Rahul Laskar

Rahul Laskar

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  • About me

    Senior Project Manager - Information Technology || SAFe® Agilist, CSM®, CSPO® || Problem Solver, Automation Expert, Cloud enthusiast

  • Education

    • Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

      2013 - 2015
      Master of Science - MS Computer Software Engineering
    • Indian Institute of Information Technology Kolkata (School of IT)

      2004 - 2008
      Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology
  • Experience

    • The US Oncology Network

      Mar 2009 - Oct 2009
      Java Developer

      o US Oncology - Liferay based portal design/ development:The US Oncology Network is the largest independent physician healthcare network that provides practice management services to over 45 oncology practices. Design & develop Liferay based portal for US Oncology employees’ daily operations. Urchin/ Google Analytics was implemented to capture the portal usage data & perform data analysis, Jasper API and iText were used to generate the reports based of the data captured

    • Walgreens

      Nov 2009 - Oct 2015
      Senior Developer/ Team Lead/ Onshore Delivery Lead

      o Walgreens Retail Pharmaceuticals – Retail Portal Apps Managed services :StoreNet is the landing portal for all the store workstations in 8,000+ Walgreens Stores across USA. It hosts multiple Walgreens in-house applications and act as a platform for any store users to perform daily operations. It also has a central version for Corporate (non-Store) users also. In the multi-year contract for managed service model – application development, enhancement, design, support for StoreNet portal and all associated applications were under the scope of work. Below are few major projects from this contract:High-level details of few major projects: o Retail Portal Apps iOS 7 compatibility: Portal application redesigning to make compatible with iOS 7. Walgreens Co. standard environment to access applications are Windows XP/ 7 in IE 6/ 8/ 10 browsers. Aim was to make application user experience uniform across the planforms, iPad/ iPhone (iOS 7) or desktops (Windows XP/ 7 or iOS 7)o WebSphere (WAS 6.5/8.5) application server migration: This project involved in application server migration for retail portal applications.Aim of this project was to migrate to uniform central application server i.e. WAS 8.5. Performance tuning, memory leakage, CPU utilization were part of this project objectives. o Project 7 - AS400/ WAS server store wide deployment: During this project application which are running in Tomcat/AS400 cluster (P5/P6) at store level were proposed to migrate to WAS 6.5/ AS400 cluster (P7). System redesign, application logic changes in alignment with business rules were part of this project.o Retail Portal Apps database upgrade from Oracle 9i to 11g: This project involved in migration of the central application database from version 9i to version 11g. Major objective of this project was to SQL bench marking, query tuning, application screen performance tuning etc. Show less

    • Kohl's

      Nov 2015 - Jul 2016
      Scrum Master

      o Kohl's - Security Remediation Project: Kohl’s is an American department store retail chain. The aim of this project is to upgrade to Java 8 from Java 6 for all the application under merchandising portfolio. As the project scope was wide spread across multiple applications, as a Scrum Master, ‘Agile’ methodology of project development was adopted using ‘Kanban’ approach. Preliminary phase of the project development included set-up the complete project in JIRA, create user stories, assign task & drive daily stand up calls Show less

    • Walgreens

      Jul 2016 - Dec 2020
      Senior Associate | Tech Lead

      o Walgreens Retail Finance Transformation – Master Data Cleansing: Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) Retail Finance Transformation (RFT) program involves implementation of SAP ECC across all DCs and 8000+ stores, and data migration from legacy to the new SAP system. For the legacy Master Data Management (MDM) systems - Walgreens has stipulated that vendors review and cleanse all items they are currently supplying to ensure data accuracy, quality and compliance in the migration process. Key challenge was - over 9000 suppliers across the globe are required to receive an actionable report with data failures due to the new SAP business rules, in order to take corrective actions. In alignment with business rules and SAP guidance data cleansing activities have been designed & carried out. Automating manual processes & provide data governance were key to this project.o Walgreens Space Planning Project Management Portal : WBA space planning business unit required one stop portal for all the sub-units i.e. Macro, Micro & extraction projects – Completed, on-going & Future. Bringing all the stake holders’ data into one umbrella was the biggest challenge. Solution has been provided with a Spring Boots portal with SharePoint integration by using RESTful web services – visualization in Google Charts API Show less

