Jim returns to JAG full time after four years assisting the UCLA women's gymnastics program.  Jim was a part of two PAC 10 Championships and UCLA's 2010 National Championship Team.  That NCAA title was the program's sixth in UCLA women's gymnastics history.  He also worked with the UCLA staff to put Vanessa Zamarripa on the US National Gymnastics Team as the first currently enrolled NCAA student athlete to make the team in over 20 years.
Jim previously coached at All Olympians Gymnastics Center from 2002-04. He was also the co-head coach for the men's program at Premier Gymnastics Academy in Illinois. He has coached state, regional and national champions and helped coach former UCLA star Mohini Bhardwaj during her Olympic run in 2004.

As an UCLA student-athlete, Jim won the NCAA high bar championship and the MPSF parallel bars title as a sophomore in 1994. He was a two-time NCAA qualifier and an All-American on high bar. In 1994, he helped lead the Bruins to the MPSF team title, and in 1996, he was selected the USA Gymnastics Collegiate Athlete of the Year. On the national level, Jim was a three-year U.S. senior national team member (1997-00) and a member of the 1997 USA World Championship team and 1999 World University Games team. He also competed at the 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials.

Jim graduated from UCLA in 1997 with a degree in Political Science.