Hello and welcome.

I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members

to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general. Let's get to it.

In this episode, member BME Nerd shares his story about striking out the first time during

case interviews at McKinsey to landing the offer the second time around. Find out what changed

that made the difference,

the challenges pivoting from academia to management consulting, as well as advice he'd give to his

younger self. Enjoy.

BME nerd. Thank you so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Hey, thanks a lot, Patrick.

Yeah, so no problem.

It'd be great if you could give the listeners a quick summary of your background.

Sure.

So I'm now director of Operation Strategy at a mid-sized medical device company called DJO Global.

When I joined, we were owned by Blackstone.

And in the year and a half that I've been here, we were able to transact a company to a new

conglomerate public trade appearing company.

It's been great.

Before that, I spent a year and a half as an associate at McKinsey in the Houston office.

And so a little bit about my path, just getting to that point.

I did my undergrad in physics at Cornell.

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