Steve James
Counsel at Offshoot Legal
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve James is a startup-focused counsel with 11 years of experience guiding founders and venture-backed companies through financings, exits, and complex corporate matters. He has practiced both in-house at a Fortune 500 investments arm and at top-tier and boutique firms, negotiating VC financings, M&A, and serving as outside GC to numerous high-growth companies. Comfortable at the intersection of law and technology, he leverages modern tech and AI in his practice to streamline transactions and risk management. Before law he studied economics and worked as a chemical engineer and project manager, which informs a pragmatic, data-driven approach to deal structuring. A part-time software hobbyist and open-source contributor, he has improved front-end UX and performance on notable projects like the jQuery UI MultiSelect widget. Based in the United States, he combines transactional depth with interdisciplinary technical fluency that helps founders move quickly and smartly.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Economics at Iowa State UniversityJuris Doctor, Law, Juris Doctor, Law at University of Iowa
English
Github Skills (10)
web-widgets10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
jquery10
ui-design10
widgets10
interface-design9
css9
user-interface9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ehynds/jquery-ui-multiselect-widget
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
jQuery UI MultiSelect widget
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 54 PRs, 328 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Steve focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the jQuery UI MultiSelect widget. They implemented several improvements, including eliminating unnecessary function calls for performance optimization and swapping deprecated jQuery API calls with modern equivalents. The user also refactored the code to eliminate a "multiple" option, and added new features such as improving options for header text/links and adding Flip All functionality. They were responsible for improving the dimensions, text wrapping, and other visual elements of the widget.
jquery-uimultiselect
SteveTheTechie/inlinesave
Jan 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
inlineckeditorplugin
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