Hi, my name is
Nikolai Nosov
From the shop floor to the cloud — 15 years making complex data systems work for the people who depend on them.
A continuous learner looking to join a modern and strategically focused analytics team that learns together in a joint mission to turn data into a competitive advantage. 15+ years of proven ability to lead projects and teams, while engaging hands-on with technical challenges. Ability to resolve ambiguous problems aided by a top-tier MBA and a diverse set of experiences.
Experience
Lead cloud data platform teams powering vehicle connectivity solutions for North American customers.
- Maintain 24/7 uptime of enterprise-grade data platforms supporting a fleet management portal, remote diagnostics, over-the-air updates, and DaaS products.
- Own the team backlog — defining initiatives, setting objectives, and leading Agile ceremonies to keep delivery aligned with strategy.
- Drive platform architecture decisions, evaluating emerging cloud technologies and shaping data infrastructure strategy.
- Manage a multi-million-dollar budget across infrastructure, licensing, and labor.
Developed connected vehicle analytics products across a 300K+ truck fleet.
- Led multiple data products end-to-end — from telematics ingestion and enrichment through analysis and stakeholder-ready delivery.
- Gathered analytics requirements directly from business stakeholders, bridging the gap between operational needs and technical delivery.
- Developed geospatial analytics using connected vehicle data to target Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) infrastructure investments across North America.
Managed retention analytics for a global subscription-based research and advisory platform.
- Mentored an offshore development team, serving as the critical link between technical delivery and executive expectations.
- Built rapid credibility across Global Services, IT, and the Chief Data Office — enabling aligned stakeholder engagement.
Implemented business intelligence solutions, on-site, for one of the world's largest aerospace and defense suppliers.
- Designed an app-like Tableau dashboard to visually analyze production and quality metrics, directly resulting in an increased scope of analytics work and contract extension for the firm.
- Developed Python scripts to expedite data wrangling and accumulate data snapshots for baseline KPIs.
- Delivered on analytics requirements of a 13-person project team by procuring data, uncovering insights, recommending process improvements, and developing sustainability plans.
Led client engagements - consisting of custom and pre-built analytics solutions - while helping expand the practice by interviewing and recommending candidates.
- Automotive: Designed data strategy for a Vehicle Specification Management System, documented progress in JIRA and reported out to client stakeholders.
- Automotive: Liaison with client's senior leaders to define requirements for a vehicle specifications analytics web application.
- Financial Services: Collaborating with client's executives and strategy teams, supported front-line business operatives in adoption of a pricing recommendation application developed by the firm.
Scoped complex analytics projects, developed execution plans, and executed analysis.
- Partnered with IT to provision Microsoft SQL Server and Power BI Service to deliver analytics content to 2000+ users.
- Led informal data communities across the enterprise to enable knowledge sharing, while forming strategic partnerships, to develop long-term frameworks, tools, and standards.
- Shaped the back-end data model development process to meet business requirements, dialing in organizational focus on enabling efficient, single-source analytics.
Responsible for developing a team of functional leaders and individual contributors supporting sales and service operations across 8 states with 1200+ employees, 21 branches, and 500+ dealerships.
- Founded an analytics team by structuring, recruiting, and mentoring a team of data analysts responsible for gathering business requirements and delivering dashboards/ad-hoc reports.
- As a subject-matter expert of relational databases containing company data, participated in teams spearheading Six Sigma/Lean, business case development, and operational improvement projects.
- Designed and implemented a labor overtime analytics initiative that enabled $2M+ in annual savings.
Education
- McCombs School of Business