For José Manuel Salazar Bogado ’26, solving problems under pressure is exactly what drew him toward management consulting. A business analytics and technology major in Trinity’s Neidorff School of Business, José came to Trinity after an international upbringing that took him from Venezuela to Beijing, Malaysia, and Mexico City. Originally planning to study marketing, he found a different path through analytics and data science. “I never considered myself to be a very numbers-oriented person. But what I like about analytics, is that it’s almost like a puzzle,” he says. “Just putting the pieces together and trying to figure out what the numbers say, piece by piece, building up until you get the big picture.” At Trinity, those skills came to life through hands-on learning opportunities. In one data science course, José worked with a student team and energy company Sunoco to build an AI machine learning model that predicted gasoline demand in the United States and explored solutions fo...