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During my time working in a position that failed to satisfy my creative interest, I realised it was time for a change and I had to be the one responsible to make it happen. Back in July 2017 I completed my course at Shillington Graphic Design school with a full printed portfolio ready to hit the creative industry. Following months of interviews and freelancing projects, I chose to accept the offer at MAG-O due to their creative work environment and for the chance to work with more autonomy. The training has been invaluable to my development; with only two months under my belt so far, I have learnt skills in writing for social media and presenting, as well as building upon my graphic design knowledge through plenty of interesting projects (both print and digital). After arranging some work experience at MAG-O last year, I was lucky enough to be picked as their new Media Intern out of a large pool of candidates to help manage their social media channels , as well

We caught up with Suzanne, who’s just joined MAG-O as a Solution Architect, to talk about her career journey. We started chatting about her previous experience and what attracted her to the role at MAG-O. ‘In my previous role I was an Implementation and Data Consultant working in the payments industry, so I have a good understanding of data management and ETL (extract, transform, load). I moved to this role as I wanted to use my cloud knowledge and influence the architecture and design of a product rather than helping clients onboard an in-house system’. We’re thrilled to welcome Suzanne’s skill set to our growing team at MAG-O. What makes MAG-O such an appealing company to work for? ‘The teams are really close, a lot like little families! Everyone is so nice, and we just get things done. We also have weekly show and tells which really help’. So how do we do things differently to help ideas flow within the team? ‘The teams use ‘spikes’ when mind mapping ide