Peter Russo
Design Lead at Ad Hoc LLC
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Russo is a Design Lead with 9 years of experience who builds UX operations, research practices, and cross-functional collaboration to simplify complex products and drive measurable outcomes. At Ad Hoc he leads design for VA.gov and the VA Health and Benefits app, contributing to tools used by nearly 1 million monthly users and lifting customer satisfaction from 56% to 75%. He specializes in operationalizing continuous discovery, service design, and accessibility—establishing feedback systems that catch production issues in real time and accessibility frameworks tied to acceptance criteria. Peter pairs hands-on research and strategic facilitation, having run workshops that consolidated 100+ product variations into coherent mental models and grown UX teams earlier in his career. Based in Portland, his printmaking background and early web development experience uniquely inform how he collaborates with engineering and approaches design as a craft.
9 years of coding experience
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Italian, Spanish, English
Github Skills (13)
frontend10
team-project9
documentation4
docker3
json2
staging1
typescript1
schema-validation1
nextjs1
json-schema1
combinations1
react1
mobile1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
outerpress/tirn-mercury-calculator
Aug 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:11 pushes in 10 months
outerpress/vets-design-system-documentation
Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
Repository for design.va.gov website
Contributions:2 pushes in 11 months
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