Nikolai Nosov

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 version-controlled (GitHub) projects using Snowflake, Microsoft Azure Data Explorer, Data Factory, and Databricks.

• Technical lead on projects extracting telematics data from 300K+ Class 8 trucks and developing geospatial analytics tailored to external and internal stakeholder needs.
• Utilized Azure DevOps and Agile principles to break down project requirements into 2-week sprints, size work efforts, document progress, and iteratively deliver on requirements while managing business expectations.
• Key contributor on a project team leading evaluation and implementation of new data platforms, architectures, and services.

Led an offshore development team responsible for an internally facing Microsoft Power BI dashboard that tracked KPIs such as Customer Retention Rate (CRR), Churn Rate, and Lifetime Value (LTV).

• Addressed communication gap between US-based executives and offshore development teams.
• Established relationships with stakeholders from the Global Services and Delivery organization as well as other functional areas, such as IT, Chief Data Office, and Learning & Development.

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.