Mike Levitan

Biography: Mike Levitan, CPA Independent Consultant Dallas, TX Mike is a certified public account and a n independent contractor focusing on the budgets and financial plans for transit agencies. Mike was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1965. The family moved to Dallas Texas when Mike was 11, in pursuit of a better economy for the family bookstore and he’s been in Texas ever since., Mike was hired by the fledgling transit agency Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART. Over the next 13 years, his experiences include: contract audit and contract negotiations (resulting in tens of millions of dollars of contract savings), business process re-engineering, labor negotiations and internal management consulting before moving to the Budget Department in 2002. At DART, far more important than the annual budget is the 20-Year Financial Plan. Mike directed the budget group and advanced the Financial Plan through multiple recessions and other assorted crises (both economic and political), and the quadrupling of DART’s Light Rail system, all the while maintaining DART’s financial integrity, credibility and transparency. In 2013, Mike retired from a 26-year career at DART at the ripe old age of 48 to pursue the twin interests of a start-up fantasy baseball company and actively managing his investment portfolio, with a side order of consulting work. He earned a BBA in Accounting from Texas Tech in 1986. May 2014