After seven years of public accounting and structured finance at Arthur Andersen and Coopers & Lybrand, Jeff headed up the structuring and analytics group at ContiFinancial Corporation, a specialty finance company and issuer of mortgage (residential and commercial) and asset-backed securities. The first ten years of his professional career was heavily geared towards mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities structuring, model-building, and fixed income analysis along with database management and design, financial statement preparation and business plan forecasting.