing a company takes steady leadership, broad-based business knowledge and industry expertise… Calibrate provides all three.
Tina Callahan, CPA, Chief Executive Officer
Tina Callahan, Chief Executive Officer
After about eight years working in the accounting industry, Tina Callahan began to blossom as an entrepreneur in 2005 when she became a partner in Tilley & Callahan CPAs. As partner, Tina aimed to elevate the high standard of service the firm’s clients had come to expect. She worked to develop and implement a unique vision for a cooperative, team-oriented corporate community, and placed a stronger emphasis on education for both clients and employees alike.
With the retirement of partner Steve Tilley in 2009, Tina took over ownership and daily operations and renamed the firm Calibrate CPAs. With the new incarnation of the company, Tina aims to inject efficiency, creativity, and a higher standard of service into every aspect of the business. Calibrate’s objective and mission is to help its customers “fine tune their financials,” and the company’s broad menu of services gives clients the security and peace of mind that comes with having all of their financial and accounting needs met in a professional and personalized way.
Tina has made lifelong learning and relationship building a focal point of her practice. She has been past president of her BNI chapter and serves on the Director Team, and also participates as a board member for several of her clients. Tina has been a pioneer in the area of Deming Management philosophy, a never-ending pursuit of quality and excellence.
Earlier in her career, Tina began sharpening her skills in building personal relationships working in government service for the City of Madison, Wisconsin. There she learned the importance of procedure and accuracy in her daily activities. She received a bachelor’s degree and later a Master’s Degree in Accounting from Upper Iowa University. She is currently a licensed CPA in both Wisconsin and Florida.
Now a long-time resident of Jacksonville, Florida, Tina enjoys spending time traveling the world, relaxing on the beach, and being active in her faith. Most importantly, Tina thrives on spending time with family. She and her husband, Paul, have two cats, Marley and Maceo. Despite her strong business drive, Tina considers her family her greatest success and first priority, demonstrating her firm belief that the most important aspect of life is personal relationships. Two items on Tina’s current Bucket List are to ride in a hot air balloon and rent a Ferrari for the weekend.
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Amy Malerba, Chief Operating Officer
Amy Malerba, Chief Operating Officer
Amy Malerba comes to Calibrate with more than 10 years of experience in the financial services and banking industries. A graduate of the University of Florida, School of Banking, Amy became a Branch Manager and Vice President for a leading Jacksonville bank in 2001. In the first two years of her leadership, the bank achieved $35 million in production growth and became one of the largest producing branches in Northeast Florida.
A strong believer in the power of relationships, Amy has built her business acumen by, above all else, cultivating strong personal ties with her peers and colleagues. This philosophy extends to Amy’s personal and civic life, as well. Amy enjoys nothing more than spending time with those close to her, including her husband, Mario, her dog, Rudy, and a wide network of friends across the country. In addition, she contributes much of her free time and energy working in the non-profit field of catastrophic illnesses.
Amy is a past President of her BNI Chapter and Vice President of the Professional Women’s Council of the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce. She also serves as a volunteer for several other networking and non-profit organizations.
A long time resident of Jacksonville, Florida, Amy is an avid swimmer and an Italian-speaking world traveler. Several items on Amy’s current Bucket List include attending a U2 concert, traveling to Vegas and – whether with one small gesture or through a major initiative – to bring positive change to someone’s life. Amy believes that, while everything happens for a reason, we are ultimately in control of our own destiny. With that belief as her foundation, Amy is always anxious to embark on whatever adventure life brings next!
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Board of Advisors
Kim DeLettre – Read Full Bio
Kim specializes in Financial Management for her employers. With over 20 years of experience, she has the ability to guide her staff to improving and implementing new policies and procedures that enhance the day-to-day operations of a business. Her background includes every aspect beginning with the balancing of the Financial Statements to tying out with all accounting modules. Putting in place special security processes that enhance the protection of the business and the staff itself. Kim enjoys her working with others to achieve the same goals and admirations.
Some of Kim’s accomplishments and interests are:
- Multiple Tax Seminars
- Motivational Speaking Seminars
- Member of Resurrection Episcopal Church
- Annual Audit for the Resurrection Church Gratis
Kim has been married to her husband, Bill since 1999. They have a four-legged child Harley. She loves to scuba dive, read a great mystery book and visit the beach as often as possible.
Kim has the unique ability to “Inspiring a high level of trust and confidence for the corporate small business experience to create and provide unique solutions for the day-to-day operations.”
Michael Hodges – Read Full Bio
Michael Hodges has held a real estate license in the state of Florida since October 1988. He opened his first property management firm as its broker/owner, Secured Property Services, Inc. in June of 1990 and has never looked back. He spends countless hours trying to improve and the professionalism of the property management industry. After selling his first property management business he directed property management for a midsize firm with two offices before taking on the position of Vice President/Broker for the largest property management firm in the North Florida area and its seven offices in the area.
