Michael Belofsky

Current

Owner at Purcellville Pinball & Slots
Sr. Manager at Fannie Mae

Past

Sr. Developer at Fannie Mae
Consultant at MYTA
Project Manager at Callidus Software

Sr. Consultant at Brightware
Sr. Consultant at Mindbox ( formerly Brightware)
Sr. Consultant at Inference
Member of the Technical Staff at TASC
AI Developer at Navistar International
Researcher at Univeristy of Dayton Research Institute

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Education

Arizona State University
State University of New York at Buffalo

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Industry

Financial Services

Michael Belofsky’s Summary

I enjoy getting results. I am currently working as the Sr. Manager, Business Analysis, Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) at Fannie Mae. My past experience includes developing and managing procedures and other documentation, developing training courses and teaching these courses, and working in the area of Artificial Intelligence, especially expert systems.

Seasoned Manager of Business Analysis in a Business-To-Technology group with 20 years of business and development experience, specifically over 10 years of experience leading a team of business and technical analysts. Coordinated and collaborated with technical and business teams to ensure business analysts delivered professionally-written business and technical requirements on time and met stakeholder needs.

Michael Belofsky’s Specialties:

Technical Specifications
Secret Clearance (can be reinstated)
Project Management
Software Design
Business Rule Design
Reporting
Requirements Analysis
Data Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Word, Excel, Access, Project, Visio, PowerPoint.
• ASP, HTML, XML, JavaScript, Visual Basic, C/C++, LISP, Pascal.
• Access, Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server.
• SharePoint, DOORS, Clear Case, Clear Quest, Remedy, Mercury Test Center.
• ART*Enterprise, iLog
• Windows, Unix, Sun Workstation, Lisp Machines

Michael Belofsky’s Experience

Owner

Purcellville Pinball & Slots

(Financial Services industry)

December 2004 — Present (5 years )

I enjoy owning, playing and fixing pinball machines and antique slot machines. This hobby/business provides the opportunity to meet many people either to fix their game or buy or sell games. The goal of this business is to provide honest and fair repair services to people in my local community. I want to keep pinball machines alive and well so that Stern, the only remaining pinball manufacturer, can continue to innovate and sell new machines. Just as I love teaching and training at my full time position, I enjoy teaching people about pinball machines and training them on the simple fixes so that they can maintain their machines and enjoy them more.
Sr. Manager

Fannie Mae

(Public Company; FNM; Financial Services industry)

February 2002 — Present (7 years 10 months)

Sr. Manager - 2002 - 2009 - Led the efforts of business and technical teams through each stage of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) resulting in on-time delivery of key initiatives that met stakeholder objectives. Specifically:

• Lead the scope and business analysis for the Home Affordable Modification Program. Wrote the scope and business requirements for the 1st lien program and the 2nd lien program. Managed a team of procedures writers for Operational procedure documents. Built up and managed a team of 6 analyst and procedure writers as the scope and depth of the system grew.

• Automated the data management capabilities of a large-scale system to ensure adherence to SOX controls. Managed over 60 transaction events, maintained over 20 data flows, and created an application to manage the movement of data, automated a mark to market process, and generated quarterly credit enhancement reports.

• Managed the implementation of a consolidated underwriting guide. This included business rules, data mappings, and messaging to external lenders. Significantly decreased documentation times by 20%. This repository included over 75 technical specifications.

• Led the conversion of a rules-based underwriting system from one expert system to another. Ensured functionality in old system matched functionality in new system 100%.
Sr. Developer

Fannie Mae

(Financial Services industry)

February 2001 — February 2002 (1 year 1 month)

Sr. Developer, 2001 – Rules-based expert system developer for an automated underwriting system. Specifically:
• Utilized in-depth understanding of the rules-based application to improve performance and improve the coding techniques of the development team.

• Developed and taught informal code development training sessions to other developers.
Consultant

MYTA

(Financial Services industry)

2001 — 2001 (less than a year)
Project Manager

Callidus Software

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; CALD; Computer Software industry)

May 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 9 months)

I was project manager on several projects through out the country. I enjoyed working at Callidus and with the many talented people here. They have a great suite of products.

Clients included AOL and ICG.
Sr. Consultant

Brightware

(Computer Software industry)

December 1995 — April 1999 (3 years 5 months)

• Designed and coded the first score card for an automated underwriting system (at Fannie Mae).

• Developed and taught company-specific training classes to internal consultants and customers. Improved the training curriculum, which is the first interaction between the customer and consulting firm, to be more professional and complete.
Sr. Consultant

Mindbox ( formerly Brightware)

(Financial Services industry)

1995 — 1999 (4 years )

I never worked for Mindbox, but did work for them when they were Inference Corporation and Brightware.
Sr. Consultant

Inference

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; INFR; Computer Software industry)

1992 — 1998 (6 years )

(Note that I left Inference for a year to work at TASC.)

• Investigated the root cause of several problems for a large-scale scheduling system. Resolved and tested the solution in less than one month compared to a four month, three person proposed solution by the company that originally implemented the system. Saved the company over $220,000 compared to the proposed solution. Engaged with the client an additional seven months to implement additional systems.

• Automated a manpower scheduling system at a food processing plant to improve resource allocation, decrease costs, and increase employee satisfaction.

• Worked on a large-scale project at American Express to automate the customer care experience.
Member of the Technical Staff

TASC

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 1994 — November 1995 (1 year 4 months)

I was hired to work on their Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) projects. With my background in Artificial Intelligence, I was looking forward to this. A week before I started working there, the only person that knew Inferernce's Case Based Reasoning System application quit, Since I just came from Inference, I was placed on this CBR project to assist with the documentation for the Comanche Helicopter project.
AI Developer

Navistar International

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NAV; Automotive industry)

1988 — 1992 (4 years )

Conceived, designed, and implemented a special quotation system to allow the tracking of custom truck design features faster and more accurately than before. Saved Navistar over $3 million a year by eliminating duplicated efforts among engineering teams.
Researcher

Univeristy of Dayton Research Institute

(Financial Services industry)

1984 — 1988 (4 years )

I worked in the Basic Research Lab at Williams Air Force Base in Arizona. This basic research lab was in the area of vision research. Luckily my full time position provided the ability to use this research for my Master's Thesis to model vision control during a visual monitoring task.

Michael Belofsky’s Education

Arizona State University

MS , Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence , 1982 — 1987

Worked in Dr. Findler's Artificial Intelligence lab. Also worked at Williams Air Force Base doing AI in the basic research lab.
State University of New York at Buffalo

Computer Science 1981 — 1982

Attended my freshman year. Most of my computer classes and research were at the Ridge Lee campus. I transferred to ASU.

Additional Information

Michael Belofsky’s Interests:

Pinball Repair and Antique Slot Machine Repair – Self taught repair of electro-mechanical pinballs, solid state pinballs (including circuit board repair), and mechanical slot machine repair. Documented repairs for future use (http://www.pvillepinball.com/myrepairs.asp). At the customer location, spent time training the customer to do their own basic repairs and maintenance to ensure the longevity of the pinball industry. Collecting – Collector of Hallmark Ornaments, View Master Stereo Cards and Antique Stereo Cards. Invented and developed a software application to inventory collections electronically. First software application to implement a price guide (with photographs) in electronic form. Provided telephone technical support and program updates during the life of the software. Artificial Intelligence (Expert System systems/rule-based systems).