Brigitte Donovan Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Health & Wellness Studio providing lifestyle design services for healthier, happier living.

• Manage project lifecycle from kickoff to presenting final reports and findings to client.
• Develop project strategy, study plan, and research questions based on client goals.
• Lead and moderate sessions and synthesize findings into actionable insights and product recommendations.

• Led discovery and development for Donor Management software supporting the Advancement Offices of higher education institutions.
• Created personas, user workflows, and heuristic guidelines to socialize a user-centered approach to development.
• Built and managed a product backlog with user stories crafted from collaboration with users, design, engineering, and stakeholders.
• Conducted participatory design sessions with cross-functional teams to tackle larger, complex challenges.
• Collaborated with product and marketing leadership to develop a product portfolio and marketing strategy.
• Managed user feedback software and repository and integrated user requests into research and discovery initiatives.

Austin, Texas, United States

• Research, training, and consulting on innovation best practices for early-stage development. Services included:
• Conducted research and provided reports and proposals based on discovered user and market insights.
• Organized business, user, and system requirements into tangible roadmaps for lean, early-phase startups.
• Developed prototypes and facilitated testing for projects enhancing system designs and increasing user engagement.
• Conducted ethnographic studies and user interviews to gather insights and uncover core user needs, motivations, and pain points.
• Worked across teams to design and implement a new system for tracking and coordinating user requests.

Austin, Texas Area

• Certified scrum product owner for agile teams focusing on interoperability across healthcare settings and systems.
• user-centric research, including ethnographic field studies, user interviews, testing, and user behavior tracking and analysis.
• Presented insight synthesis from user and market research which informed business and design decisions.
• Coordinated with teams across product zones and geographies to create high-value functionality that was in alignment with company-wide initiatives.
• Co-chair of Women’s Leadership Forum, facilitating personal and career development through speaker events, mentorship programs, and LeanIn circles.

Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

• Elicited feature requirements from business stakeholders and subject matter experts
• Created project plans covering predicted cost, scope, and technical constraints based on planning with architects, development, design, and QA teams
• Collaborated with marketing, implementation, software support, and interface engine teams to drive customer satisfaction via new product functionality and enhancements
• Groomed and developed backlogs for full product suite.
• Held focus groups, concept tests, site visits, and innovation workshops with healthcare providers.
• Worked directly with beta clients to identify areas to improve usability and scalability before releasing enhancements.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Information Systems And Operations Management

• Coursework in the fundamentals of business administration; IT concentrated courses in managerial operations analysis, business systems.

Health Informatics And Health It

• 9 week program that provided a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of health informatics and health IT • Coursework in the.

Visual Communication And Fine Art

• Coursework in digital imaging, digital publishing, graphic design, the history of visual communication, color theory, illustration, and.

Education record

Coursework in Spanish language and culture

Boot Camp, Ux/Ui