Avid, Collaboration Architect

Bob Brown is a software architect at Avid, focusing on collaboration technologies. He helps lead the product and technology direction of Pro Tools, Media Composer, and other Avid products. He spends his time researching and prototyping various tools to help media creators work better together. Various technology interests include real time media streaming, asset management, cloud solutions, and user experience design.

Since joining Digidesign (a division of Avid) in 1999, Bob has worked on every Pro Tools release since version 5.0 and various Media Composer releases. In 2010, he took a break from developing software at Avid to join one of Yahoo's mobile software engineering teams to develop applications for Android and iOS. At Yahoo, he worked on the Yahoo Daily Digest and Livestand products. He rejoined Avid as a software architect focusing on collaboration technologies in early 2011. Follow Bob on Twitter: @BobBrownAvid