About Jamie Andrei

Jamie Andrei

I am a guy, I love stuff, shiny things are great.

This era is great, things are possible which I only imagined in 1986.

I used to rush home after school to watch Monkey Magic, The Goodies & Doctor Who.

I don`t think my family had a VCR yet. I had read & dreamed about one, & imagined that there should be one with a TV guide front end that allowed you to scroll though & play the show you wanted when you you wanted (we now call this VOD which is still 5 years away or so (pending the NBN roll out)).

I love technology & am interested where traditional media meets the emerging ICT trends. It is a time where the gap between imagination & reality has blurred. What will the next 10 years hold when our children get hold of the steering wheel?

I remember making my 1st website in 1998 which featured an embedded video; that’s still pretty cutting edge these days looking at some sites out there on the internets.

I have a passion for new ideas, business opportunities and have a fascination with knowing what makes great entrepreneurs & business people tick. I want to know all the secrets of bringing a vibrant business to life, and keeping it at the top.

I have created/shot/directed/edited video, web & multimedia as an independant producer since around 1998, it’s just great fun; I do also believe in the old adage “never trust a thin chef” . I have a passion for building relationships, commercial deals & problem solving.

I am experienced in the TV industry having worked at one80Digital Post (some client account examples) and NBN Television as a Business Development Manager (A PBL Media owned company) working on long form TV content, distribution, marketing and client relationships for sport and event production. I also have experience advertising agency side in radio, scripts, copy writing, media buying/scheduling, campaign activation, SMS, DM, and TVC commercial concepts & production.

I have also worked at several top Australian’s digital agencies including Next Digital, Visual Jazz (part of Aegis Media) delivering work from Australia and abroad. Also folded into my experience is a range of consulting/contract work with a variety of vendors. I am also a founder of www.jobcrunch.com.au a site designed to help Australian’s bounce back from the economic stresses of the GFC.

I have also been working closely for Hannover Fairs Australia (for the last 4 years), on their CeBIT Sydney online video content, managed their event production team and produced TVC promotional materials.

I am open to inquiries should you need a hand with any corporate communication work, video production, distribution (I have some quality TV contacts still), pitches, collaboration or any digital work; I am always up for a chat.

I will post when I can, feel free to interact, link, comment, share & contact me with any enquiries.

We live in amazing times.

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About the Author

Jamie is passionate about people, business and technology. He works at Next Digital one of Australia's big 5 full service digital agencies across a range of SMEs to large ASX listed companies. He is an Account Director with a wealth of experience and enjoys mountain biking, Muay Thai/BJJ, reading, business thinking and technology.

Theresa M

Posted June 4, 2007 at 2:50 PM

Hi there Jamie,

I raced home (actually slow bus trip) to watch The Goodies.
I remember the idea of a phone where you could see each other being so incredibly disbelievable… And, here they are! Mind you, those were the days when 1999 seemed so far away

anyway, enjoy your uni break!
BTW thanks for the link – have saved thegooglestory for another day
xT

The Cass

Posted June 14, 2007 at 7:51 AM

Hey! I’m recently ex-Newcastle and was very keen to see some footage and pics of the flood, especially places I knew like Newy West. A mate sent me this link and I just wanted to say good job and thankyou very much for posting the footage you took in the flood; it is fantastic – the best I’ve seen! Cheers

Ingrid Meijer

Posted June 16, 2007 at 12:55 AM

Hi Jamie; I stumbled onto this blog looking for pics of the floods. Maybe you remember me?? My daughter went to school with you! I’m now living in Queensland and will keep your blog on my favorites. It’s good to see you are doing great and are successful at what you are doing!! Always wondered what happened to the old crew who I used to ferry around and who used to hang around my house.

Felicity

Posted June 22, 2007 at 11:57 PM

Hi Jamie… I am now living here in Florida, USA and just found out about storm that hit my home town of Toronto and Coal Point (where I grew up)… It was sad to see such damage… my brother got quiet a bit of damage at his house in Blackalls Park. I was trying to remember the last time I saw this type of storm… I have seen a few and the earthquake of course but NOTHING like this. I intend on keeping an eye on your site as it can be hard to find news about Australia on TV over here in the US… Don’t be a stranger… any news of home would be great. Felicity
http://travellinfar.blogspot.com/ (another site in the works)

Gordon Whitehead

Posted July 3, 2007 at 2:34 AM

Fancy submitting news articles to Hunter’s Best? The Hunter’s first citizen powered media channel.

We are looking for citizen media reporters to submit video and written news articles from around the Hunter Valley.

Julie Christie

Posted July 31, 2007 at 4:47 AM

Hi Jamie,
Lake Macquarie City Library is collecting all material relating to the June 2007 storm. We would like a copy of your video Newcastle flood damage West Lake Area for our local history collection. If this is possible let me know.