Abhishek Sharma

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Head of Application Networking and Security Solution Engineering - Asia Pacific and Japan @ Broadcom
Sydney, NSW, AU
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Greater Sydney Area, Australia
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About Abhishek Sharma

High achieving, competitive, results driven and visionary. I am an experienced sales engineering leader with a vision to see & develop solutions to complex problems. My strength is in the ability to effectively balance hands on engagement with strong leadership direction, as well as successfully executing operational demands with clear strategic focus. I am a dedicated, passionate & strong people leader who has global experience in working with people across diverse cultures & backgrounds. I believe in adapting leadership styles to motivate the teams & get everyone driving towards a common goal. I am also passionate about developing talent in the organisation & the industry.In my current role at Broadcom, I lead a great team of Solution Engineers and Technology Adoption Managers who specialize in Application Networking, Load Balancing & Security working with our partners & customers across Asia pacific region. We sell innovation through technology, driving business outcomes with tangible deliverables that are leading edge & profitable. It is essential in my role that I keep abreast of the huge spread of changing technologies - its uses & how to apply them to achieve the best business outcomes for our partners & customers. In addition I am actively involved in many parts of the business & various projects while leading my current teams.Skills at a glance: Sales strategy, sales & technical sales management, strategic development, relationship development, successful team leadership, strong people management, partner development & enablement and consultative sales & guidance.

