Kevin Harkin

Experience

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  Allstate

  Aug 2001 - Dec 2023

  • Manager of employees based in Ireland, USA, and India (including contractors)• Delivery Lead for multiple large initiatives. • Handle work intake, planning and capacity management. Sprint Planning, Story writing, Backlog refinement, Internal/External stakeholder collaboration.• Deliver large projects with control of budgeting through to live deployment. • Co-ordinate and sign off our production change orders and manage our production releases. • Drive quality across all our Product teams• Define our KPI’s and ensure the goals set for team members are geared towards us exceeding all set targets. • Coach and mentor employees in their self-development, giving them every opportunity to advance their careers.• Fosters a collaborative environment that inspires and motivates a large number of employees• Lead teams in understanding the link between Allstate objectives and their contributions• Lead and implement change management initiatives for the Director Level• Report on live Problem and Incident tickets at weekly Officer review board.• Manage the engagement budget, ensuring effective allocation of resources. • Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders• Ensure effective communication and collaboration to maximize engagement and impact• Lead recruitment and growth. Writing job-specs, short-listing candidates, conducting interviews right through to onboarding successful candidates. Show less • Manager of employees based in Ireland, USA, and India (including contractors)• Delivery Lead for multiple large initiatives. • Handle work intake, planning and capacity management • Deliver large projects with control of budgeting thru to live deployment. • Co-ordinate and sign off our production change orders and manage our production releases. • Drive quality across all our scrum teams• Coach and mentor employees in their self-development, giving them every opportunity to advance their careers. • Performed Scrum Master role for a period of 6 months on two separate Product Teams, as we moved ahead with our transition to Agile.• I shared the story of our Agile transition to multiple areas across various Allstate Organisations to aid their transition journey. Feedback on this knowledge-share was fantastic. Show less • Manage workload among global team resources.• Report to and negotiate with system/project managers.• Ensure quality is maintained at all times, for all tasks big or small. • Provide estimates and forecast task completion.• Design and deliver fully tested program/system enhancements.• Responsible for change management documentation and signoffs. • Lead technical production deployments.• Provide support on the daily production cycle. • Manage Tibco applications across all environments i.e., ITest, QA, Pre-Production and Production. Show less

  • Senior Delivery Manager at Allstate Northern Ireland

    Nov 2019 - Dec 2023

  • Team/Delivery Manager at Allstate Northern Ireland

    Sept 2014 - Nov 2019

  • Lead Software Developer

    Jun 2012 - Sept 2014

  • Software Developer

    Aug 2001 - Jun 2012
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  AVEVA

  Dec 2023 - now

  R&D Manager