Alexander Svensson

☞ About Me:

I'm Alexander, a creative strategist from super school Hyper Island. I'm currently enjoying myself in London, doing cool and culturally relevant stuff at Protein. When I arrived I was really impressed by the campus. I love studying in this environment it’s beautiful. I’ve also been really impressed with the facilities here. The information available and assistance offered to students is phenomenal. For example, I visited the Library to enquire about a book I was interested in and they didn’t have it. The staff were really helpful and ordered me a copy. Within a week, they had bought the book and I was able to read it. You can really see and feel the effort that the staff put in to the teaching and learning process.

I’d say the best thing about Warwick is the opportunity to get a first class education. All of the modules I have studied on the MPA have been useful, relevant and interesting and I hope that this programme will help to facilitate the change in career direction that I am looking for, whether this be in a multilateral organisation or through starting my own business. I've decided to keep things easy here, after all I'm busy at work, so I uploaded my portfolio and resume as PDFs. Good thing about it, since they are PDFs, you can download them and save me forever on your hard drive. I would like that. also worked as an online journalist for NDR.de , the website of the North German Radio with my wife lissa. On the semantic field she blogs about media, network policy et cetera. Links accumulate to delicious, photos on Flickr, films on Vimeo.

☞ Skills

Discovering / articulating an insight
Ideas
Motivating a team
Getting shit done
People/trend-watching

☞ Interests:

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Beach 2015
Trying to write my first hit-song
Currently rediscovering my interests for
football
on and of the pitch #arsenal
Design (it dictates our lives)

☞ My Achievements:

As a Creative Strategist / Team Leader My role in this is to understand people, technology and how they affect each other. And to apply this knowledge, or the insights derived from it, on the projects we work with. I’m also in charge of our morning scrums and the agile management of some of our projects.

☞Past Experience

May 2015 - Current - layr
Forge, AMV BBDO, London
Creative Strategist / Team Leader
Innovation
November 2013 - May 2014
Forge, AMV BBDO, London
Creative Intern
Same as above. More of the free Doritos. Less

Responsibilities.

* June 2012 - November 2013

IKEA, Sweden

Sales Assistant

Democratic design is awesome. People not so much.

September 2011 - May 2012

LEON Restaurants, London

Barrista

I love coffee. And London.

June 2010 - September 2011

Oslo, Norway

Bike courier, fishmonger,

after-school assistant, rebel

☞ REFS

Entrepreneur; successful startup out of high school. Currently working on a couple of new ideas. i contributed to various Open_Access_Journals Journal Article (1) mit.edu (2015) Freebase: Then & Now, 5. In mit.edu 1 (1). mit.edu

Web library (2) adsabs.harvard.edu (2015) Community-based complex cloud data center, 5. In adsabs.harvard.edu.

Journal Article (1) DOI: 10.13140/2.1.3374.9281 In book: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Support: Publisher: Open Source in Academia ,pp.4 .