Abhishek Sharma's Current Company Details
Broadcom

Broadcom

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Head of Application Networking and Security Solution Engineering - Asia Pacific and Japan
Sydney, NSW, AU
Website:
broadcom.com
Employees:
57414
Abhishek Sharma Work Experience Details
  • Broadcom
    Head Of Application Networking And Security Solution Engineering - Asia Pacific And Japan
    Broadcom
    Sydney, Nsw, Au
  • Broadcom
    Head Of Application Networking & Security Solution Engineering - Asia Pacific & Japan
    Broadcom Oct 2024 - Present
    Leading Application Networking & Security Solution Engineers and Technology Adoption Managers across APAC region. Technical leader focused on helping our Customers & Partners address their business problems & while helping them on their platform transformation & security journey. The application networking & security team focuses on helping our customers navigate the application performance, load balancing, platform security, gateway security and other security challenges arising from adoption of multiple cloud platforms, modern applications, consistent policy enforcement across entire organisational domain and legacy systems.
  • Broadcom Software
    Head Of Cloud Infrastructure Architects Asia Pacific & Japan
    Broadcom Software Nov 2023 - Oct 2024
    Australia
    Head of specialist architects representing the cloud infrastructure solutions for Broadcom across APAC region. Technical leader focused on helping our Customers & Partners address their business problems & while helping them on their platform transformation journey. The cloud infrastructure architect team focuses on helping our customers navigate the platform challenges arising from adoption of multiple cloud platforms, modern applications, consistent policy enforcement across entire organisational domain and legacy systems.
  • Vmware
    Director Solution Engineering - Networking & Security
    Vmware Aug 2020 - Mar 2024
    Sydney, Australia
    Director of Solutions Engineering representing the Networking & Security business for VMware in ANZ. Technical leader for Pre-sales Solution Engineers focused on helping our Customers & Partners address their business problems & while helping them on their digital transformation journey. The Networking & Security solution engineering team focuses on helping our customers navigate the networking & security challenges arising from adoption of multiple cloud platforms, modern applications, consistent policy enforcement across entire organisational domain and legacy systems.
  • Vmware
    Technology Leader & Snr Manager Specialist Engineers, Software-Defined Data Centre
    Vmware Jan 2017 - Aug 2020
    Sydney, Australia
    Technical leader representing the Software-Defined Datacentre business unit for VMware in ANZ. Leading a team of Pre-sales Specialist Engineers focused on helping our Customers & Partners address their business problems & digital transition.Helping the ANZ team build & drive Channel for NSX, vSAN & Cloud management sales & delivery.VMware is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility. VMware accelerates customers’ digital transformation journey by enabling enterprises to master a software-defined approach to business and IT.VMware NSX is the network virtualization platform that delivers the operational model of a virtual machine for networking and security. Similar to VMs for compute, virtual networks are programmatically provisioned and managed independent of the underlying network hardware – transforming data centre networking and making possible new levels of security, automation, and application continuity.VMware NSX enables the replication of entire networks and their security functions in software, allowing network topology to be created in minutes and bringing with it an inherently more secure architecture.
  • Cisco Systems Australia Pvt Ltd
    Senior Manager, Systems Engineering Anz Sales
    Cisco Systems Australia Pvt Ltd Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
    Sydney, Australia
    Engineering leader for our Partner community, NSW & WA States in Australia.- Technical lead for Partner organisation in Australia & responsible for our strategic engagements in the partner community.- Leading technical customer engagements across all segments in NSW & WA states in Australia.- Responsible for key strategic customer relationships in NSW & WA states in Australia.- Leading key technical relationships in our partner community to drive Cisco differentiation & investment.- Leading technology & market trends discussions with our partners & customers while highlighting their impact on our partnership & customer outcomes.- Leading various partner enablement activities delivering partner education, learning, enablement & readiness.
  • Cisco Systems Australia Pvt Ltd
    Senior Manager, Systems Engineering Anz Sales
    Cisco Systems Australia Pvt Ltd Aug 2015 - Aug 2016
    Sydney, Australia
    Leading a team of pre-sales engineers responsible for our partner community & commercial market segment.- Technical lead for partner organisation and internal account teams responsible for our partners & commercial market segment.- Leading key relationships in Partner technical community to drive Cisco value proposition & investment.- Supporting commercial engineering teams with key customer deals & relationships.- Leading various partner enablement activities delivering partner education, learning, enablement & readiness.- Leading the Virtual Territory SE pilot in APJ.- Lead engineering manager at Cisco Live Melbourne responsible for our partner insight program, partner engagement and case studies.- Lead for DevNet program at Cisco Live Melbourne 2016.- Representing APJC region at the Global Partner engineering forums and meetings.- Leading technology & market trends discussions with our partners & impact on our partnership & customer opportunities.- Recipient of Manager Excellence Award - 2015
  • Cisco Systems Australia Pvt Ltd
    Senior Manager, Partner Systems Engineering Anz Sales
    Cisco Systems Australia Pvt Ltd Aug 2012 - Jul 2015
    Sydney, Australia
    Leading a team of pre-sales engineers responsible for our partner community.- Technical lead for partner organisation and internal account teams responsible for our partners.- Leading key relationships in Partner technical community to drive Cisco value proposition & investment.- Lead engineering manager for our Data Centre specialist teams.- Leading various partner enablement activities delivering partner education, learning, enablement & readiness.- Lead engineering manager at Cisco Live Melbourne responsible for our partner insight program, partner engagement and case studies.- Lead for DevNet program at Cisco Live Melbourne 2015.- Representing APJC region at the Global Partner engineering forums and meetings.- Leading technology & market trends discussions with our partners & impact on our partnership & customer opportunities.
