From 2002 until 2004, he served as president and chief executive officer of the Infotonics Technology Center Inc., an industry, academia, and government partnership to foster cutting-edge research, prototyping of new technology, and economic development in Upstate New York, with an operating budget of $15 million and a capital budget of $25 million in 2004.
Since the summer of 2005, Moore has been a consulting professor at Stanford University, where he has worked on its Center for Longevity to create an international, interdisciplinary research and teaching network focused on solving fundamental physical and social problems associated with extended life expectancy.
In 1993, Moore began a one-year appointment as Science Advisor to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia.
Moore is the founder and former president of Gradient Lens Corporation of Rochester, New York, the manufacturer of the Hawkeye boroscope.
Moore was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in February 1998 for the design and fabrication of optical systems and imaging lenses.