Jim Moore currently serves as Vice President for Standards Activities, and Board of Governors with a term of 2001-2003.  Moore is a member of the IEEE Standards Board, chair of its Review Committee, and executive editor of the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge project. He is on the Management Board and Executive Committee of the Software Engineering Standards Committee (SESC). His book, Software Engineering Standards: A User's Road Map, was endorsed by SESC. Moore is chair of the US Technical Advisory Group for the International Standards Committee for Software Engineering.

Moore works as a senior principal engineer for the MITRE Corporation, a nonprofit company working in the public interest. Previously, he worked for IBM, where he was granted two patents.

Moore graduated with a BS in mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MS in systems and information science from Syracuse University.