VIKASH SHARMAPRODUCT MANAGEMENT

DUBAI, UAE · GCC & MEA

From product
definition to
deployment.

Consumer electronics · Telecom · Connected devices

I’m Vikash Kumar Sharma. I bring engineering depth and regional product experience to the products people use at home—across television, broadband and the connected-device ecosystem.

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12+ years across product, delivery and engineering

Vikash Kumar Sharma at a professional event beside the Premier League trophy
Vikash Kumar SharmaRegional product management & technical pre-sales
5M+

Devices deployed
Middle East · four years

12+

Regional clients
Operator & telco programmes

20–30+

Cross-functional team members
Product, R&D, QA & deployment

5+

Concurrent programmes
Regional operator delivery

SELECTED WORK / 01

Three sides of
product ownership.

Operator integration, commercial portfolio development and connected-home compatibility.

01OPERATOR DEVICES

OSN Android set-top box

A first-time integration of Synamedia conditional access with an Amlogic chipset, using Google CBS.

Android TVAmlogicConditional accessGoogle CBS

DELIVERY RESULT

6 months

Against a 18-month company benchmark

Company benchmark18 months
Delivered6 months

One-third of the benchmark delivery time.

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The challenge

Bring a new conditional-access and chipset combination into an Android set-top box programme within a substantially shorter delivery window.

Product contribution

Product requirements, technical pre-sales and coordination across the device, platform and integration ecosystem, supported by end-to-end operator programme experience.

The outcome

Completed in six months compared with the company’s 1.5-year benchmark for this integration.

02CONSUMER ELECTRONICS

A new retail category for the UAE

Developed the business case and market-entry planning for a new consumer-electronics product range.

Business caseFeasibilityGo-to-market
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Commercial ownership

Assessed feasibility, developed business cases and defined the go-to-market approach for introducing a new category to the UAE market.

Market readiness

Analysed certification requirements alongside the commercial plan to connect portfolio decisions with practical market-entry needs.

Scope

Retail product-range development and new-category introduction.

03CONNECTED HOME

IoT hub & device compatibility

Product planning for an IoT hub, with Matter, Thread and compatibility across different connected devices.

MatterThreadInteroperability
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Product focus

Define the hub’s role in the connected home and consider how devices from different ecosystems work together.

Compatibility planning

Evaluate Matter support and Thread connectivity alongside device-specific requirements. Matter application interoperability and Thread networking are distinct parts of the compatibility assessment.

Scope

Hub requirements and cross-device compatibility planning.

HOW I WORK / 02

Across the
whole lifecycle.

I connect customer needs with product decisions, engineering execution and market readiness.

01

Define the opportunity

Customer requirements, RFPs, technical pre-sales, feasibility and business cases.

02

Shape the product

Product strategy, PRDs, roadmaps, competitive positioning and hardware/software requirements.

03

Coordinate delivery

OEM/ODM development, partner alignment, cross-functional teams and operator integration.

04

Prepare for market

Certification, go-to-market, field rollout and post-launch support.

EXPERIENCE / 03

Engineering foundations.
Product leadership.

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MAY 2022 – AUG 2026Dubai, UAE

Skyworth Digital

Regional Product Manager & Technical Pre-sales

Owned connected-device lifecycles from product definition through OEM/ODM development, certification and operator rollout. Led regional programmes across IPTV/OTT, broadband, smart home and AI-enabled devices.

Operator engagements: STC · Ooredoo · OSN · MBC · TOD · Digiturk · ZAP

SEP 2021 – MAR 2022Johannesburg, South Africa

MultiChoice Group

Project Manager

Delivered a Broadcom hybrid-platform integration with Irdeto conditional access through project governance, vendor coordination and cross-functional execution.

MAY 2018 – AUG 2021Johannesburg, South Africa

MultiChoice Group

System Integration Specialist

Middleware integration, certification, release management and deployment readiness for broadcast and OTT platforms serving millions of subscribers.

AUG 2016 – APR 2018Stockholm, Sweden

Cisco Video Technologies

Senior Software Engineer

Development, integration and validation of digital TV and video-delivery platforms within global engineering teams.

JAN 2014 – JUL 2016Bengaluru, India

Tata Elxsi

Senior Software Engineer

Operator software development and integration across the full software development lifecycle.

ABOUT / 04

A technical background.
A regional perspective.

I started in software engineering and progressed through system integration and project delivery into regional product management. That path lets me work comfortably with engineering teams, operators and commercial stakeholders.

My career has taken me across India, Sweden, South Africa and the UAE, with operator engagements across the Middle East and Africa. Today, my focus is consumer electronics, telecom and IoT product management, alongside product-and-solutions roles.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Telecommunications
BMS Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India

English · Hindi

LET’S CONNECT / 05

Building your next
connected product?

I’m based in Dubai and open to product management and product-and-solutions opportunities across consumer electronics, telecom and IoT.

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