References

Oct 24, 2023 · 6 min read

Introduction

At least these 7 people have written recommendations to me in the past and more are available. Contact information is available on request.

Rolf Källman, The Swedish National Archives

“Mattias Axell has in 2016 been hired by Digisam as process manager for the creative event and hackathon Hack4Heritage, which was organized in collaboration with the Stockholm City Archives on 14-16 October 2016.

During the first half of 2016, Digisam hired Mattias as a consultant to do initial planning and develop the ideas for Hack4Heritage as a creative event and hack focusing on open cultural heritage data and other open cultural heritage resources.

Mattias was then hired as one of two process managers who, in close collaboration with the project manager, further developed the process and program for the entire event, including a previous workshop that brought together organizations that contributed data or other content to the event. Mattias’ inventiveness and willingness to always aim high has been both useful and inspiring, and with his pleasant and positive manner as well as good cooperation, he went well into the team.

During the event, Mattias was always on site and enthusiastically led the process forward, both from the stage and “from the floor” where all teams were gathered. Mattias’ competence to facilitate processes and motivate groups to work towards common goals was a strong contributing factor to Hack4Heritage being a very successful event.

We can warmly recommend Mattias for similar tasks and wish him good luck in the future.”

  • Rolf Källman Operations Manager Digisam (at the National Archives 2011-2016) as Mattias’ client at Hack4Heritage, 2016

Ellen Pettersson, Historical Hackathon

“I can highly recommend Mattias Axell. Mattias has during History Hack been involved in giving feedback and with co-facilitation of History Hack. With his calm manner, Mattias is good at collaborating, he is a determined networker and has the ability to create structure, set limits and take a natural place in the group. Mattias is independent, driven and the kind of guy you want to have in your team. Mattias is passionate about his core issues but is also listening, respectful and flexible. Mattias has several abilities and is therefore good at sensing the situation to complement with the type of initiative and competence needed at the moment. Mattias has good leadership qualities and is a person who is involved in building society and inspires and motivates people around him.”

  • Ellen Pettersson, Founder of the Historical Hackathon as Mattias’ client at the Historical Hackathon, 2016

Maria Jiborn, Municipality of Trelleborg

“During the History Hack event organized by Trelleborgs Museum 18-19 Aug. 2016 at STPLN in Malmö, Mattias Axell assisted the event’s process manager Ellen Pettersson. Mattias supported in a calm and confident way where needed in the planned program points and took in a natural and responsive way to situations that arose during the event. Mattias is knowledgeable and stable and a helpful and pleasant person who we at Trelleborgs Museum are very happy to recommend.”

  • Maria Jiborn, Museum educator at Trelleborgs Museum, as Mattias’ client at the Historical Hackathon, 2016

Mattias Goldmann, Fores

“To whom it may concern,

In November 2014, we hired Mattias Axell, who assisted us in developing our organization as part of his training with Kaospilot.

The specific assignment was to assist us in the process of developing measurable goals for the organization, which is not easy for a non-profit think tank.

In this work, Mattias has been a great help, and has contributed greatly to the fact that we have come further in a couple of weeks than we previously did in six years. His way of collecting and processing views and experiences from the group, his ability to capture the essence of what is happening in a workplace, and his way of leading our discussions, has been impressive. In addition to the actual assignment, Mattias has also contributed to the fact that several other organizational issues can now be handled in a better way than before, such as relations between different professions, and how we structure our meetings.

FORES was already a generally well-functioning workplace, and with Mattias’ efforts in recent weeks, we have gained very valuable tools to improve further. We warmly, wholeheartedly and unreservedly recommend Mattias for similar tasks and are at your disposal for further information.”

  • Mattias Goldmann, CEO at Fores Anna Halla, Chief Financial Officer and Development Strategist at Fores as Mattias’ client at Fores, 2014

Julius Paplauskas, Co-Creating Communities Lithuania

“First of all, what I noticed about you was your professionalism. On time, focused, helpful, calm, knowledgeable, prepared. And I think you hold a very interesting perspective on business and various aspects of it. Don’t lose it. Also, for me personally it was very easy to work with you, because I could connect on the human level.

  • Julius Paplauskas Co-Creating Communities Lithuania as a client of Co-Creating Communities Lithuania, 2014

Vandana Sharma, PostNord Sverige AB

“Mattias has performed his work with great commitment and also as a person and employee actively contributed to a developing and good teamwork within the unit.”

  • Vandana Sharma, Production Manager & Creative Coach Internal Communication at Region Stockholm North, Posten Meddelande AB, 2013

Beate Lindqvist and Monica Valenzuela, SAP AG

“Mr. Mattias Axell, born on October 18, 1992 in Gävle, Sweden, worked as a student trainee in the Suite Core On Premise Suite (OPS) Projects department of our company from June 21, 2010 through July 16, 2020.

His main tasks were:

- Evaluation of SAP Streamwork as Collaboration tool for agile teams for internal and external collaboration within projects (internal for project work and external for customer validation and interaction during the project tasks)
- Introduction of SAP Streamwork to the Quality Management Product Team and presentation of benefits and possible value for the team and project
- Transformation of Quality Management presentations into latest SAP layout for usage at events and customer meetings
- Support of product owner in terms of transforming specification requirements (from specification versions before LEAN introduction) into so-called backlog items and preparation of later project tasks
- Contact to SAP Streamwork development team to address feedback from product evaluation - from a non-SAP (Facebook) user perspective and also representing the team with their specific requirements 
- Contact to a sustainability champion to get further insights

We would like to thank Mr. Axell for his very effective cooperation and wish him success in his studies and in the future. Walldorf, July 16, 2010 SAP AG”

  • Beate Lindqvist and Monica Valenzuela Suite Core On Premise Suite (OPS) Projects that Mattias manages during internship at SAP Germany, 2010

The Swedish Defense Research Agency

“Mattias has during his time at FOI worked with the registration of images in the agency’s image database and also performed image editing and conversion of files between different image formats. Furthermore, Mattias has updated and edited pages on FOI’s intranet. During his work, Mattias has demonstrated good knowledge of software such as EpiServer and ImageVault.

Mattias Axell is extremely easy to work with and has shown personal maturity as well as initiative and humor.”

  • Anna-Lena Österborg, Head of Department, Research Support Division (2010)
  • Jessica Norlin, Acting Head of Division, Research Support Division (2009)
  • Mikael Sylvén, Head of Unit, Internal Services (2009 & 2010) at FOI (Swedish Defence Research Agency), 2009 & 2010