Video Director
& Producer
I'm a video director and producer with 15+ years of experience building production functions, originating formats, and delivering high-stakes content for large organizations.
I'm currently the in-house Video Production Manager at Viam, a software platform that acts as a harness for physical AI, letting developers write code for robots the same way they would for any other application. Across all of my work, I focus on producing more with less. I push AI workflows as far as they can go and make careful, strategic decisions about production workflows and equipment, so I can keep delivering striking, professional video with less overhead cost and less friction from end to end.
Before Viam, I spent six years building and running Datadog's video production function from the ground up, hiring and leading a six-person team and overseeing the full range of the company's video output across episodic, social, advertising, brand, event, and executive formats. Before that, I spent five years co-founding and running Behrmann Thomsen, a boutique production company in Emeryville. I got my start as an independent producer and cinematographer in the Bay Area, working across documentary, commercial, and branded formats.
Video
Production
Manager
At Viam I run the video function end to end. I manage the equipment and software tooling, film and edit, shoot photography as needed, and bring in outside vendors when a project calls for it.
I sit on the Product & Education team and split my time evenly between Education and Marketing. For Education, I'm building video coursework that teaches people how to use the platform. For Marketing, I produce event recap reels, social promos, and a steady stream of general video and photo assets.
Senior Group
Manager,
Video Production
In-house · New York, NY
I built Datadog's video production function from the ground up over six years, growing it into a six-person team responsible for the full range of the company's video output. That included a monthly product announcement series that ran 50+ episodes, same-day event recap videos at major conferences, live-action segments for the annual DASH keynote, advertising and demand generation content, brand and recruiting videos, and executive communications. The team also produced a high volume of short-form social content for LinkedIn and other platforms. Some examples are available on the Datadog Shorts channel.
The team partnered closely with Product Marketing, Demand Gen, Field Marketing, Events, and Advocacy to align video with the company's most important moments.
View the Datadog YouTube channel
Director,
Producer,
& Co-Founder
Boutique Production · Emeryville, CA
I co-founded Behrmann Thomsen in 2015 alongside Doug Thomsen. For five years we executed small to mid-sized productions for a wide range of clients across branded content, commercial work, PSAs, and editorial. I served as Director and Director of Photography across formats, led all client-facing creative work from pitch through delivery, and built a Bay Area production network that sustained five years of continuous work.
Clients included Microsoft, Amazon Prime Video, Condé Nast, Okta, and Arlo. The studio is still active today, now run by Doug. You can find the current work at bt.studio.
Producer,
Cinematographer,
& Editor
Freelance · San Francisco Bay Area
Before co-founding Behrmann Thomsen, I worked as an independent producer and cinematographer in the Bay Area. I was part of a loose collective of filmmakers operating out of a shared studio in San Francisco, where I took on direct clients across documentary, commercial, and branded formats while collaborating on a high-volume production slate for an online education platform. That period was an intensive education in production at pace, shooting and editing constantly across a wide range of formats and subject matter.
