Jim competed in the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta Georgia, narrowly missing winning a medal with a sudden death overtime loss to Italy in the team epee event. He won a Silver medal in the 1995 Pan American Games as well as a Bronze medal in the 1991 Pan American Games. He fenced in three World Championships for the United States and was ranked in the top 10 of the US Fencing Association point standing for over 10 years. During that time, he won 5 Team National Championships and took the Silver Medal twice in the Individual National Championships. From 1990 until 1996, he was Chairman of the New York Athletic Club fencing program. He worked successfully in the position of the Director of High Performance of the US Fencing Association from March of 2007 through August of 2008. Jim became the head coach of the Stevens Institute of Technology Men’s Fencing Team 2012. He joined the Atlantic Fencing Academy in 2007. As a coach he has trained numerous fencers who have attained high rankings in the USFA point standings including at one point having three Women’s Epee fencers in the top 10 of the standings.