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Education

• Master of Science, Psychology
  Florida International University, Miami, Florida
• Bachelor of Arts, Psychology
  Florida International University, Miami, Florida

Professional Activities

Kevin Brown, SPHR, is Vice President of Human Resources at Atkins, a global engineering firm with more than 18,000 employees worldwide. He has been with Atkins for almost twelve years, and previously served as HR Manager at Harper Partners, Inc (now HKS) and provided HR consulting services through his private practice, Brown Consulting Services, Inc. Kevin has been a faculty member in the Department of Management at Florida International University since 2002, and previously taught in courses in personnel psychology for the Department of Psychology beginning in 2000.

In his more than 15-year career, he has developed a reputation for his expertise in compensation practices in the A/E/C industry, with a special focus on executive compensation in public companies. Specialties include: Executive compensation in SEC-reporting companies; compensation planning and design; benefits modeling and administration; recruiting and talent acquisition (systems and process design); HR information systems implementation and administration; training and development.

Courses Taught

• Business and Professional Communication
• Critical Thinking in Human Resource Management
• Human Resource Information Systems
• Human Resource Knowledge Management
• Human Resource Management
• International Human Resources
• Organizational Behavior
• Performance and Talent Management
• Recruitment and Staffing
• Reward Systems Management
• Training and Development