Bobby Lombardi

Current

Senior Product Manager, Pro Tools Strategy at Digidesign, a division of Avid

Past

Senior Product Manager at Digidesign, a division of Avid
Developer Services Engineer at Digidesign, a division of Avid

Education

Stanford University
State University of New York Stony Brook
Royal Conservatory of Music in Liege, Belgium

Florida International University

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Industry

Consumer Electronics

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Bobby Lombardi’s Summary

• Experienced Senior Product Manager with a track record in bringing innovative hardware and software products to market in the consumer, pro audio, and post production studio markets

• Team Leader with a sharp focus on product strategy, new technologies, research and development, and new business opportunities

• Interested in bringing product development expertise and out of the box thinking to lead multimedia and new technology product development teams

Bobby Lombardi’s Specialties:

Product management, requirements definition, audio technology, competitive analysis, roadmap creation and presentation, product line management, agile product development methodologies, persona and user story creation, branding and identity, hardware and software development, third party development platforms, software development kits, team building, mergers and acquisitions, public speaking

Bobby Lombardi’s Experience

Senior Product Manager, Pro Tools Strategy

Digidesign, a division of Avid

(Public Company; AVID; Computer Software industry)

February 2009 — Present (6 months)
Senior Product Manager

Digidesign, a division of Avid

(Public Company; AVID; Computer Software industry)

January 2000 — January 2009 (9 years 1 month)

• Product Management Team Lead for Pro Tools hardware/software systems, including market requirements, and product definition
• Product Line Manager for all Digidesign signal processing algorithms (plug-ins) and audio compression codices, including research, roadmap creation, and product definition
• Product Manager for hardware and software copy protection, including client delivery of software licenses
• Product Management liaison for technology partners including DELL, Microsoft, and Intel
• Product strategy and roadmap presentations to executive staff, and roadmap disclosures to third party development partners
• Product line management and development of new products from acquired and licensed IP
• Product Managed Digidesign's entry into the guitar amp modeling market
• Public speaking at tradeshows, developer conferences, and community technology groups
• Management Development Training, 360 Feedback, SkillPath Seminars, and Cooper|U courses in Interaction Design
Developer Services Engineer

Digidesign, a division of Avid

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AVID; Computer Software industry)

February 1998 — January 2000 (2 years)

• Developer Support Engineer, assist third party software developers with application development
• Third Party Platform Evangelist, technical contact for third party developers, evangelize new development opportunities, assist in bringing new strategic developers to the Digidesign and Avid software and hardware platforms
• Authored and maintained Third Party Software Developer SDKs, including detailed APIs and code examples in C and C++

Bobby Lombardi’s Education

Stanford University

D.M.A.(ABD) , Music Composition , 1995 — 2000

• Taught and assisted courses in music pedagogy, music analysis, computer music research, and electronic music history

Activities and Societies:

CCRMA, Electronic Music, Computer Science
State University of New York Stony Brook

MA , Music Composition , September 1992 — June 1995

Activities and Societies:

Electronic Music, Music Theory and Composition
Royal Conservatory of Music in Liege, Belgium

Cert. Premier Prix , Music Composition , 1993 — 1994
Florida International University

BM , Music , September 1988 — June 1992

Activities and Societies:

Electronic Music, Art, Choral Conducting, Music Theory and Composition, Vocal Performance

Additional Information

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Bobby Lombardi’s Interests:

New technology, electronic music composition, music semiology, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, psychoacoustics, music classification, The Music Genome Project, snowboarding, analog synthesizers