About

Elena Artemova

Project manager and business analyst helping teams implement AI solutions inside real business processes.

Elena Artemova during a business process analysis session
Elena Artemova

Value for business

Experience across analysis, delivery, and AI adoption

  • From requirements to AI solutions

    I help define business problems in a way that can be assessed, built, and adopted.

  • Implementation management

    I connect pre-sale, discovery, analysis, development, testing, and user onboarding.

  • AI adoption roadmap

    I shape AI rollout plans around workflows, risks, data, and team readiness.

Professional path

CV-derived roles and projects

  1. 2024 – present AI Solutions Developer Project work

Head of Business Analysis Group — Nikta.AI

  • Conducting business analysis: analysis and modeling of business processes.
  • Participation in pre-sale, analysis of customer business processes.
  • Proposals for potential business process changes to enable more effective AI solution integration.
  • Coordination of AI solution development with the customer division and the development team.
  • Business analyst team leadership.
  • Mentoring at the Central University — Test&Learn
  1. 04.2025 – 05.2025 Head of Business Analysis Group Nikta.AI

Business Analyst (Project Manager)

  • Defining functional requirements and preparing technical specifications for automation.
  • Analysis and modeling of business processes.
  • Developing action plans and managing projects to optimize business processes.
  1. 01/2025 – 03/2025 Project Manager / Business Analyst Consulting — Berner&Stafford · Moscow
  2. 08/2024 – 11/2024 Business Analyst NTI Foundation · Moscow
  3. 02/2024 – 07/2024 Business Analyst DBR LLC · Krasnoznamensk, Moscow Region
  4. 09/2023 – 12/2023 Business Analyst (consulting) PM-Assistant LLC · Moscow

Project Manager (own business)

  • Development of a comprehensive business strategy and product management.
  • Creating digital assets and developing media content using digital clothing and a virtual showroom.
  • Introducing digital technologies into apparel design and production.
  • Apparel production.
  • Developing marketing strategy and promotion.
  1. 09/2020 – 07/2024 Project Manager andLLyou — digital and real linen clothing · Obninsk

2013–2022 Major Sporting Events

  • Development of technical specifications for construction of temporary broadcast infrastructure for international transmissions.
  • Coordination of layout designs.
  • Coordination of installation works on external and internal territory.
  • On-site acceptance of works.
  • Team leadership.
  1. 07/2020 – 05/2022 Director of Broadcast Infrastructure Department ANO Executive Directorate Universiade
  2. 06/2019 – 07/2019 Broadcast Facility Manager Directorate of the 2nd European Games 2019 · Belarus — Minsk
  3. 08/2017 – 07/2018 Senior Specialist — Broadcast Infrastructure ANO Organizing Committee RUSSIA 2018 · Russia — Moscow
  4. 06/2017 – 07/2017 TV Compound Assistant NBC Universal — Telemundo Gorky Park Studio FCC2017 · Moscow
  5. 07/2016 – 08/2016 Deputy Head of Olympic Facility (TV) Olympic Broadcast Services Rio — 2016 · Brazil — Rio de Janeiro
  6. 04/2013 – 03/2014 Project Manager — Broadcast Infrastructure ANO Organizing Committee SOCHI 2014 · Russia — Sochi

Consultant (Construction Readiness)

  • Expert assessment of construction for the FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
  • Analysis of construction documentation and design schedules.
  • Risk and change management control.
  • Operational and labor efficiency assessment.
  • Proposals for developing and implementing document management. Preparation of progress reports and dashboards.
  1. 12/2018 – 07/2020 Consultant (Construction Readiness) Consortium Energoresurs LLC

2010–2017 Operational Efficiency and Lean Manufacturing

  • Implementation of Lean Manufacturing principles in automotive and heavy machinery enterprises.
  • Leading operational efficiency analysis and cost reduction initiatives from 5–10% per part up to 30% for the entire value stream.
  • Conducting audits for production system implementation at heavy machinery plants.
  • Developing internal training strategy and materials, delivering trainings on core Lean principles: VSM, 5S, TPM, SMED, CIP, PDCA, A3, Pull-Push strategy, Toyota Way methodology, Six Sigma approach.
  • Developed and implemented operational procedures, technology documents, and quality standards resulting in a 15% productivity increase.
  • Coordinated and trained teams of 10–15 people on operational improvement projects.
  • Preparation of reports and presentations.
  • VSM, 5S, TPM, SMED, CIP, PDCA, A3
  • Pull-Push, Toyota Way, Six Sigma
  • 15% productivity increase
  • Coordination of teams of 10–15 people
  1. 01/2017 – 03/2017 Project Manager — Consultant Operational Efficiency & Lean Manufacturing · Moscow
  2. 11/2014 – 09/2016 Senior Production System Implementation Specialist Transmashholding · Moscow
  3. 07/2012 – 11/2012 Consultant — Lean Manufacturing proLean Consulting · Kaluga
  4. 04/2012 – 06/2012 Senior Consultant — Operational Efficiency Ernst&Young · Moscow
  5. 11/2010 – 12/2011 Coordinator for Production and Business Process Optimization Magna Technoplast · Kaluga

Dealer Network Development Specialist

  • Coordinating layouts of Toyota & Lexus dealerships (drawings, 3D models).
  • Coordination and control of dealer facility construction (timelines, cost estimation, final acceptance).
  • Launched 12 Toyota dealerships, 6 temporary Toyota facilities
  • 2 Lexus dealerships, 3 temporary Lexus facilities
  • Controlled over 60 existing and temporary Toyota and Lexus facilities
  1. 08/2007 – 08/2010 Dealer Network Development Specialist Toyota Motor LLC · Moscow

Expertise

AI, analysis, and implementation management

  • AI & Data

    NLP, LLM, RAG, LangChain, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL.

  • Analysis and delivery

    BPMN, Miro, Jira, Confluence, Kanban, Waterfall, Lean, Six Sigma, SMART.

  • Local tooling

    Ollama, local models, API integrations, Docker, and working environments for data processing.

Education

Engineering, economics, and AI foundation

Mechanical Engineer

Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba

Engineering faculty, equipment technology and automation of machine-building production.

  1. Introduction to local LLMs. Launching your first local model
  2. Local embedding models and vector databases
  3. RAG: from ingestion to answer
  4. Selecting graphics cards for running models
  5. Quantization and hardware profiles
  6. Creating a chatbot with a local LLM
  7. Fine-tuning a domain model for your tasks
  8. Multimodal local models
  9. Quality evaluation and leaderboard
  10. Deploying an AI employee to a server. Creating an API
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Economics and Enterprise Management

Lomonosov Moscow State University

Faculty of Economics.

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Professional development

University of Artificial Intelligence, PMI, RUDN University, HTML Academy

Databases and neural networks, PMBOK, technical translation, HTML and CSS.

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Additional Training

Additional Certificates

Project management per PMI PMBOK® Guide 5th Edition

PM Expert · Project Management Institute

Foundation Course · 24 PDUs · July 28–30, 2014

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Professional HTML & CSS, level 2

HTML Academy

March 28 – May 29, 2019

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