Barak Pinkston

IT Project Manager Systems Analyst @U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Austin, TX, US

Department of Veterans Affairs - Financial Services Center (FSC)Key Responsibilities:• Agile: Lead Daily Scrum meetings, sprint planning, and backlog grooming.• Performed requirements gathering, elicitation, and analysis in order to understand current state processes and to ensure that the context and implications of change are understood by the clients and the project team.• Identified and documented all business, technical, product and process requirements.• Elicited and analyzed all requirements, including complex business rules.• Helped to define acceptance criteria for completion of the solution.• Managed and documented requirements in Rational.• Worked with stakeholders and customers to validate and obtain approval for all deliverables.• Worked with Enterprise Architecture, Development and Test teams to ensure that the details of the requirements are fully communicated understood and implemented in all phases of the system design life cycle.• Familiarity with Rational, 508 accessibility requirements and SharePoint

Texas State University

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Finance, General

St.Edward's University

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance, General

Bellevue University

Master of Science (M.S.), Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services

Texas State University

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services