Max Anton Filipsson

Contact
Information

1850 Commonwealth Avenue

Boston, MA, 02135
United States

Mobile: (+1) 617 755 6587

mfilip@bu.edu
Website: maxfilipsson.com

Professional
Experience

Boston University

Oct. 2015 to April 2016

Research Assistant
A part-time job for Professor Dick Lehr of Boston University. I helped the research on
his in-progress book. My duties included archival research, transcription of handwritten
diaries, and finding living relatives of historical people of note.
Forex BANK, Sweden

Oct. 2014 to Jan 2015

Bank Teller
The job is primarily to sell the products of the bank. This includes bank accounts,
credit cards, loans, and foreign currency. Further duties involve the administration of
the store, such as accounting.
JM AB, Sweden

July 2011 to Aug 2011

Administrative Assistant
Work consisted primarily of migrating logs, archives, and forms to a new data storage
system, as well as general paper archiving.
AstraZeneca AB, Sweden

July 2009 to Aug 2009

Assistant
The tasks were initially to help out with archiving over the summer. Eventually duties
were shifted into designing new webpages and migrating old information onto the new
ones.
Johnssons Fastighetsservice, Sweden

Jul 2007 to Aug 2007

Property carekater
Duties involved lawn mowing, cleaning, and general building maintenance.
Education

Trinity College, Dublin University, Ireland

2010 - 2014

B.A. (Hons) Philosophy and Political Science

Dissertation: The Obama Administration and the Just War: A look at Syria
The dual degree taught methods and tools for both subjects, with a focus on qualitative
political science.
S:ta Ragnhildgymnasiet, Sweden

2007 - 2010

Natural Science & Languages

Graduated with a grade average of 19.2/20.
Extracurricular
experiences

DU Gamers, Ireland

2012 to 2013

Chair
As a chair of the oldest gaming association in Ireland, duties involved running weekly
events, including multiple events with 30 participants. The community grew by 25% to
200 members during my tenure. Also noted for smoothly managing a forced merger of
society space with the Science Fiction society.

Leprecon 32, Ireland

2012

Treasurer and Staff Director

I had to staff and budget the oldest gaming convention in Ireland, attended by 150
people with a revenue of EUR 3000. I was the first treasurer in four years to make the
convention break even.
DU Gamers, Ireland

2012 to 2013

Treasurer
As treasurer of DU Gamers, I was responsible for overlooking the budget for the year,
as well as all purchases and bookings of events of trips the society undertook.
Model United Nations, L
ubeck, Germany
2010
MUN is a simulation of the United Nations and its proceedings, intended for students ranging
from secondary school and up.
Head of the delegation of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea
I received money to attend as leader of the delegation, and was later awarded a prize
for excellence in Civics for my performance. As leader I represented the country in the
plenary meetings and the committee for defense. I was also called upon to defend the
countrys nuclear program in front of the Security Council.
Computer skills

Office skills: Word, Excel, Powerpoint

Operating Systems: Windows (experienced), OSX (experienced), Linux (beginner)
Programming Languages: HMTL (familiarity with), R (familiarity with), C++ (beginner)

Languages

English Fluent, IELTS score 8.5

Swedish native
Spanish B2
German A1

General interests

Academic: I am very interested in international politics and relations.

Travels: Austria, Australia, Brazil, Spain, Greece, France, United States, Thailand,
United Arab Emirates, Germany, Switzerland
Sports: HEMA, Fencing, Tennis, Boxing