# Chris Winsor

> Director of Product Management - Pro Tools Software

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chriswinsor

Over 15 years of experience developing industry leading audio software for TV, film, and music production.

Pro Tools Projects of Note:
- Internal Renderer for Dolby Atmos® in Pro Tools
- Avid Video Engine
- Pro Tools and Media Composer Interoperability
- Cloud Collaboration
- I/O Setup
- Markers and Memory Locations
- Type-Ahead Search

Patents:
- Patent US 11,528,307 B2 (2022): Near Real-Time Collaboration for Media Production
- Patent US 11,232,787 B2 (2022): Phonetic Match and Waveform Alignment

## Work Experience
### Director of Product Management - Pro Tools Software @ Avid
Jan 2025 – Present
• Managing the Pro Tools software business, as well as a global team of 7 product owners to build a longterm roadmap and deliver on short term goals
• Working with product marketing on go-to-market strategy
• Building relationships and integrations with development partners

### Senior Principal Product Designer @ Avid
Jan 2018 – Jan 2025 | Berkeley, California, United States
Worked collaboratively across a range of users and stakeholders to build a product experiences that advances business goals, as well as the aesthetics and usability of the ProTools user experience.

### Quality Assurance Manager @ Avid
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley, California, United States
Oversaw entire Pro Tools test effort, with over 30 QA engineers, spanning multiple time zones,  while directly managing 6 U.S. employees

### Principal Product Designer @ Avid
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Berkeley, California, United States

### Scrum Master @ Avid
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Daly City, California, United States
Facilitated grooming, sprint planning, scrum, and velocity tracking

### Quality Assurance Engineer @ Avid
Jan 2008 – Jan 2013 | Daly City, California, United States
Developed and executed manual and automated test plans for Pro Tools feature development, as well as machine and OS compatibility


## Education
### BAS in Audio Engineering
Ex'pression College for Digital Arts

### AA in General Education
Santa Rosa Junior College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chris-winsor

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Last updated: 2026-04-13