Jim Moore is a Senior Engineer at IBM's Federal Systems Company. He currently works on the ARPA STARS program where he served as IBM's technical lead in the founding of the ASSET library. He is a charter member of the RIG and serves as the chairman of its Executive Board. He holds BS and MS degrees from North Carolina and Syracuse, respectively and is a member of the IEEE Computing Society and the Association for Computing Machinery. He serves as a member of the Ada Federal Advisory Board and as a member of the U.S. delegation to ISO-IEC JTC1/SC22/WG9, the group responsible for Ada standardization.