  • Cisco Systems Australia Pvt Ltd
    Manager, Systems Engineering Anz Sales
    Cisco Systems Australia Pvt Ltd Aug 2010 - Jul 2012
    Sydney, Australia
    Leading a team of pre-sales engineers responsible for our partner community & commercial market segment.- Technical lead for partner organisation and internal account teams responsible for our partners & commercial market segment.- Lead engineering manager for our Data Centre specialist teams.- Leading various partner enablement activities delivering partner education, learning, enablement & readiness.- Lead engineering manager at Cisco Live Melbourne responsible for our partner engagement and case studies.- Representing APJC region at the Global Partner engineering forums and meetings.- Leading technology & market trends discussions with our partners & customers highlighting impact on our partnership & customer opportunities.
  • Cisco Systems Australia Pvt Ltd
    Stand-In Regional Sales Manager - Commercial Market Segment & Distribution Partners
    Cisco Systems Australia Pvt Ltd Jan 2012 - May 2012
    Sydney, Australia
    Stand-in as Regional Sales Manager responsible for our Distribution Partners & Non-named commercial market segment (Jan – May 2012).- Managing Sales Representatives responsible for the non-names customers & Distribution Partners- Responsible for Sales forecast from Commercial Sales representatives & our Distribution Partners- Responsible for developing & leading programs for the Commercial market segment customers
  • Cisco Systems
    Manager, Frontline Systems Engineering Team - Technology Solutions Network
    Cisco Systems Aug 2009 - Jul 2010
    Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
    Leading & Managing team of pre-sales engineers to support internal field sales teams in Europe & Emerging Markets.- Providing Global support for new technology introduction in the sales teams- Part of Global Management team working with culturally & gender diverse team.- Working with Theatre leads to increase Technology Solutions Network program adoption rate.- Leading Global projects and Strategies for the Frontline engineering team.- Technology lead for Unified Communications in the Global Frontline engineering team
  • Cisco Systems
    Manager, Learning & Development - Cisco Sales Associate Program
    Cisco Systems Aug 2008 - Jul 2009
    Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
    Leading a diverse team in the Sales Associate Program including Sales & Technical members.- Part of Management team responsible for strategic and operational direction of the Cisco Sales Associate Program.- Delivering trainings & sharing personal field experiences in the program with the associates.- Coaching individuals to achieve higher performance and better results by focused skills development- Responsible for communications with regional field sales teams, executive leaders and representatives for Nordic, Mediterranean and UK regions- Organising and participating in various assessments of the associates in the program and also to define improvement plans for them.- Involved in various initiatives through the program like Sales Force, Engineering tools etc.- Member of Core team working on Field Placements for the Associates in various organizations.
  • Cisco Systems South Africa
    Manager, Systems Engineer
    Cisco Systems South Africa Mar 2007 - Aug 2008
    Johannesburg Area, South Africa
    Lead for technical pre-sales engineering teams responsible for channel partners and commercial market segment- Leading key pilot in South Africa for sales force usage for systems engineering in emerging markets- CCIE Boot camp and Ignite program sponsor for South Africa- Leading various partner enablement activities in South Africa including partner virtual team meetings- Technical lead for World of solutions at Networkers Africa 2007. Networkers is the most important user conference for networking professionals and where our customers and partners get opportunity for training, meeting Cisco experts and gather information necessary to keep up with Cisco’s technologies, solutions and products.- Technical lead for Networkers Africa 2008. Networkers is the most important user conference for networking professionals and where our customers and partners get opportunity for training, meeting Cisco experts and gather information necessary to keep up with Cisco’s technologies, solutions and products.
  • Cisco Systems South Africa
    Channel Systems Engineer
    Cisco Systems South Africa Jun 2005 - Mar 2007
    Johannesburg Area, South Africa
    Technical leadership and direction for Dimension Data which is the biggest channel partner in South Africa- Focused on Unified Communications as a technology- Technical lead for Unified Communications for South Africa- Member of Unified Communications virtual team- Member of Unified Communications emerging markets and Global technical advisory group teams- Presented at various Cisco and industry events on Unified Communications including internal and partners virtual team meetings in Amsterdam- Recipient of Channel SE of the year South Africa award for FY 2007- Recipient of Channel SE of the year South Africa award for FY 2006- Recipient of Channel SE of the year Middle East and Africa region award for FY 2006- Recipient of Channel SE of the quarter Emerging markets FY 2006
  • Cisco Systems South Africa
    Systems Engineer
    Cisco Systems South Africa Nov 2002 - May 2005
    Johannesburg Area, South Africa
    Technology leadership to account teams in Commercial market segment- Focused on Unified Communications as a technology- Member of technical leadership team for Unified Communications in South Africa- Member of Unified Communications virtual team- Worked with various key & strategic accounts like Toyota, General Motors, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Barloworld, Checkers Hypermarkets, National Ports Authority, Kwazulu Natal metropolitan, University of Kwazulu Natal, Ampath, Ernst & young etc.
  • Cisco Systems
    Systems Engineer
    Cisco Systems Sep 2000 - Oct 2002
    Johannesburg Area, South Africa
    Technology leadership to account teams in Service provider market segment- Focused on Network Management as a technology- Worked with various key & strategic accounts like incumbent Telkom, mobile providers such as MTN and Cell C, Eskom, Transtel and Internet Solutions
  • Cisco Systems
    Associate Systems Engineer
    Cisco Systems Mar 1998 - Aug 2000
    Johannesburg Area, South Africa
    Provided technical support to account teams in Enterprise market segment- Technical lead for Demonstration labs in South Africa- Attended Cisco Graduate program in Brussels

Abhishek Sharma Education Details

  • Parktown Boys' High School
    Parktown Boys' High School
    Diploma In Computing & Business Studies
  • Hans Raj Model School
    Hans Raj Model School
    High School

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