Steve Makofsky

Current

Senior Program Manager at Microsoft

Past

Senior Software Architect at BSQUARE
Chief Architect at Yahoo!
Software Design Engineer at Microsoft, Corp

Software Architect at BSQUARE Corp
Software Engineer at Adage US
Software Engineer at Symantec

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Education

Northeastern University

Recommended

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Connections

287 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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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 2009 — Present (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 2009 — October 2009 (7 months)
Chief Architect

Yahoo!

(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

March 2007 — February 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 2003 — February 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 1997 — February 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)

1996 — 1997 (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)

1994 — 1996 (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.