Steve Liffick

About Steve Liffick

Steve is a Vice President at Microsoft who over a 30-year career has held numerous roles leading the implementation, integration, growth, and operation of global-scale cloud services, service businesses, products, and platforms. Recent examples include the engineering and program management organizations responsible for Outlook.com, OneDrive, Microsoft Account, and Windows Store. Previously, Steve founded and grew MSN Messenger to 400M users and led the Hotmail product engineering team. ​Steve is currently working in Microsoft\'s Education product team leading the engineering effort to deliver education analytics and data services that build on and extend the Azure Analytics stack, Power Platform, and Office 365. In this role, Steve\'s objective is to put the power of Microsoft\'s cloud into the hands of students, educators, system leaders, and EDU ISVs through purpose-built and easy to use insights experiences, data services, and APIs. Steve led the formalization of Microsoft\'s Education strategy to serve Global Education customers by focusing explicitly on their core need: the improvement of education outcomes for all learners. His mission and purpose is to help Microsoft succeed in its mission and strategy to “empower every student on the planet to achieve more”.

Experience

1. Vice President Platform and Customer Services

   Microsoft

   Sep 2020 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

Education

• Harvard University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Biochemistry

  1985 — 1989

Skills

• Enterprise Software
• Agile Methodologies
• Program Management
• Saas
• Software Project Management
• Cloud Computing
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Strategic Partnerships
• Distributed Systems
• Scalability
• Product Management
• Software Engineering
• Start-Ups
• Software Design
• Software Development