Blair Dobbs

Experience

Senior Digital Producer (Video & Motion) — Varonis Systems

Cybersecurity SaaS · Remote · 2015 – 2026 (contractor from 2010)

• Product demos and explainers: Produced demos and explainer videos for every major Varonis product launch and update, translating complex security technology into clear, engaging video. Art-directed select flagship pieces made by outside agencies.
• Motion graphics and animation: Designed and animated trade show booth loops, content for large LED walls, social video, and paid ads, including animated versions of static ads for paid social testing.
• AI-assisted production: Integrated generative AI into everyday production, pairing image, video, and voice models (Veo, Kling, Nano Banana, ElevenLabs) with Photoshop, After Effects, and Logic Pro to create social, event, and internal video. Built “Spot the AI,” an interactive RSAC booth game using AI-cloned voices, AI video, and a vibe-coded iPad interface.
• Customer storytelling: Shaped unscripted customer and employee interviews into polished testimonial and recruitment videos, at first as a one-person crew handling camera, lighting, audio, editing, and motion graphics.
• Scaling production: Grew the program by hiring and briefing local crews nationwide with detailed camera and framing specs, producing shoots live over Zoom, and coaching interviewers to listen with an editor’s ear. Later built the motion templates and processes that let outside agencies take videos from raw footage to finished cuts.
• Team enablement: Rolled out Descript so non-editors could cut social and product video, built Canva and After Effects templates, led approval of an AI creative platform through Legal and IT, and trained colleagues in Premiere and Camtasia.
• Live and event video: Gave State of Cybercrime a broadcast-style look with intro credits, camera switching, and transitions, and produced livestreams and Sales Kickoff video.
• Voiceover: Served as the voice of Varonis on nearly every narrated video for fifteen years.

Owner/Producer — Ridgeline Studio (independent practice)

Washington, DC · 2009 – 2015

• Produced, shot, and edited video for IBM, the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, Varonis, ConnectYourCare, Alaska Wilderness League, and Save Darfur Coalition.
• Created 14 videos for Varonis, from kinetic-text product overviews to thought-leadership interviews and demos, earning 20,000+ YouTube views.
• Edited 14+ hours of unscripted employee footage into a cohesive video series for IBM’s Smarter Government campaign.

Multimedia Specialist — IBM (via PwC Consulting acquisition)

Washington, DC area · 1998 – 2009

Grew from the creative department’s technical support lead into one of its core video editors and motion designers. Titles included Digital Media Specialist, Multimedia Specialist, and Multimedia/Web Designer.

• Learned After Effects and Apple Motion to single-handedly create all motion graphics for IBM’s Education industry video.
• Editor, director of photography, and composer for a Public Sector leadership video series, praised as “a portfolio piece you can be proud to show at any broadcast station.”
• Produced, directed, shot, edited, and scored a 35-minute U.S. Postal Service training video distributed to contractors in all 50 states.
• Won video work that was headed to outside production houses. Clients left their vendors to work with the IBM internal creative team directly.
• Wrote 20+ original scores and voiced e-learning for the U.S. Army’s eArmyU, reaching 40,000+ soldier-students.

Earlier Experience

• Imaging & Technical Support, Sports Illustrated Photo Department — New York · 1997 – 1998
• Conductor, Calcutta Foundation Orchestra — Kolkata, India · 1996 – 1997
• Quality Assurance, Enteractive (interactive CD-ROMs) — Washington, DC · 1996

Education

• Master’s degree, Music Composition — American University, Washington, DC
• Bachelor’s degree, Music Composition — American University, Washington, DC