Osmo Vikman is currently working in the Nokia Research Center, Software Technology laboratory, SPI-group in Helsinki, Finland as an R&D Manager. His group is focusing on systems engineering and requirements/change/compatibility management in large telecommunications system product programs. He received his master's degree in electronics engineering in 1973 from the Tampere University of Technology, Finland. Prior to joining Nokia Telecommunications in the beginning of 1991 he had worked in several finnish software/system development companies as a programmer, systems analyst, project manager and consultant.

At Nokia Telecommunications he worked for seven years in various telecommunications R&D-projects as an engineering manager and senior technical consultant. In March 1998, he joined Nokia Research Center, Software Technology Laboratory, where he is currently in charge of the Systems Engineering and Requirements Engineering research in the SPI-group. Prior to joining Nokia, he had also contributed to various international standardization workgroups and to a broadband ISDN research project in the RACE-program in 1989 – 1990.