Co-Founder and CEO at Atbrox
Trondheim Area, Norway
- Current
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- Co-Founder & CEO at Atbrox
- Past
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- PostDoc at NTNU
- Research Scientist at Fast Search & Transfer ASA
- PhD Candidate at NTNU
- Co-founder/CTO/Developer at Agentus AS
- University Lecturer at NTNU
- PhD Candidate at NTNU
- IT Trainee at Storebrand ASA
- IT Specialist at IBM Canada
- Education
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- Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
- NTNU
- Orkdal VGS
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Amund Tveit’s Summary
My goal is to discover and solve important problems with information technology.
Amund Tveit’s Specialties:
Cloud Computing and Search
Amund Tveit’s Experience
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Co-Founder & CEO
Atbrox
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2009 — Present (7 months)
Cloud Computing Consulting
Search Technology Development -
Engineering Manager
Google
(Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)
November 2008 — September 2009 (11 months)
- Nordic Market - maps and search quality
- Large-scale Production Monitoring Infrastructure (architect) -
Software Engineer
Google
(Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)
September 2005 — October 2008 (3 years 2 months)
- Nordic Market - maps and search quality (tech.lead)
- Mobile News for iPhone and iPod Touch (tech.lead/developer), http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/google-news-now-available-on-your.html
- Machine Translate Quality for NO,SE and DK (intern manager)
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/google-translate-adds-10-new-languages.html
- Cost Savings (researcher)
- Google News for Sweden and Denmark (intern manager) http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/google-news-in-scandinavia.html
- Software Infrastructure (developer) -
Chairman
Abiody AS
(Research industry)
September 2004 — August 2005 (1 year )
Data Mining consulting company.
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PostDoc
NTNU
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
February 2004 — August 2005 (1 year 7 months)
Text mining, medical/health informatics, detection of illness pathways from free-text computerized medical records
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Research Scientist
Fast Search & Transfer ASA
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
May 2004 — April 2005 (1 year )
part time - 20% - position in addition to post.doc.
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PhD Candidate
NTNU
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
February 2002 — January 2004 (2 years )
See http://amundtveit.info/publications for my research publications and PhD thesis
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Co-founder/CTO/Developer
Agentus AS
(Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2000 — January 2003 (2 years 6 months)
Developed browser-based predictive caching in cooperation with Mirror-Image Internet. Part time - 33% - in addition to PhD studies.
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University Lecturer
NTNU
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
August 2001 — January 2002 (6 months)
Taught "Distributed AI and Intelligent Agents" for approximately 50 students.
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PhD Candidate
NTNU
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
September 1999 — July 2001 (1 year 11 months)
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IT Trainee
Storebrand ASA
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; STB; Insurance industry)
January 1998 — June 1999 (1 year 6 months)
Worked on:
- Project lead for Storebrand Intranet
- Data mining for cost savings
- Developer for fund product forecasts and child insurance pricing
- Developer for sales systems for business insurance
- Took courses in project management, presentation techniques, knowledge management and insurance -
IT Specialist
IBM Canada
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1996 — June 1997 (1 year 1 month)
Consultant working on software development for large-scale solutions for the telecom industry in Canada:
- introduction of 1-888 tollfree number series for Stentor Alliance
- call center solutions for Bell Canada
Amund Tveit’s Education
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Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
PhD , Computer Science , 1999 — 2004
publications at http://amundtveit.info/publications/
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NTNU
MSc , Computer Science , September 1992 — December 1997
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Orkdal VGS
Additional Information
Amund Tveit’s Websites:
Amund Tveit’s Interests:
blogging, refurnishing, innovation, games, outdoors and skiing.
Amund Tveit’s Groups:
Abakus, Omega, NTNU Alumni, Start Alumni, ACM and IEEE, NVG
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The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees -
Google Alumni -
Cloud Computing -
Googlers & Xooglers -
Hadoop Users
Amund Tveit’s Honors:
Venture Cup Price, 2000
IBM Appreciation Award, 1996
Amund Tveit’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
