Dr. Santosh S. Venkatraman Associate Professor of Business Info Systems College of Business Email: svenkatraman@tnstate.edu Telephone Number: (615) 963 7315

Dr. Santosh S. Venkatraman has a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from Texas A&M University, and is currently an Associate Professor of Business Information Systems at Tennessee State University. He has published a variety of papers in the Information Systems field in journals such as Information Systems; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics; Journal of Systems Management; Journal of International Information Management; and ACM Computer Personnel. His teaching and research interests include Electronic Commerce, Impact of Information Technology on Organizations, , Group Decision Support Systems, Strategic use of Information Systems, Computer Crimes, and Object Semantics in Database Management Systems.

As a part of his involvement with OBER projects, Dr. Venkatraman is involved in the design and development of the Resource Inventory for the United Way Community Needs Assessment Study. He is one of key contributors in developing this resource inventory and is primarily responsible for developing this Access database application and its corresponding web interface.