    • Walgreens Boots Alliance

      Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
      Manager - Projects | CSM | Agile Coach

      o Walgreens Retail Finance Transformation – Price optimization/ Markdown: Once WBA stores are converted to SAP from legacy – stores loose the access to make price optimization for the excess inventory present at the store. Main objective of this project was to understand the pain areas causing excess inventory at the store, work closely with the Merchants to come up with short term and long term mitigation plans, help the stores out with providing Markdowns in the regular retail price. Implementation of the difference process Automation in collaboration with the WBA robotics (RPA) team – has been one of the greatest milestone for this project. As Product Owner work with stakeholders & manage product backlogs – achieve ‘value’ by working closely with the SCRUM teamo Walgreens – Drug Signer certificate Application development : As Agile coach groom SCRUM team; guide through the implementation process and encourage leadership to embrace the agile methodo Walgreens – Pharmacy Staff License Verification integration with Verisys : Verisys to handle all license verifications replacing Web methods scrapping at State board websites – by integrating with Walgreens Online Licensing Function (WOLF) application. Managed team members from different service lines & played the role of SCRUM master. Show less

    • USAA

      Mar 2021 - Jul 2021
      Program Manager | Development Product Owner (DPO)

      o United Services Automobile Association (USAA) – P&C Data Modernization :Agile/ Scrum Product owner for a strategic multi-year Master data migration program & program manager responsible for On/Off/Near-shore teams’ delivery. As Product Owner working with multiple stakeholders & manage product backlogs – achieve ‘value’ working closely with the SCRUM teams (ART)

    • United Airlines

      Jul 2021 - now
      Senior Project Manager - Information Technology | Scrum Master

      o Digital Technology - Web(.com), mApps (iOS & Android); Cyber Security

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • AWS Solutions Training for Partners: IOT on AWS

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Jan 2021
    • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)

      Scrum Alliance
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    • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

      Scrum Alliance
      Nov 2021
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    • OCP - Hackathon Participant

      Microsoft
      Jun 2020
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    • SAFe Agilist Certification Certification

      Scaled Agile, Inc.
      Oct 2021
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    • Automation Anywhere BOT developer

      Automation Anywhere
      May 2021
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    • Sun Certified Java Developer (SCJD)

      Sun Microsystems
      Apr 2011
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    • AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Machine Learning on AWS

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Jan 2021
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Rahul Laskar
      Annual Award - WBA Townhall Q4'21 Scott TumSuden - VP - Projects, RCGTH - Commercial, Cognizant Dec 2021 Congratulations! Thank you for all you do for our business and clients
    • Awarded to Rahul Laskar
      Whackathon Winner - Retail Deepak Regunathan - Engagement Delivery Partner, Cognizant Apr 2021 Doing the right thing, the right way
    • Awarded to Rahul Laskar
      Cognizant's Certificate of Excellence - Retail Practice Scott TumSuden - VP SBU Leader & Sr. Platinum Client Partner Feb 2020 In recognition of outstanding performance and achievements to the success of WBA Markdown & Pricing BAU support, Cognizant thanks for your contributions.
    • Awarded to Rahul Laskar
      Cognizant - Long Service award Brian Humphries CEO Cognizant Mar 2019 'Long Service award' awarded to 'Rahul Laskar' for stellar performance and demonstrating the values of Cognizant. Congratulations and thank you for your invaluable contribution.
    • Awarded to Rahul Laskar
      Cognizant's Passion Award - Retail Practice Tapas Roy - Managing Partner, Cognizant Retail; Jodi Coplan - HR manager, Cognizant Retail Jun 2018
    • Awarded to Rahul Laskar
      Cognizant's Outstanding Team Player & Leader Manish Verma - Regional Head, US North Central, Retail & CPG, Cognizant Apr 2014 In recognition of outstanding contribution to StoreNet project