Vijay Unnikrishnan Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Program: FCS Claims Disbursements Modernization• Extensively involved in the development of SOW, defining scope, size of work effort and preparation of staffing model• Providing leadership, supervision, performance management, development, coaching, and mentoring of direct reports so they can carry out their role to the highest possible standard• Communicating results clearly and concisely both verbally and through written communications via validation reports and presentations• Liaising with the Clients, Project Board, Team Managers and working closely with IT Architects to manage project dependencies, prepare project briefs, compile reports and maintain records, while ensuring all stakeholders are up to date and up to speed with developments.• Lead a team of architects, BAs, SAs, developers, data engineers and data administrators to ensure that the existing FCS application is built on the new modernized platform meeting expectations and requirements• Lead brainstorming sessions on architecture and Project Plan development, highlighting key milestones/deliverables, along with risks/issues• Manage 8 agile teams ensuring the delivery of all the project capabilities and features

Richmond, Virginia, United States

• Lead the delivery of 15 Tableau dashboards and the related data hub • Establish the resource plan, project management plan, project schedule, work products and coordinate the activities of various project contributors• Led requirements gathering sessions with key Stakeholders’ for creating the dashboard wireframes and confirming data sources• Led Prototyping sessions and UAT validation sessions to ensure dashboards implemented are as per business requirements and IBM quality standards• Led the deployment plan creation, implementation and pilot release validations for a smooth Go Live

Richmond, Virginia

Programs: Healthy Innovations Platform (HIP), Anthem Enterprise Data Lake, Big Data Fabric (BDF) – Data Extract projects, Application Rationalization System Decommission–AMISYS, 606 Anthem Modernization, Health Insurance Exchange (HIX) Migration and National Ad Hoc MigrationsProjects: WGS OHAS Pricing, ASO Billing Migration to RMB• Led the migration effort of BDF Data Extract application to AWS Cloud utilizing Anthem Enterprise Data Lake (AEDL) architecture framework• Led projects from planning to closing, working with technical teams, Business Analysts, QA Leads and other stakeholders• Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focus teams on business objectives to ensure project milestones are completed on time, on budget and with the desired results• Mitigate risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipate and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments• Coordinate bi-weekly Portfolio meetings for Projects with the Client Director, IT Managers, Anthem Subject Matter Experts and key Stakeholders to discuss the status, risks and issues• Represent changes in Release meetings, getting all stake holder approvals for production implementation and ensuring the changes are being implemented successfully in major releases• Manage onshore & Offshore teams for AMISYS and CHIPS E&B applications• Manage and coordinate multiple systems/teams involved to ensure successful delivery of the efforts as per the Business Requirements• Facilitate project discovery sessions with business and execution team to identify stakeholder requirements• Led JAD sessions and translate business requirements into business, functional and technical requirements• Perform requirement analysis, detailed technical design, build and test solutions• Support System Integration Test and User Acceptance Test• Build deployment plans, coordinate release management, and perform production implementations

Richmond, Virginia

Anthem's AMISYS Claims system and CHIPS Membership & Billing System

Bangalore, India

Embarq, CenturyLink Order Entry systems

Trivandrum

Wellpoint's Planmate Claims Adjudication System

Master Of Computer Applications (Mca)

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Physics