Atticus Ryan

About Atticus Ryan

I work with teams to establish and optimize collaborative and sustainable ways of working, foster improvement cultures, and build resilient relationships. Why? So we can define and deliver valuable outcomes! That is a mouthful, but each aspect is essential for collective by my background in technical software and systems integration testing, I embrace an approach that focuses on the user experience and engaging closely with stakeholders to reduce risk and increase trust, confidence, and satisfaction across the development lifecycle.The past decade+ has emphasized product delivery strategy and coordination, agile and team coaching, and leadership of on/offshore supplier and in-house test services and teams using incremental/iterative and traditional approaches. I am also skilled in executing and championing organizational change and process improvement in complex environments.I enjoy imagining other worlds through (especially dystopian) strategy and tabletop role-playing games, military scale model-building, and exploring history through amateur genealogy (including tracing one branch of ancestors to the early-1500s).Last but not least, I hold dual nationality and can legally work throughout the U.S. and Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I), Human-Centered Design Practitioner, Certified Scrum Professional - ScrumMaster (CSP-SM), Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II), Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I), Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK I), Kanban Management Professional (KMP), Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence-Based Management (PAL-EBM), PRINCE2 Project Management Foundation, Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Foundation, Test Maturity Model Integration (TMMi) nice thing about living in a slower era was that you could master a technology before it was obsolete. And you cannot do that anymore. — Cory Doctorow (Vintage Tomorrows, 2015)

Experience

1. Senior Product Owner

   Duquesne Light Company

   Feb 2025 — Present · Pittsburgh, PA, US

   Guide product roadmaps and prioritization across domains (primarily, meter operations, system planning and protection, and transportation) and lead system deliveries.

Education

• University of Amsterdam

  Master of Arts

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Program Management
• Management
• Test Strategy
• Contract Management
• Business Analysis
• System Testing
• Telecommunications
• Quality Assurance
• Test Management
• Vendor Management
• Oxford Comma
• Requirements Analysis
• User Experience
• Business Process Improvement
• Business Transformation
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Portfolio Management
• IT Service Management
• Test Planning
• Change Management
• Coaching & Mentoring