Brian Schell Email & Phone Number

Detroit, Mi, Us

Helping a great team to grow the Rocket Loans business.

Bloomfield, New Jersey, Us

• Key contributor to all major capital market functions within RMIT.• Create and present monthly MSR valuation materials to RMIT’s executive team.• Responsible for the development and maintenance of proprietary cash flow model used for valuation and budget forecasting.• Manage the team that creates and issues monthly Ginnie Mae HMBS tail pools.• Perform competitor surveillance including pool issuance volume and pricing.• Manage REPO financing lines with multiple counterparties.• Value all outstanding buyout securitizations issued by RMIT (“RBIT bonds”) and proprietary reverse securitizations issued by RMIT (“RPIT bonds”) via Intex.• Point person for third-parties including independent valuation services and auditors.• Conceptualized and lead a nine-month project to design, build and implement a custom web-based software application.

Jersey City, Nj, Us

• Engaged potential customers and performed product demonstrations.• Negotiated and closed contracts with new clients.• Utilized customer feedback to advise software enhancements.

• Launched a construction management company for full-scale home construction.• Collaborated with a national mortgage bank to bring a new single-close construction loan product to market, tailored to our customers’ needs; acquisition, construction, permanent.

• A consulting company specializing in custom web applications. • Helped grow the business from approximately $200k to $1 million in annual revenue by analyzing business line profitability and securing new development contracts within the telecom industry.• Implemented efficient revenue and cost monitoring techniques using APIs to collect and display performance data.• Managed social media marketing campaigns for client and proprietary products and improved conversion rates through A/B testing.• Designed user experience and data flow for web applications based in Ruby on Rails.

Holmdel, New Jersey, Us

Transaction Manager for ZAIS Financial Corp (NYSE: ZFC)• Built and launched a jumbo, non-QM mortgage conduit to acquire newly originated residential mortgages.• Researched competitiveness of product and coordinated program changes internally and externally.• Boarded and trained new wholesale originators.Portfolio Manager for Whole Loan Trading • Purchased and securitized $1.5 billion UPB of seasoned residential mortgages.• Valued RMBS and whole-loan pools using proprietary cashflow models.• Managed warehouse and repurchase (“REPO”) financing facilities.

New York, Ny, Us

• A global macro hedge fund invested in numerous product types across multiple strategies.• Primary price source for all trading securities and strategic investments held in funds advised by Caxton for tax and financial reporting purposes, as defined by FAS 157 (now Topic 820).• Developed quantitative pricing models for exotic products using option pricing theory, interest rate and credit models such as Black-Scholes and binomial trees.• Calculated quarterly values and assisted with drafting financial opinions for strategic investments using DCF method, enterprise value multiple & contingent claim analysis.• Oversight of investor publications including NAV, return matrixes, leverage and risk reporting.• Built and maintained an access database for reference data initially used for report automation and risk management, ultimately used for Caxton’s instrument data-mart.

New York, Ny, Us

• Specifically, the equity derivative and convertible bond groups within the investment bank.• Managed a team of five junior and mid-level analysts.• Implemented operational techniques which streamlined processes and enhanced controls in dynamic businesses.• Collaborated with internal groups to reduce cost structure of multiple products.• Successfully on-boarded a live trading book following the acquisition of Bank One.• Partnered with internal groups to insure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley regulations

• A global macro hedge fund invested in numerous product types across multiple strategies.• Monitored activities of the global foreign exchange trading desk.• Performed trade system input, position verification and price sourcing.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Economics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Finance, General