Zachary Piell

Zachary Piell

Consultant · Musician · Photographer

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About Me

I've always lived at the intersection of structure and creativity. By day, I'm a Chicago-based technology consultant, currently completing my One-Year MBA at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management.

Off the clock, that same energy shifts to sound and visual art. I've played piano and guitar for over a decade, producing and releasing 20+ tracks along the way. Behind the lens, I focus on drone photography, chasing clean geometry, aerial perspectives, and dramatic landscapes.

Whether I'm architecting a system, building a melody, or framing a shot from four hundred feet up, the drive is identical: creating something compelling from the ground up.

Journey

Northwestern Kellogg School of Management

MBA Candidate

Jun 2026 - Jun 2027

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University · Evanston, IL

One-Year MBA Program

Leadership

  • President of Kellogg Cares Day, the largest philanthropy event run at the school annually.

Coursework

  • Introduction to Financial Accounting
  • Leadership in Organizations
  • Business Strategy
  • Finance I
  • Organizational Growth & Transformation
Deloitte

Analyst --> Consultant

Sep 2021 - Jun 2026

Deloitte · Chicago, IL

Design Lead & SME, Agentforce Implementation

  • Helped pioneer one of Deloitte's earliest Agentforce implementations, designing conversational AI assistants and helping establish a repeatable firm capability.
  • Designed and deployed AI agents that made it faster for sales teams to create opportunities and manage relationships.
  • Drove adoption by demoing the solution to senior leaders across the firm and securing buy-in for future expansion.

Sales Management Design Lead, Deloitte CRM ("Jupiter")

  • Selected as Sales Management Design Lead (acting Manager) on Deloitte's global CRM implementation, mentoring teammates and owning sales and pipeline tracking design end to end.
  • Led key capability rollouts and UX redesigns that improved how sales teams track pipeline, relationships, and credit.
  • Ran a monthly design council of senior leaders across geographies to align strategy and shape major platform enhancements.

Firm Initiatives

  • Led communications and financial reporting for Deloitte's U.S. Salesforce Alliance, surfacing insights that helped drive alliance sales.
  • Organized large-scale city events for Chicago Deloitte consultants, managing a team and budget to strengthen connections across levels.
University of Michigan

University of Michigan

Sep 2017 - May 2021

B.S.E. Computer Science · Minor in Music · Magna Cum Laude

Four years of debugging code by day, producing music at night, and making lifelong friends. Sprinkle in a couple of summer internships and a global pandemic, and you've got my college experience in a nutshell.

Internships

Nike
Global Technology Intern
Nike · Summer 2020

Product development team on FlexPLM; built dashboards with Splunk, New Relic, and Dynatrace, and designed a Nike Membership prototype for the Nike Combine project.

Cboe
Information Solutions Intern
Cboe Global Markets · Summer 2019

Supported LiveVol analytics; repaired earnings data with MySQL, assessed API data in Python, and evaluated AI vendor partnerships.

CME Group
Business Analyst Intern
CME Group · Summer 2018

Worked on the Alfabet platform to organize applications and data flows; maintained SQL databases and applied HTML/CSS.

Skills

Tools I use across consulting, music, and visual work

Salesforce Salesforce Ableton Live Ableton Live Final Cut Pro Final Cut Pro SQL SQL Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop Microsoft Suite Microsoft Suite Python Python Commercial Drone License Commercial Drone License Prompt Engineering Prompt Engineering

Music

Since college, music production has been one of my favorite hobbies. I particularly enjoy making future bass-style electronic music. Here are some of my favorite tracks I've released.

Wait x 3 - Open on SoundCloud
So High (ZELIAC Remix) - Open on SoundCloud
keep it on the low low - Open on SoundCloud
Eden - Open on SoundCloud

Let's make some music! Use your keys to play some chords and be sure to toggle between instruments and add a backing drum track for maximum vibes.

Now here's some of the music I'm listening to...

Visuals

Florence skyline with the Duomo framed by trees Sunlit fever tree grove El Capitan in Yosemite National Park Rialto Bridge over the Grand Canal in Venice Iguazu Falls cascading into mist Florence Cathedral dome against a blue sky Volcano erupting at night under a starry sky Monkey on a balcony overlooking waterfalls Brazilian flag with Sugarloaf Mountain beyond Hikers ascending a ridge above the clouds Sunset over Rio with Christ the Redeemer Classical statues with a volcano in the background Lion cub resting in a tree Two giraffes against green foliage and blue sky Two elephants walking along a dirt path Leopard looking through tall grass Whale fluke rising from the ocean Red rock canyon walls framed by evergreen trees Turquoise cove seen from a rocky cliff Looking up through a redwood forest canopy Rocky stream through an evergreen forest Long-tail boats at Ao Nang beach, Krabi Orange hoodoos at Bryce Canyon Rainbow over a city street after rain Westerkerk tower in Amsterdam Aerial view of clouds at sunset Gnarled tree trunk overlooking a lake Disco ball lighting a crowded venue Wax palms in a misty mountain valley Building covered in tropical greenery Sunbeams through clouds from above Coastal town at the base of a mountain King Protea flower against a blue sky White Temple and its reflection in Chiang Rai Blue guardian statue in Chiang Rai Iceland waterfall Pinnacle Peak, Scottsdale, AZ Sunset in Northbrook, IL Angels Landing, Zion View from below Angels Landing Cabo San Lucas Gallup Park, Ann Arbor Puget Sound sunset Flowers in San Juan Mississippi River sunset Black sand dunes, Iceland Puffin, Iceland Chihuly Museum, Seattle Chihuly glass near the Space Needle Telluride, CO San Juan, Puerto Rico Sunset on the roof Marblehead, MA Rocky shore near Boston Sawtooth Mountains, Idaho Alpine lake in Idaho Mountain stream in Idaho Treeline in Idaho Ann Arbor Arboretum University of Michigan Arboretum Sky through arboretum trees White tree in the arboretum Ann Arbor arts scene Melbourne, Australia Chicago skyline from above Zion National Park Motel stay near Zion San Diego Chicago Botanical Gardens Neon light installation Ann Arbor sunset Golden hour, Colorado Apostle Islands shoreline Desert butte landscape Sunlit butte formations Canadian landscape Candlestick garden Chandelier detail Cliffside overlook Crested Butte landscape Croatia coastline Campfire at night Street art wall Harrisville sunset Hotel exterior Iceland ice landscape Iceberg in Iceland Rock formation in Iceland Jumping photo National Mall, Washington DC Restaurant terrace Octopus Sydney Opera House Ranch landscape Sailboat on the water Sasha the dog Sasha sleeping Skiing Open sky Snail on a leaf Soldier Field Forest trees Basalt waterfall