Jim Hughes

Jim Hughes (jim.hughes@oasis-open.org) serves as Treasurer of the OASIS Board of Directors; his term extends to July 2012. Mr. Hughes is a Senior Standards Strategist in Microsoft's Corporate Interoperability and Standards Group (CISG). He is responsible for a variety of strategic standards activities at Microsoft, including the support of internal product development teams and representing Microsoft in various standards groups. Some of his current standards work includes active participation in the INCITS Executive Board (the US National Body for IT Standards); IEEE Standards Board (and subgroups) and IEEE/SA Corporate Advisory Group; and ISO/IEC JTC 1 (through the US Delegations). IMr. Hughes was previously employed at HP (standards), Fujitsu (standards and distributed computing), UniSoft (porting Unix to Motorola processor families), Amdahl (creating mainframe Unix) and IBM (MVS systems programming). He holds a BS in Applied Mathematics and an MS in Computer Science, both from the University of Colorado, Boulder.