Jay Ven Eman has been with Access Innovations since late 1978 and has been active in all aspects of its business. As overseer of Access's database production services, he was responsible for the design and conversion of large, legacy databases for a variety of government and commercial organizations. He writes, gives workshops, consults, and helps build large-scale, complex, information-rich databases. He has presented papers and workshops at ASIS&T, SLA, ASIDIC, InternetWorld, Online - London, AGSI - Netherlands, and many others. Before joining Access, he worked for the University of New Mexico at the Technology Applications Center, operated under a contract from NASA. He specialized in technology transfer and information dissemination of space technology to the commercial arena. He received his PhD in organizational behavior from the University of Colorado in Boulder.