He is a member of the NAR (National Association of Realtors), FAR (Florida Association of Realtors), NEFAR (Northeast Florida Association of Realtors), NARPM (National Association of Residential Property Managers), FARPM (Florida Association of Residential Property Managers) and NEFARPM (Northeast Florida Association of Residential Property Managers).
He currently is the 2009/10 Legislative Chair and Chair for FARPM, Inc. a state association founded to promote the general welfare of real estate property management in the state of Florida. He served has its Treasurer from 2004 through 2006. He is currently a PRM designee (Professional Residential Manager) and should complete his requirements in September.
He also serves on various committees for NARPM which is the National Association of Residential Property Managers as a Mentor to other property managers wanting to increase their professionalism through designations, the 2007 Legislative Committee and the 2007 National convention committee. He is an RMP (Residential Management Professional) and is a MPM designee and should receive his designation in September 2007 National convention. This is designation is held by less than 100 people nationwide.
In addition, on a local level Michael has served as President and is the current Treasurer for NEFARPM. As a Realtor he currently serves on the 2008 Education Task Force, Professional Standards (Since 2004) and the 2007 Legislative and Candidate Screening committees.
Before Michael found his passion in real estate property management field he graduated from Jacksonville University with a BS degree in Accounting in 1981.
He work with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida auditing hospitals in the state of Florida and through out the country for Medicare and Medicaid Third Party Reimbursement program for 8 years before taking the position of Financial Analyst and Third Party Reimbursement for St. Vincent’s Medical Center.
He most recently purchased a small firm with 112 accounts on February 1, 2005 and in less than 2.5 years has grown to over 450 accounts.
His other passions are College football and his daughter who is an Art Psychologist.
Matt Kruse – Read Full Bio
Since 2001 Matt has worked in the financial services industry, a much different career from his start in custom home electronics. It was his time at Hoyt Stereo in Jacksonville Beach that exposed him to entrepreneurship and the value of building a company with a dedication to quality.
Matt began his focus on business ownership when he started a successful insurance agency with his father, Paul and brother, Nathan in 2001. The Kruse Agency quickly grew into one of the most successful captive agencies in the nation as measured by annual premiums collected. While learning the insurance business, Matt discovered the natural relationships that exist between real estate professionals and financial services providers. He worked to bring professionals together with an emphasis on teaching clients the inner-workings of the business.
Matt’s crowning achievement with the agency was the creation of an education team that delivered training to first time homebuyers in the Jacksonville area twice per month. During a 14 months span, the team helped place 95 families into homes. In 2004, Matt had the opportunity to sell the business, and he realized the opportunity to head into the real estate finance marketplace.
As Matt began to learn the finance business, he discovered the world’s largest referral marketing organization – BNI. Along the path to success, BNI has been instrumental in placing clients and referral partners into Matt’s life at just the right time. His involvement in the organization led to his accepting of an opportunity to lead a new retail program at Macquarie Mortgages. While there Matt learned about corporate culture, lending practices and wealth creation strategies.
Currently, Matt is working on two projects – a thriving real estate lending practice and weedott. Weedott was started at the end of 2008 with his partner Amy Jantzer, a fellow BNI director in North East Florida. They recognized the emergence of social media as an innovative communication platform for businesses, sales professionals and business owners to communicate with their prospects, customers and clients. His passion is to teach others how to use the technology to further growth in their own companies.
Jacksonville has been home to Matt, his wife Monica and their two children Grant and Mädchen since 1997. He and Monica both graduated from the University of Florida, and they routinely travel down for Gator games. Matt’s burning desire is to raise his kids to love his Lord Jesus Christ. His other passion is perfecting his outdoors cooking skills and throwing get-togethers for his friends.
Trace Milam – Read Full Bio
Employee Benefits Consultant
Vandroff Insurance Agency
Trace is a native Floridian being raised in Gainesville Florida and spending the past 20 years in Jacksonville Florida. Trace graduated from the University of Florida in the summer of 1988 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.
Trace entered the insurance business in 1989 and has specialized in Employee Benefits Consulting the past 12 years. He works with companies and their employees to help manage, administer and understand their benefit programs as they continually evolve.
Trace is a board member for the Jacksonville Humane Society and a mentor through the Delores Pass Kesler Foundation.
Trace and his wife, Tammy, have a daughter named Abigail; and two cats, Puddin’ and Sylvester.
Paul Parsons – Read Full Bio
Through his participation in the development of a standardized system for process improvement, Paul was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the establishment of Calibrate CPAs. Before joining the team at Calibrate, he worked among administrators from customer-focused companies for more than fifteen years to enhance this ability. Paul is certified to train several adult occupational courses as well as has an extensive background in various process improvement projects. Prior to consulting with Calibrate CPAs, he learned the value of teamwork during his service with the United States Navy. While working throughout the world, he learned the importance of integrity and strong work ethics while also using valuable time to have fun and experience the cultures the world has to offer.
An avid traveler, Paul had visited over twenty countries. One of his most memorable experiences is making it to the summit of Mt. Fuji while stationed in Japan.
Paul earned his degree in History and Political Science from the University of North Florida.
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