For the last eight years, Jonathan McNamara has held the honor of telling the stories behind the digital experiences powered by WP Engine, a Word Press-focused managed web hosting company based in Austin, TX with offices across the globe. In 2015, Jonathan became the company’s first staff videographer, producing interviews with notable folks at industry events and augmenting the company’s social media campaigns and recruitment efforts. Jonathan’s previous experience as a radio show producer (and his halfway decent “radio voice”) earned him hosting duties for WP Engine’s webinar series. At SXSW 2018, he helped conceive and launch Velocitize Talks, an interview format YouTube show highlighting the intersection between open source technology and enterprise-level business. He would go on to produce hundreds of episodes of Velocitize Talks around the world, which involved packing as much gear as he could into an Amazon Basics suitcase and schlepping it to Australia, London, and various locales in the continental United States.With the onset of the global pandemic, Jonathan took the lead on video production for all of WP Engine’s in-person and live-streaming events, including the company’s annual “summits” and developer-focused “Decode” events. Between events Jonathan would produce customer-facing videos including advertisements and product tutorials to support product marketing efforts. Naturally, he would also make sure that internal events got the dash of video-based polish they deserved. Somewhere along the way, Jonathan also produced a music video. Unequivocally the best work Jonathan did at WP Engine was helping others to do their best work as a Lead Digital Marketing Content Producer managing the videography team. As part of the greater Creative Services Team (which served as WP Engine’s internal design agency for all intents and purposes) the video team took on the biggest, exclusively in-house produced projects in WP Engine history including a full-production ad campaign for WP Engine’s “Growth Suite” client management product, numerous feature overview videos, and customer testimonials. Jonathan also took time to mentor up-and-coming videographers from WP Engine’s customer experience department.