Philip Foster
Senior System Engineer at SAIC
Ashburn, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolPhilip Foster is a Senior System Engineer and certified PMP/CSM with over 18 years of program and project management experience and a decade focused on software delivery in federal and commercial markets. He has a proven track record leading cross-functional Agile teams—having served as ScrumMaster for an 18-person engineering team at TeraLogics and managed multi-million-dollar portfolios at Equifax—bridging product, DevOps, and stakeholders to drive timely, quality releases. Based in Ashburn, VA, he specializes in integrating SaaS tooling (JIRA, Trello, Slack, Git) to automate workflows, improve transparency, and measure team performance with actionable metrics. Philip’s background spans systems engineering, business analysis, and change management across organizations including SAIC, Freddie Mac, and Equifax, giving him deep experience in regulated and mission-critical environments. Known for translating user research into prioritized user stories and for mentoring teams through Agile transformations, he brings both tactical delivery skills and strategic program oversight. Unexpectedly, his early career in HR and legal-division systems work informs a pragmatic, people-first approach to process and compliance.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Information Technology, B.S. Information Technology at Virginia TechGithub contributions (2)
TeraLogics/TotalBriecall
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 26 pushes, 1 comment in 5 days
18F/bpa-opm-eqip
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:1 issue in 1 day
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