Steve Makofsky

Steve Makofsky

Senior Program Manager at Microsoft

Greater Seattle Area

Current
Past
Education
  • Northeastern University
Connections
287 connections
Industry
Computer Software
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Steve Makofsky’s Summary

Steve Makofsky’s Specialties:

C, C++, Objective-C, Java, C#, Javascript, PHP, HTML, PHP, XML, Mac, Windows, Unix, Linux, Embedded and Mobile (Android, Windows Mobile and iPhone).


Steve Makofsky’s Experience

  • Senior Program Manager

    Microsoft

    (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

    October 2009Present (2 months)

    Senior Program Manager on m.bing.com, m.msn.com and rich mobile clients.

  • Senior Software Architect

    BSQUARE

    (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

    April 2009October 2009 (7 months)

  • Chief Architect

    Yahoo!

    (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

    March 2007February 2009 (2 years )

    Chief Architect of the Technical Product and Strategy team where we evaluate and define technologies, products, and platforms, potential acquisitions, explore third-party partnerships, and connect the dots across the company. We advise the executive staff on technology and strategy direction.

    In addition, I helped open and staff the Yahoo! Bellevue (Seattle) office, defined the company-wide Web Service standard, created a solution to monetize our error traffic, built several frameworks and applications to leverage our data for mobile/embedded devices (including iPhone and Android), and helped create the recently announced Y!OS (Yahoo! Open Strategy).

    I am also a member of our Engineering Standards Group / Architecture Steering Council.

  • Software Design Engineer

    Microsoft, Corp

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

    April 2003February 2007 (3 years 11 months)

    Member of the Windows Platform Incubation team which was responsible for the development of Windows Calendar, Windows Sidebar and other projects that shipped in Windows Vista.

  • Software Architect

    BSQUARE Corp

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

    November 1997February 2003 (5 years 4 months)

    Responsible for the research and development of emerging technologies that were designed to run on Windows embedded and mobile platforms, including 'bUSEFUL' which was a suite of 10 utility applications, and was finalist in the “Best of Comdex” awards in 1998 and 1999 for “Best Utility”.

  • Software Engineer

    Adage US

    (Computer Software industry)

    19961997 (1 year )

    Architect of an HTML-based template server which allowed web browsers access to a proprietary document
    management system.

  • Software Engineer

    Symantec

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SYMC; Computer Software industry)

    19941996 (2 years )

    Managed a team of QA engineers on Enterprise Developer versions 1.0 thru 2.1, developed a high-level interface wrapper to the Winsock API and designed a high-level interface wrapper to VBX/OCX controls including support for Lotus VIM and MAPI.


Steve Makofsky’s Education

  • Northeastern University

    19891994


Additional Information

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Steve Makofsky’s Interests:

iPhone. Mobile. iPhone. iPhone. :)

Steve Makofsky’s Groups:

  •    Linked:Seattle
  •    Yahoo Employees
  •    Yahoo Employees and Alumni Group
  •    Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA)
  •    Cocoa and Cocoa Touch Developers
  •    Microsoft - Current and Former Employees
  •    BSQUARE Alumni Group

Steve Makofsky’s Honors:

- Nominated for the Yahoo! superstar award in both 2007 and 2008
- Lead 2 projects that both culminated in "Best of Comdex" awards in 1997, 1998


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