# @trinityu on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-05-14T14:59:42.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Trinity University (@trinityu) — https://gondola.cc/trinityu

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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 for California’s changing energy market.

Outside the classroom, he interned with Dell Technologies before landing what he calls his “dream spot” at McKinsey & Company. There, he quickly realized how much Trinity had prepared him for the pace and pressure of consulting work.

“A lot of what I learned in (finance professor) Maxey’s classes, I was able to use on the very first day at McKinsey,” he says. “That’s huge, especially when you're at a firm that's as intimidating as McKinsey where everyone has a Harvard MBA.”

After graduation, José will return to McKinsey as a business analyst, with long-term goals that extend beyond consulting.

“I feel an obligation to take my skills, take my experience, and to contribute in a way that is meaningful to the economy,” he says. “I want to mentor the next generation of CEOs from Venezuela.”

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