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BRIGETTE GARCIA

Manassas

Summary

Experience management and performance improvement professional with 15+ years of experience helping complex organizations improve how they operate, communicate, and make decisions. Experienced in leading enterprise feedback efforts, designing measurement frameworks, synthesizing qualitative and quantitative data, developing executive-level briefings, and coordinating cross-functional teams from problem identification through action planning and implementation. Strong background supporting defense healthcare, federal consulting, disaster recovery, legal/compliance, and high-tempo operational environments.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Defense Performance Strategist

NOVACES, LLC
Falls Church, VA
10.2022 - 05.2026

Client: U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

  • Designed and implemented VOCAL, a structured feedback-to-action service supporting survey design, analysis, executive reporting, experience measurement, and follow-on improvement planning.
  • Led enterprise feedback and experience management initiatives for Navy Medicine, translating workforce, service member, customer, and stakeholder input into actionable insights for senior leaders.
  • Advised government leaders on feedback strategy, metric selection, stakeholder interpretation, and priorities to improve service delivery, workforce experience, and organizational performance.
  • Designed and led large-scale retention and burnout feedback efforts to identify retention drivers, burnout risk, leadership perceptions, service gaps, and operational barriers.
  • Developed executive reports identifying pain points, capability gaps, root cause hypotheses, Critical to Quality factors, and priority actions across Navy Medicine communities.
  • Created repeatable feedback-to-action rhythms connecting survey findings to focus groups, working groups, leadership briefs, implementation trackers, and closeout products.
  • Planned and managed enterprise focus groups with approximately 60 to 100 participants and 6 facilitators per effort.
  • Guided cross-functional working groups of approximately 10 to 20 stakeholders per effort from problem identification through action planning, implementation tracking, and closure.
  • Developed KPI frameworks, dashboards, survey summaries, analytical products, and executive-ready recommendations to monitor experience, service delivery, and workforce improvement priorities.
  • Applied Lean Six Sigma and structured problem-solving methods to improve organizational performance and service delivery.

Disaster Management Consultant

NOVACES, LLC
Remote
01.2016 - 10.2022

Clients: FEMA / EDA, USET Inc., BP Gulf Coast Restoration Organization, and BP Wind Energy

  • Translated stakeholder needs, operational data, and complex recovery challenges into structured reports, decision-support products, and improvement tools for federal, Tribal, disaster recovery, and legal/compliance initiatives.
  • Synthesized Tribal stakeholder input, outreach findings, and readiness research into actionable service-delivery insights for USET’s Tribal Resilience project, helping define resilience gaps, planning needs, and measurable priorities across 33 Tribal Nations.
  • Developed executive and stakeholder-facing products that clarified recovery priorities, partner inputs, operational gaps, and progress across federal, territorial, Tribal, local, nonprofit, and private-sector partners.
  • Conducted operational process evaluations that improved reporting workflows, integrated disparate data sources, and strengthened visibility across multi-partner recovery and compliance environments.
  • Translated legal and operational stakeholder needs into structured tracking requirements for a BP Wind land lease compliance initiative, improving visibility, accountability, and decision support across a portfolio of approximately 1,500 contracts.
  • Maintained documentation integrity, chain-of-custody controls, and stakeholder coordination during a high-scrutiny Deepwater Horizon legal evidence transfer involving external parties.

Education

MBA - Project Management and Process Improvement

University of Houston - Downtown
Houston, TX
12-2020

Bachelor of Business Administration - Management Information Systems

University of Houston - Downtown
Houston, TX
12-2018

Associate of Arts - Business

Lone Star College
Houston, TX
12-2016

Skills

  • Experience management and feedback strategy
  • Survey design and qualitative insight synthesis
  • Performance improvement and operational assessment
  • Executive reporting and decision support
  • KPI development and measurement design
  • Stakeholder facilitation and cross-functional coordination
  • Root cause analysis and action planning
  • Workflow assessment and process redesign
  • Project coordination and workstream management
  • Federal consulting and stakeholder engagement
  • Knowledge management and collaboration tools
  • Data quality, documentation control, and audit readiness

Certification

  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (CLSSBB)
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
  • Certified Team Supervisor, CTS
  • FEMA IS-02900.a, National Disaster Recovery Framework Overview
  • ICS-100, ICS-200, ICS-700, ICS-800, ICS-320
  • Active Secret Security Clearance

Timeline

Defense Performance Strategist

NOVACES, LLC
10.2022 - 05.2026

Disaster Management Consultant

NOVACES, LLC
01.2016 - 10.2022

MBA - Project Management and Process Improvement

University of Houston - Downtown

Bachelor of Business Administration - Management Information Systems

University of Houston - Downtown

Associate of Arts - Business

Lone Star College
BRIGETTE GARCIA