Nicholas Olmsted

About Nicholas Olmsted

I build design systems and internal platforms for complex, technical organizations, working end-to-end from UX definition through deployment.My work focuses on translating complex infrastructure, operational data, and systems into clear, scalable experiences that teams and leadership can actually use. I specialize in system-level thinking—designing not just interfaces, but the workflows, tooling, and patterns that allow work to scale.I regularly use AI-augmented development workflows to collapse design-to-production handoffs, leveraging LLM-assisted tools within real infrastructure and deployment constraints to ship internal tools independently.I’m most effective in environments that value clear ownership, strong cross-disciplinary collaboration, and pragmatic use of emerging technology to improve clarity, velocity, and quality at scale.

Experience

1. Staff Designer Infrastructure Systems & Internal Platforms

   NVIDIA

   Jul 2024 — Present

   Infrastructure Monitoring & Systems PlatformLed system-level design of a real-time infrastructure monitoring platform unifying disparate operational data sources across global environments. Defined end-to-end interaction models, information architecture, and lifecycle workflows spanning commissioning, operations, maintenance, and planned downtime in close collaboration with engineering. Platform expanded from initial team use to broader organizational adoption, supporting global infrastructure visibility and operational decision-making.Infrastructure Visualization & Executive Systems ModelingDeveloped executive-facing visual models of advanced computing and large-scale infrastructure environments, synthesizing inputs across mechanical, electrical, thermal, and compute domains. Designed digital narratives and system visualizations to communicate complex infrastructure dependencies with clarity and coherence. Established a scalable visual system to standardize how infrastructure initiatives and technical roadmaps were communicated across products, presentations, newsletters, and reporting.Internal Platforms & AI-Augmented Product DevelopmentBuilt authenticated internal platforms to operationalize infrastructure communication and reporting workflows. Worked end-to-end from UX definition through prototyping, deployment, and ongoing maintenance within secure infrastructure pipelines. Leveraged AI-augmented development workflows to accelerate design-to-production cycles, reduce dependency on engineering bandwidth, and ship production-ready internal tools independently.

Skills

• Art Direction
• Posters
• Html Emails
• Concept Development
• Marketing
• Brand Development
• Brochures
• Graphic Design
• Corporate Identity
• Html
• Illustration
• Graphics