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Vikas' work with UNICEF Europe and Central Asia has won Hashcode the AIIA Australian National Merit award 2023 for innovation. His work with Mentegram has also won the State Merit award for innovation

Vikas specialises in partnerships within the healthcare segment. Over the last 20 years in Australia, he has worked with private and public hospital groups, community health, primary health services, international charities and government, both locally and internationally.

Vikas has worked with research organisations like kConFab, Peter MacCallum and the Australian bio-specimen centre in building a bio-repository. He has also designed and built a visual inventory management solution to manage stem cells for the Australian Stem cell centre.

He has been the principal consultant for auditing & consulting for the National Blood Bank Service (Ministry of Health, Malaysia). Vikas also provided solution consulting in mental health for Malaysia’s national transition from an inpatient based model of care to community-based care.

Vikas has valuable product lifecycle experience from conceptual design to marketing and sales of healthcare products, involved deeply in all aspects of product development.

He has been the product manager, technical and solution architect for the world’s most comprehensive mental health clinical electronic medical record (EMR). He is well versed with healthcare integration standards, international healthcare vendors and healthcare datasets.

He has lead over 20 medium to large project implementations including UNICEF usupport, ACT Health, headspace, St. John of God, Area Health Services, Medicare Locals, Singapore airlines and SA Lotteries.

Vikas was the initial solution architect and product manager for the headspace data warehouse. The solution analysed mental health operational and clinical data using de-identified information and was built using SQL Server Integration & Analysis services. He has presented at the big data conference (HISA 2015) on the topic Measuring outcomes clearly: Overcoming challenges of mental health and chronic disease reporting.