Consulting

I’m the only expert on Quality-Driven Data & AI in the world who has nearly 30 years of deep expertise as a software engineer, data scientist, and executive leader – installing quality management systems and transforming Data & AI organizations to optimize the whitespace between people, process, and technology. In 2020, I published Connected, Intelligent, Automated – the first publication to reveal the secret to winning data, AI and digital transformation initiatives.

During this time, I’ve helped senior leaders and execs build data-driven processes to exchange chaos for clarity, execute successful Data & AI strategies, explore opportunities, and drive 10-100x performance improvements.

I’m open to contracts or retainers starting JULY 2025, and (potentially) full-time roles starting OCTOBER 2025. For larger projects, I have ready access to a large team of engineers and analysts. DM me on LinkedIn or email to nicole@qzuku.com.

If your organization needs to unlock insights from source systems, set up an AI Strategy, set up AI Governance/Data Strategy, find high ROI opportunities with AI, or help your MS/PhD workers perform more effectively, contact me at nicole@qzuku.com with subject CONSULTING INQUIRY. I am a broker for data/AI products and professional services providers, and have access to 100+ highly skilled data & AI professionals that I have personally vetted and/or trained over the past two decades.

Previous consulting projects include:

Helping entrepreneurs quickly translate their ideas to actionable specs for AI multi-agent systems that engineers can actually develop quickly and efficiently
Building a Data & AI strategy for an A-round pitch
Using AI & machine learning to determine market segmentation, Ideal Customer Profiles, Voice of the Customer (VOC), profitable product combos, how/whether macroeconomic conditions are impacting sales patterns, etc.
Organized strategic plan development and operations plan alignment to strategy for $10M-500M programs
Wrote an application in R/Python/Shiny to explore Industrial Hygiene exposure assessments (as a means to validate data collection approach in an enterprise software system) – https://radziwill.shinyapps.io/IHSTATR/
Helped multiple operations teams in a $100M organization develop a layered KPI/metrics scheme (KPI tree) with clear lines of responsibility, regular reporting, and consensus development
Helped guide strategic $1-10M IT investments (high-level enterprise architecture, multi-criteria decision making, machine learning)
Improved alignment by helping organizations restructure processes, roles, and reporting relationships
Built new competencies by creating and delivering custom courses for professionals on quality management and quality engineering topics, e.g. Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Failure Mode Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMEA/FMECA)
Built new competencies by creating and delivering custom data science courses (using RStudio) for business and disciplinary experts, including demos and tools like https://radziwill.shinyapps.io/sdm-clt/
Supported ideation, development, and refinement of NSF, NSF SBIR/STTR, DOD, and DOE grant proposals
Writing and/or ghostwriting custom research/marketing pieces on management, technology management, emerging technologies (e.g. blockchain), and Environment, Health & Safety, and Quality (EHSQ)