Ben Newcomb

Background

About Ben Newcomb

A driven and dedicated IT professional with over twenty-five years experience in most areas of Information Services. Twenty-two plus years in the Aviation Industry, building service industry infrastructure and establishing/maintaining relationships with many government agencies (US Customs and Border Protection Agency, Federal Aviation Administration, Canada Border Services Agency, United Kingdom’s eBorders), airlines, and service industries. Expertise in areas Executive Skills • Project Management • Team Management • Strong analytical skills • Technical Documentation • Effective verbal and written communication skills • Disaster Recovery • Business Continuity • Work Independently or with a Team • Government Agency Liaison (NavCanada, FAA, IATA, USCBP, CBSA, CARICOM, Aviation (Airline/Corporate/GA) Skills • Type B Messaging • UNEDIFACT (APIS and variants) • AFTN Messaging (Flight Plans, permits, Development Skills • C/C++ • UNIX Admin/Shell Scripting • PHP • Perl • Network (TCP/IP, CISCO IOS, DNS, SMTP, etc) • MySQL My goal is to help build AvFinity, LLC into a highly successful multinational aviation communications company. We are well on our way. Specialties: Twenty+ years in UNIX, C, Network (TCP/IP, routing, LAN/WAN, DNS), and UNIX Shell Scripting Eight+ years in LINUX Five+ years in Perl Eight+ years with PHP with MySQL Apache/LINUX Web Development Eight+ years with APIS / UNEDIFACT (U.S. Customs, Canada Border Services Agency and CARICOM) manifests TypeB, AFTN, CDM messaging Documentation Cisco IOS Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery