Featured Pro: Rocky Dotson
Job title: Mortgage Underwriter / Underwriter Manager
Company name: First City Mortgage
Years in the profession: 10 years
Approximate size of company: 150 – 200 employees
Number of people in his office: 6
Personal Career Objective: To be the owner of a mortgage company.
Rocky Dotson got started in the industry as a Loan Officer. He aggressively sought out to learn as much as he could about the mortgage industry, much of it through on the job training. Then he became a Jr. Processor and began taking a series of classes.
According to Rocky, the traits and abilities you need to excel as an Mortgage Underwriter are:
- Ability to pay attention to details
- Having excellent organizational skills
- Ability to remember complex guidelines
- Having good solid working experience or extremely knowledgeable about the mortgage industry
- Possessing a strong background in finance
- Maintaining a certain level of integrity (due to the high level of fraud that can occur)
- Being flexible; doing it right the first time.
Rocky's final words: "What I like most about my job is the high level of flexibility. Basically, you are your own boss."