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.

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.

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