David K. Ream, President

Mr. Ream is Leverage Technologies' chief consultant.  He has a B.S.'71 in Engineering and an M.S.'75 in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.  Mr. Ream has been working since 1973 with publishers in the areas of typesetting design and production, database creation, editorial systems, and electronic publication design and production.

One of Mr. Ream's earliest assignments (in the mid-seventies) involved creating custom programs to sort legal indexes into locator order and then back into alpha order.  Since then he has worked on many indexing, abstracting, and thesaurus projects and systems.  Currently, indexing projects center around integrating Indexing Research's CINDEX into corporate and governmental publishing operations including web applications.  LevTech also performs computer consulting and programming for editorial applications as well batch composition services.

Mr. Ream has presented at the annual and chapter meetings of the American Society of Indexers and published articles the Society's newsletter Keywords.