Siva Adhikesavan

About Siva Adhikesavan

Professional IT Project Manager with 18 years of experience in Healthcare industry cutting across top US Healthcare payers –CVS(Aetna) and Centene in various domains – Plan, Member, Billing, Claims, Provider, Medicare, Medical Management, Brokers and Pricing including 5010 and ICD-10 • End-to-end Project Management including stakeholder engagement, project feasibility, benefits value mapping, team management, risk/change management, delivery reports• 2 years at onsite (USA) as Project/Onsite coordinator.• Demonstrated leadership skills in achieving budget targets with productive quality standards• Technically sound Software Engineering Manager effective in analyzing relevant information and leading all phases of the product cycle from conception to completion.• SALESFORCE: Experience in Salesforce (SFDC) CRM Platform, worked with Cases, Contacts and Accounts entities in Service Cloud Platform and worked in a few custom objects such as Provider, Prior auth (Specific to our Domain)• Successfully managed complex programs and projects with global implementation(multi -region) and rapidly evolving requirements• Ability to influence, persuade, lead and motivate the team and project sponsors in order to achieve the various goals and objectives of the project, excellent interpersonal skills, capable of developing effective relationships across the department and engaging with the people in effective way to deliver outcomes. • Collaborative leader, proven ability to lead and develop teams, who works extremely well in dedicated and matrix team environment and cross functionally. • Translated business requirements and/or initiatives into a conceptual solution described through Epics and Stories and application of abstraction to ensure the right level of detail to the key stakeholders. • Performed the Scrum Master Role managing cross-functional teams, bringing transparency and facilitating events - Sprint Planning, Estimation Workshops, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review, Fun Retrospectives.

Experience

1. Associate Director

   Cognizant

   Jun 2025 — Present

Education

• BITS Pilani Work Integrated Learning Programmes

  Master of Technology - MTech

  2013 — 2015

• College of Engineering, Guindy

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

  2003 — 2007