Benjamin Phelps

Ten-year veteran of federal government employment, actively looking for employment with a respected company in the private sector. My strength is managing projects in data collection and manipulation, representing results in a variety of forms (geospatial, DB framework, intelligence reporting, among others), market and intelligence research, and database management. As evidenced by holding the highest national security clearance in the country for ten years, I am dependable, honest, intelligent, and trustworthy. I have been repeatedly recognized by my peers and management for exemplary work impacting the Intelligence Community and I look forward to bringing that same commitment to excellence in my next role.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency - 2017-Present
Human Geography Linguist / Toponymic Team Lead
-Support the Office of Geography, focusing on political geography to provide linguistic and geographic names services to support production of standard and non-standard NGA products, specializing in Arabic, while working with Kurdish, Uighur, Neo-Tifinagh, Sinhala, and Tamil.
-Create, maintain, and teach NGA college course for Geographic Names history, methodologies, and implementation.-Exploit a variety and volume of open-source data including user-generated content and micro-census surveys
using established querying language programs (SQL, Oracle, etc.) to enhance the spatial, temporal, and
demographic resolution of modeling and analysis.
-Lead a team of Arabic linguists in new-hire training and quality control for both contractor and government
personnel.
-Maintain the official repository of foreign geographic names, the Geographic Names Database (GNDB) in
accordance with Public Law 80-242, housing over 13 million entries.
-Actively participate as a staff member of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (USBGN) Foreign Names
Committee (FNC) by producing proposals for name additions/changes to significant foreign geographic and
administrative features.
-Romanization Systems Coordinator responsible for communicating with external USG and FVEY partners and
developing new systems for standardized transliteration of foreign languages in non-Roman script.
-Software development with Esri from the remote/virtual test environment in the Foundation GEOINT
Modernization efforts across the Office of Geography.
-Served as Assistant Geographical Entities, Names, and Codes (GENC) data steward responsible for monitoring
and recording changes in spelling and codes of geopolitical entities and administrative subdivisions, and
correlating information with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
-Informational paper on Socotra, Yemen, stating the USG’s position on geographic names standardization in the
archipelago, was presented at BGN / PCGN Conference in Westminster, London, UK in March 2018.
-Meritorious Unit Citation (x3), individual cash and time off awards (x5)
-While a contractor with Leidos, served on the MACSS IDIQ proposal team which was successful in winning
over $250 million in new business.

SIG / CWU (National Security Agency) - 2014-2017
Cryptologic Language Analyst
-Built intelligence profiles on specific HVI targets through research, collection, exploitation, and analysis of
Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) materials.
-Performed translation, transcription, and gisting of SIGINT materials from target languages (Iraqi, Yemeni, and
Modern Standard Arabic) into English for real-time intelligence reporting supplemented by performing
Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) and Imagery Intelligence (IMINT).
-Supported counterintelligence, counterterrorism, ISR, and SIG/DEV missions, and aided in Document and
Media Exploitation (DOMEX) on ad hoc basis.
-As senior linguist performed technical training of new contractor and military staff and conducted quality
control of analysts' intelligence reporting.
-Remotely maintained SIGINT software on in-theater and overhead assets including, but not limited to, MQ-1, MQ-9, MC-12, RC-135, LEO, HEO, and GEO satellites.
-Received recognition as Performer of the Quarter among 250 contracted staff in October 2015.

United States Army - 2012-2014
Cryptologic Language Analyst

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Longwood University (2006-2010)
Concentration in Marketing

Associate of Arts in Arabic Studies
Defense Language Institute (2012-2014)