Drew Powers is a Principal Development Manager at Microsoft. He possess expertise in multiplayer, game development, c++, gameplay, ps3 and 17 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Drew Powers is a manager who inspires. I worked with Drew at Zynga Seattle on the Facebook game Puzzle Charms. I quickly got to know him as one of the most motivating Engineering Managers I’ve got to meet. In his team, he had a wide array of personalities to organize, assist, and direct. In those circumstances, I’ve seen managers motivate a few members of like minds, or moderately drive them all. But Drew’s team was energetic, collaborative, and highly skilled. Even when an engineer didn’t like the project, or its development, they never gave anything less than 100%. Frankly, I’ve found that rare, especially when the individuals have worked on a title for so long. However, this team really did care and love to work. I soon came to see that Drew was constantly challenging them to go outside their expertise while still making sure they worked on features they cared about. On top of this, errors were treated as a learning experience, not a calamity. Engineers walked away determined to not only prevent such errors in themselves but share their mistake for with others as an extra measure. I’ve got to say, what made this impressive wasn’t simply that the team stayed motivated. That Drew would make the time to treat each engineer with that level of respect and care despite the often incredible number of tasks he had to accomplish, plan, and track was simply humbling. I like to think I’ve walked away learning something from his management approach, in addition to a lot of respect for him. Hopefully, you’ll find his work just as rewarding." and "I cannot say enough positive things about Drew Powers. Top notice programmer who is easy to work with and understands the full spectrum of game development. I was lucky enough to work side by side with Drew implementing game play and animation systems and was impressed with the extent of his knowledge, self motivation, professionalism and eye for quality. If you ever need the best of the best Drew Powers is your man."