Michael Amaloo is a Senior Client Relations Manager for EDFUND. His role is to be the main point of contact for schools within the Rocky Mountain region – excluding Kansas. That is the official title and brief job description given to him by his place of employment. For those of us in RMASFAA who have worked with Michael, we might just crown him with a title of “Jack of All Trades,” “The Point-Guard,” or possibly “The Go-To-Man.”

Michael has 27 years of experience working in the student loan industry. He has experience at the banking level, the college financial aid office level, and also at the guarantee agency level. Michael has worked for EDFUND for the last 5 years of his long and varied career.

I asked Michael what it was that he liked about his job and he replied, “I love to visit with the financial aid folks at the schools. I enjoy helping them to resolve issues – it pleases me when I can offer a solution to whatever is going on. I want to be looked upon as a resource. I love just being involved in RMASFAA and being around its members.” Involved is putting it lightly when looking at Michael’s agenda. He is very involved in associations at the state and regional level. With such a full work agenda, it is hard to think that he has any free time at all. “Doing financial aid for almost 27 years from the school to lender to guarantor side, I have to say that it never becomes routine – never boring or old. I love the dynamics of the occupation. I am constantly learning something new.” Both learning and teaching has been a cornerstone of his career. Last year, Michael was the Associate Track Dean with RMASFAA’s Summer Institute and a member of the RMASFAA Conference team in Colorado and will be the incoming chair of the Association News Committee for 2009.

Michael and his wife of two years, Cyndy, are happily living in Parker, Colorado. He has two sons, Jason and Collin. Jason and his wife Kathryn welcomed a daughter (Jaina) into their home a year ago and live in Augusta. GA. Collin, like many 21-year-olds, is on a “path of discovery” and enjoying life in Victoria, TX. Michael’s hobbies include a new passion for poker (watch out World Poker Tour...) golf, and travel. He and his wife Cyndy spent three weeks in Norway last year and have plans to do a 3-4 week tour of Southeast Asia next year.