Amund Tveit

Current

Co-Founder & CEO at Atbrox

Past

Engineering Manager at Google
Software Engineer at Google
Chairman at Abiody AS

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

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Education

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

Co-Founder & CEO

Atbrox

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2009 — Present (3 months)
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
PhD Candidate

NTNU

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

September 1999 — July 2001 (1 year 11 months)
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

Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet

PhD , Computer Science , 1999 — 2004

publications at http://amundtveit.info/publications/
NTNU

MSc , Computer Science , September 1992 — December 1997
Orkdal VGS