Ana Monroe
Chief Executive Officer at Ishmael Interactive
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolAna Monroe is a CEO and design-driven executive with a decade of experience turning visionary, cross-silo goals into practical, measurable outcomes for public and private organizations. She built the first dedicated Service Design team at GSA, led award-winning enterprise digital experience initiatives, and redesigned the Human-centered Design Guide used across federal agencies. Her background spans product strategy, human-centered research, and creative direction—from co-founding Typetura and patent-backed secure messaging work to production design in film and commercial industries—giving her an unusual blend of technical, creative, and operational fluency. Ana excels at enabling support functions (HR, IT, Communications, Compliance) to demonstrate clear organizational value rather than cost, and she’s passionate about scalable, reusable solutions that serve many clients. Based in Los Angeles, she combines a MFA in Media Design Practices with hands-on public sector impact, often teaching and spreading design practices across government. A quick-to-iterate problem solver, she favors curiosity and usefulness as her guiding principles.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)- STEM Media Design Practices, Master of Fine Arts (MFA)- STEM Media Design Practices at ArtCenter College of DesignProfessional Certification 3D Design / AutoCAD certification, Professional Certification 3D Design / AutoCAD certification at New York UniversityB.A. Modern European History & Modern Romance Languages, B.A. Modern European History & Modern Romance Languages at Columbia University
Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (17)
user-feedback9
service-design8
stimulusjs7
user-experience7
activemodel7
mhealth6
edx6
policies6
recurly5
accounting5
fundamentals5
discovery4
design-patterns4
creative-commons3
react3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
The-Lab-at-OPM/HCD-Design-Operations-Guide
Apr 2020 - May 2022
Design Operations Guide
Contributions:4 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
design-patternsdesigndesign-system
The-Lab-at-OPM/HCD-Guides
Jul 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:55 commits, 51 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
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