Ira Barash
Plano, USA
Ira Barash is married and employed by VisionIT in a contractor role working at HP as a project manager. Previously, he worked for two years as a contractor at Capital One Financial through Strategic Staffing in the mortgage application and infrastructure areas. Barash received his PMP® from the Project Management Institute (PMI®) (2012), a certificate in Project Management from the Graduate School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas (2007), a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance from Wright State University (1989) and a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Quantitative Analysis from the University of Cincinnati - Carl H. Lindner School of Business (1976).
From 2010 to 2012, Barash was Volunteer Commissioner for the City of Plano on Community Relations Committee. He and his wife actively support the Plano (Texas) Symphony Orchestra through volunteering and financially as a Virtuoso Member. He is a member of PMI, the PMI Dallas Chapter and Toastmasters. He recently presented a paper, Use of Agile with XP and Kanban Methodologies in the Same Project, at the 7th Annual University of Texas Dallas Project Management Symposium on August 15, 2013 in Richardson, Texas.
Ira’s passions are to be a terrific husband, have challenging work assignments, live a healthy lifestyle including traveling, exercise, writing and supporting of non-profits financially, and by volunteering.
Ira is on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/irabarashmba and may be contacted by email at ibarash205@gmail.com