Ed Averett is a Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft. Colleagues describe them as "Ed is a smart and creative software engineer, who is able to work with highly complex teams to focus on features that will best delight customers and solve their biggest pain points. What stands out most for me about Ed, is how well is able to collaborate with multiple teams to get things done. I worked with him extensively in our development of Windows 7, one of the largest and most complex software products in the world. I was impressed by what he did - create innovative features to improve the Windows user experience, and "how" he did it, by being a great team player. "