Michael N.

Michael Neal

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Ex-Deloitte | Break Into Data, Analytics & AI Roles

5,630 min coached

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Studied at Chicago Booth

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Worked at Centerview Partners

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Michael's Coaching Offerings

Custom hourly · $150/hr

Get help with AI Fundamentals, Predictive Analytics, and .

Michael also coaches for Investment Banking, AI for Product Development, and AI Automation & Agents. View all.

Michael’s AI for Data & Analytics Qualifications

Experience level: Executive

Michael has helped clients get into these companies:

I’ve built data pipelines, ETL jobs, and analytics tooling across both enterprise and startup environments. At Deloitte, I worked on cloud strategy and data infrastructure projects, and I’ve also helped startups and small businesses stand up ETL workflows, automate reporting, and build custom tools to make their data usable. My technical work spans clustering, NLP, LLM API-driven analysis, cloud architecture, and data storage systems, with additional training in discrete math and algorithms. I also bring a broader strategic lens than most technical coaches. I’ve worked with Palantir as a client and have done extensive analysis across the data infrastructure landscape, including companies like Snowflake and Datadog and transactions involving businesses like Scale AI. That lets me help clients at both levels: the granular technical detail of how data and AI systems actually work, and the higher-level strategic understanding of why these systems matter and how to communicate that value. Whether you’re trying to break into data and AI, sharpen your technical foundation, or better position your experience, I can help.

Michael can help with:

AI Fundamentals

Predictive Analytics

Data Cleaning & Prep

Data Strategy

Data Pipeline Automation

Dashboard Creation

Natural Language Querying

AI Model Evaluation

Data Visualization

AI Automation

Freelancing

Reporting & Insights

Michael also coaches for Investment Banking, AI for Product Development, and AI Automation & Agents. View all.

About Michael

I walked out of my Centerview superday knowing I had the offer — not because I was the smartest candidate, but because I had figured out what actually mattered in the room. That became the foundation for everything I've built since. I led UChicago's Investment Banking Group as Technical Lead and helped dozens of candidates land offers before founding OFFERGOBLIN, the adaptive prep platform with 5,000+ verified interview questions from every major bank. I wrote the industry's open-access textbook on IB technicals. My full-time job — my only job — is figuring out what gets people offers and building systems around it.

Why do I coach?

Most coaches fit sessions in between deal work or their day job. This is all I do. No busy season. No distractions. I've seen every failure mode, I know exactly where the bar is, and my only focus is getting you over it.

Work Experience

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Summer Associate

Centerview Partners

June 2025 - August 2025

Technology Group

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Consultant

Deloitte

November 2020 - September 2024

Cloud Strategy / Tech coverage

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Head Teaching Assistant

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

August 2018 - August 2020

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Operations engineer

KATERRA

May 2019 - August 2019

Education

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Chicago Booth

MBA & MS CS

2024 - 2026

Activities and societies: Investment Banking Group — Technical Lead; Quantum @ Booth — Founder

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

BS + MS, Civil Engineering

2016 - 2020

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