James E. Harvey is the founder and president of Media4theWorld, LLC, which provides management and technical consulting to the media industries. He is responsible for the edit and production of the Job Definition Format specification, and also serves as CIP4 Organization’s Executive Director. For eight years he was VP of Spectrum Operations at Graphic Communications Association (now IDEAlliance), a technical and management association for the print and Internet publishing industries. For eight years Harvey was also a Business Development Manager at Volt Information Sciences where he organized and pioneered document and data warehousing, SGML services and applications, CD-ROM publishing, hypermedia, and object-oriented document constructs. He has held numerous industry posts including VP & Board member of TAGA, Secretary and member of the Executive Committee of the Digital Ad Lab, Secretary of ANSI/PIMI IT2 (Densitometry), has authored or co-authored several key industry documents, and has spoken at over 100 industry events. Jim earned his M.S. in Business from John Hopkins University.