Huxleymedia

Huxleymedia is mainly me. I use freelancers to fulfill work obligations when I get too busy, so I use "we" a lot. It's only fair that those who help get a mention too!

Jamie Kavanagh

Copywriter/Creative Director

I'm passionate about words, and communication is a big part of my life. I read a lot, especially on the internet and view it as my life’s work to improve the quality of what I see.

I have only ever had five jobs in my life before becoming a copywriter. I left school and began a bakery apprenticeship when I was sixteen, and qualified when I was twenty one.

After becoming disenchanted with the early mornings, I left and went to work for the UK Benefits Agency as a Visiting and Fraud Officer. This got me interested in social issues and people in general. It also taught me more about people in two years than the rest of my life until that time.

Then came a break, I moved town and got a job in a call centre for a company called Energis, a telecommunications provider. I soon worked my way up the ranks until I was qualified as an engineer and worked in the Network Operation Centre.

I learned lots of geeky stuff like how to maintain and repair Nortel Switches, Windows Servers, Cisco routers, switches and ICM. After five years of shift work I yearned for a job where I could work in daylight, and so it was time for a move.

"See the light."

I secured a role with Virgin Media assisting the launch of their Movies on Demand product. Finally I could work during the day with real people and have free time at the weekend!

I ended up writing more than I engineered, and my love of writing was finally realised. I worked as the Principal Engineer on this project for two years, until they wanted me to work in the dark again.

After that came Cable and Wireless, where I worked as a Support Engineer. I ended up spending more time teaching staff, writing training material and creating documentation than supporting anything, but by now I was loving it!

I studied copywriting and acquired an Advanced Copywriting Certificate, and decided to learn as much about writing as I could, while still holding down a job. I wrote everything from press releases, brochures, fault reports, training manuals, website copy and marketing material. I stayed in this role for nearly three years until, like many other IT jobs, it was outsourced.

"Going it alone."

So, out of a desire to go it alone, Huxleymedia was born. I enjoy the responsibility of making my own way, mixing creativity with business. My life experiences so far have combined to make me a resilient, technically astute, ambitious, knowledgeable person, which is serving me well.